{"id":751,"date":"2007-06-28T09:57:35","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T01:57:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/non-sinitic-state-of-yue-spp-176\/"},"modified":"2007-06-28T09:57:35","modified_gmt":"2007-06-28T01:57:35","slug":"non-sinitic-state-of-yue-spp-176","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/non-sinitic-state-of-yue-spp-176\/","title":{"rendered":"non-sinitic state of Yue: SPP 176"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sino-platonic.org\/\"><em>Sino-Platonic Papers<\/em><\/a> has released a completely <em>new<\/em> issue (not something from its archives): &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sino-platonic.org\/complete\/spp176_history_of_yue.html\">The Submerged History of Yue<\/a>,&#8221; by Eric Henry of the University of North Carolina. <\/p>\n<p>This work uses passages in early Chinese texts, archeological findings, and comparative historical legend to build up a picture of the history and culture of the ancient state of Yue, located in the Mount Guiji area of present-day Zhejiang province. The article stresses the non-sinitic nature of this state and shows that it continued to exist in Southeast China long after the supposed date of its destruction. <\/p>\n<p>The article is divided into the following sections: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Distinctiveness of Yue <\/li>\n<li>Material Remains <\/li>\n<li>Chronology, Kinglists, and Survival <\/li>\n<li>Language and Folklore <\/li>\n<li>The Genesis of the Legend of Xi Shi <\/li>\n<li>Conclusion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is followed by two appendices and a photograph of the tomb of a Yue king.<\/p>\n<p>The work is also available as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sino-platonic.org\/complete\/spp176_history_of_yue.pdf\">PDF<\/a> (1 MB).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a bit of linguistic information: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It can also be deduced from surviving cultural and linguistic hints that the Yu&egrave; language belonged to the Austroasiatic family, which includes, among its modern members, Vietnamese, <span class=\"py\">M&#432;&#7901;ng<\/span>, Chrau,Bahnar, Katu, Gua, Hre, Bonan, Brou, Mon, and Khmer, or Cambodian. In spite of the scantiness of surviving ancient evidence,<a href=\"http:\/\/people.cornell.edu\/pages\/tm17\/res\/austroasiatics.pdf\"> Jerry Norman and Tsu Lin Mei, in a 1976 article<\/a>, were able to demonstrate, based on ancient references to Yue words and dialectal survivals of non-sinitic words in the <span class=\"py\">M&#464;n<\/span> dialects of F&uacute;ji&agrave;n, ten cases of words cognate with modern Vietnamese that were current in the Yu&egrave; cultural area in ancient times.*<\/p>\n<p>* <span class=\"py\">The modern Vietnamese words for which Norman and Mei demonstrate the existence of ancient southeast coastal cognates are: ch&#7871;t (to die), ch&oacute; (dog), &#273;&#7891;ng (shaman), con (offspring), &#273;&#7857;m (moist, soaked), sam (crab), bi&#7871;t (to know), b&#7885;t (scum, froth), b&egrave;o (duckweed), and k&egrave; (type of small fish).<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sino-Platonic Papers has released a completely new issue (not something from its archives): &#8220;The Submerged History of Yue,&#8221; by Eric Henry of the University of North Carolina. This work uses passages in early Chinese texts, archeological findings, and comparative historical &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/non-sinitic-state-of-yue-spp-176\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,28,95,128,117,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-languages","category-linguistics","category-sino-platonic-papers","category-vietnamese","category-zhejiang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}