On the problem of the Proto-Mande homeland
On the problem of the Proto-Mande homeland
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关于原始曼德家园问题
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2009
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V. Valentin
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作者：
V. Valentin
在处理曼德语系(尼日尔-刚果语系)的内部分类时，很容易将短程语群挑出来；主要问题涉及内部分类的中级阶段。本文提出了这种分类的新版本。这是它第一次基于标准的Swadesh 100单词列表。词汇统计数据随后将面临古气候学和考古学的证据。我的结论是，说原曼德语的人很可能生活在公元四千年后半叶左右的南撒哈拉，在西经3°到12°之间，北纬16°甚至18°。通过对文化词汇的分析，这一假设得到了支持，这些词汇可以被认为是可以被重构为原始曼德语的。
When dealing with the internal classification of the Mande language family (Niger-Congo phylum), short-range groups can be singled out easily; the main problem concerns mid-range stages of the internal classification. The present article suggests a new version of such a classification. For the first time, it is based on the standard Swadesh 100-word list. Lexicostatistical data are then confronted with the evidence of paleoclimatology and archaeology. I conclude that speakers of Proto-Mande most probably lived around the second half of the 4 millennium in Southern Sahara, somewhere between 3° and 12° Western longitude, to the North of the 16° or even 18° latitude. This hypothesis is supported through analysis of the cultural vocabulary that can presumably be reconstructed for the Proto-Mande language.