Southern Sui: A fourth Sui dialect

Castro, Andy (康蔼德). 2011. Southern Sui: A fourth Sui dialect [水语南部土语：水语的第四个土语]. Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society 4(2). 1-31. http://www.jseals.org/JSEALS-4-2.pdf.

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This paper present a historical comparison of previously published Sui dialect data with new data collected by the author, using Thursgood's(1988) Proto-Kam-Sui (PKS) and data from Kam varieties to track phonemic innovations.Shared innovation indicate that Southern Sui varieties from a distinct dialect cluster, referred to here as "Southern Sui". Interestingly, and surely not coincidentally, the geographical area covered by Southern Sui largely corresponds with the homeland of a subset of Sui people who celebrate the 'Mao' festival instead of the 'Duan' New year festival celebrated by almost all other Sui.