英文摘要 |
Zhao-an dialect of Hakka was once spread widely all around Taiwan in Ch'ing Dynasty. Most of the villages speaking this tongue have gradually been extinct nowadays, and the well-known residues lie on both Tao-yuan and Yun-lin Counties, which attracts many linguists to conduct their research there. However, Zhao-an speakers in Zhuang-wei Township, Yi-lan County have never been noticed until discovered by a senior local press. The author had investigated there since 2005 to 2007, established its sound inventory through the survey charts of Chinese characters and daily vocabularies. Following the phonological framework of ancient Chinese, and also by making comparisons among related dialects, we unveiled remarkable unique features of Zhuang-wei. Some of them are relatively conservative, keeping the same form as in Zhao-an County, Fu-jian Province; different from the speakers in Yun-lin. Meanwhile, parts of the features are innovative, both phonologically and morphologically, but not overwhelmingly influenced by the dominant local dialect of Southern Min. It is heuristic when Zhuang-wei acts differently from related dialects in division III and IV words of shan rhyme-group. Finally, a brief sketch is made on the language use of those Zhao-an speakers in the whole Yi-lan County. |