The primary purpose of this work is to undertake a comparative phonological reconstruction for the Gàn dialects. To this end the traditional comparative method is applied, and the reconstructed common
This book represents data collected over many years of hearing and speaking the Nanwang Puyuma dialect, spoken in the southeastern part of Taiwan with an emphasis on the sorts of intimate details of e
The ’Phags-pa script represents one of the ancient scripts not only of Mongols but also of many oriental nations. When Khubilai Khan set up a great empire of Yuan dynasty in the 13th century, it compr
