From ancient Cham to modern dialects [electronic resource] : two thousand years of language contact and change / Graham Thurgood.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-394) and indexes.

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Chamic convergence with Southeast Asia -- The general tendencies: A broad overview -- Previous work on Chamic reconstruction -- The degree of adjustment -- The Geographical and Historical Setting -- The geographical setting -- Chamic prehistory -- Chamic history -- The Chamic and MK languages in Vietnam -- Classification of the Chamic Languages -- The place of Chamic within Austronesian -- Malayo-Chamic and broader affiliations -- The Malayo-Chamic subgroup -- Within the Chamic languages: A sketch -- Acehnese, a Chamic language -- A digression on Moken, a non-Chamic language -- Altering the Basic Word: From Disyllabic to Monosyllabic -- The iambic syllable: Early Mon-Khmer influence -- The loss of the vowel before medial -h- -- Disyllables with liquids] monosyllables and clusters -- Loss of the unstressed initial syllable -- Chamic Consonants -- Presyllable consonants: The details -- Main syllable onset consonants -- Consonant clusters -- Word-final consonants -- Chamic Vowels -- The literature -- The PC presyllable vowels -- The inherited PC main syllable vowels -- The borrowed PC main syllable vowels -- PC vowel length -- The main syllable vowels summarized -- Nasals and Nasalization -- Nasalization in PC -- Nasalization in Chru -- Nasalization in Haroi -- Nasalization in Cham -- Nasalization in Tsat -- Nasalization in Northern Roglai -- Nasalization in Acehnese -- The Origins of Registers and Tones -- Western Cham and the development of register -- Phan Rang Cham, an incipient tone system.

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