The influence of final consonants on
some Vietnamese tones spoken in
Udon Thani province, Thailand
Songgot Paanchiangwong
Ph.D candidate
Faculty of Linguistics and Vietnamese study
University of Social Sciences and Humanities
Hanoi National University, Vietnam
Songgot_p@yahoo.com
Aim of this paper
To find out the dialect of Vietnamese spoken
in Udon Thani province, Thailand
Introduction to Udon Thani province
Introduction to Vietnamese immigrants in
Udon Thani province, Thailand
The Vietnamese immigrants call themselves as
“Việt kiều”.
Old Vietnamese immigrants “Việt kiều cũ”
New Vietnamese immigrants “Việt kiều mới”
The old Vietnamese immigrants
“Việt kiều cũ”
Since 1656 – 1688
Until 1824 - 1910
The new Vietnamese immigrants
“Việt kiều mới”
During World War II
(around 1945)
Proportion of Vietnamese immigrants
in Udon Thani, Thailand
Hypothesis of this paper
Therefore most of Vietnamese immigrants in
Udon Thani came from the Central of Vietnam,
the Vietnamese spoken in Udon thani should be
Central dialect.
Findings
1. There are 6 tones.
2. Two groups of final consonants which influence on
some tones;
2.1 Nasal; / m /, / n /, / ŋ /.
2.2 Voiceless Stop; / p /, / t /, / k /.
3. Three tones are influenced by those final consonants.
They are:
3.1 Tone “Ngã”
3.2 Tone “Sắc”
3.3 Tone “Nặng”
4. Others tone can be pronounced as the same in
Vietnam
1. Nasal influences on tone “Ngã”
(A) “Ngã” with others
(B) “Ngã” with Nasal
400-
400-
300-
300-
200-
100-
“rõ”
“ngữ”
“rỗi”
200-
“dưỡng”
“nhiễm”
“nhẫn”
100-
2. Voiceless Stop influences on tone “Sắc”
(A) “Sắc” with others
(B) “Sắc” with Voiceless stop
400-
400-
300-
300-
200-
100-
“có”
“đến”
“miếng”
200-
100-
“chất”
“lắp”
“óc”
3. Voiceless Stop influences on tone “Nặng”
(A) “Nặng” with others
(B) “Nặng” with Voiceless stop
400-
400-
300-
300-
200-
200-
100-
“lạo xạo”
“phụ”
“đội”
100-
“mặt”
“dục”
“lập”
By comparison with the works of
“Đoàn Thiện Thuật”
and
“Hoàng Thị Châu”
The comparison of tone “Ngã”
Vnm in Udon Thani
Hanoi dialect
400-
400-
(A)
(B)
(A)
300-
300-
200-
200-
100-
100-
(B)
The comparison of tone “Sắc”
Vnm in Udon Thani
400-
(B)
Hanoi dialect
(A)
400-
300-
300-
200-
200-
100-
100-
(B)
(A)
The comparison of tone “Nặng”
Vnm in Udon Thani
Hanoi dialect
400-
400-
300-
300-
200-
200-
(B)
100-
(A)
(B)
100-
(A)
Conclusion
The Vietnamese tone spoken in Udon Thani, Thailand,
has characteristic as below:
there are 6 tones as the North Vietnamese.
tone “Ngã”, “Sắc”, “Nặng” are the same
pronunciation as in Hanoi dialect.
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