Japanese Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
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Volume 7, Issue 3
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  • Linguistic Position of Bulinese (South Halmahera) in the Malayo-Polynesian Languages
    Osamu Sakiyama
    1969 Volume 7 Issue 3 Pages 274-292
    Published: December 27, 1969
    Released on J-STAGE: June 06, 2019
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20495/tak.7.3_274
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     Although the languages of South Halmahera in Indonesia have usually been classified into the South-Halmahera-West New Guinea group of the Indonesian languages, it was not based on the reliable comparative investigation. For the purpose of determining the genealogical relationship of these languages, by comparing Bulinese, whose Wordlist (1940) and Grammar (1951) were published by the missionary Maan, with Dempwolff's reconstructed Proto-Austronesian phonemes (1938), the author is come to a conclusion that Bulinese is a <<langue à double couche>> in which the Polynesian elements form the substratum on which the Indonesian elements superimposed. Considering Dempwolff's suggestion that the Polynesian languages differ from the others in point of the unificatoin of Proto-Austronesian l and ḷ with d and ḍ, the Polynesian elements in Bulinese come out as follows : *lima^(>lim "five", *ḷabu^("fringe">lapo "hem", *dəŋəɤ>loŋa "to hear", *ḍaləm>lolo "interior". But on the one side : laŋit>laŋit "sky", ḷamay>rame "to be lively", dagaŋ "foreign merchant">dagan "to trade", *ḍayuŋ>dau "to row". It is evident that the latter phonemic changes prove the new Indonesian elements.
     On the grammatical phenomenon as well, especially on the usage of possessive pronouns, Bulinese seems to maintain the Polynesian feature. Though in Bulinese there exist three types of possessive pronouns, two of them are made by personal morphemes+genitive particles ni and na : yanik ^(eba^(i "my house", yanak piŋe "my rice". Such construction as uses genitive particles would not be observed either in the Indonesian languages or in the Melanesian languages. These ni and na seem to be equivalent to the Polynesian genitive particles ο and α from the point of view of its function.
     Probably being affected also by the so called non-Austronesian languages of North Halmahera, Bulinese has been formed through such interactions between the above-mentioned two languages.
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  • Topographical Analysis of the Southern Basin of the Central Plain, Thailand
    Yoshikazu Takaya
    1969 Volume 7 Issue 3 Pages 293-300
    Published: December 27, 1969
    Released on J-STAGE: June 06, 2019
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20495/tak.7.3_293
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     The Central plain, which develops along the middle and lower reaches of the Chao Phraya, is a strip of land 500 km long, north to south, and 100 km wide. It is topographically divided into three parts; the Northern basin, the Nakhon Sawan area, and the Southern basin. The Northern basin coincides with the drainage basin of the three big tributaries into the Chao Phraya; the Ping, the Yom and the Nan, and has an elevation ranging approximately from 25 to 100 m. In the Nakhon Sawan area three big tributaries join together to form the trunk river of the Chao Phraya, which passes through a narrow valley to the point where the first distributary splits this trunk river. The Southern basin is ocassionally called the deltaic plain and is characterized by flat low lying land less than 15 m above sea level and well developed distributaries of the Chao Phraya, such as the Suphan Buri and the Noi. In this paper topographic characteristics and the geohistory of the Southern basin are discussed.
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  • Rice Culture in the Central Plain of Thailand (III)
    A Review of Rice Experiments in Thailand
    Hayao Fukui
    1969 Volume 7 Issue 3 Pages 301-333
    Published: December 27, 1969
    Released on J-STAGE: June 06, 2019
    DOIhttps://doi.org/10.20495/tak.7.3_301
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