Jiuzhen (Vietnamese: Cửu Chân, Chinese : 九真) was a Chinese commandery within Jiaozhou . It is located in present-day Thanh Hóa Province , Vietnam .
6-576: Michel Ferlus (2012) and Frédéric Pain (2020) propose that 九真 Old Chinese * kuˀ-cin transcribed * k.cin , a local autonym which is reflected in Puoc ksiːŋ muːl & Thavung ktiːŋ² meaning "human being, people". Both ksiːŋ and ktiːŋ² are from Proto-Vietic * kciːŋ , which consists of prefix * k- and root * ciɲ (“leg, foot”); thus, "human beings" are "(those who are) on foot", "those who stand on their feet." Pain further suggests that " Cửu Chân might therefore have been inhabited by some ancestors of
12-568: A teacher from 1961 to 1968. This allowed him to do fieldwork on languages of Laos , including Hmong and Yao (Hmong-Mien family), Khmu/Khamou and Lamet (Austroasiatic/Mon-Khmer), as well as Phu Noi/Phou-Noy (Sino-Tibetan). He became a researcher at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in 1968. He mainly did fieldwork in Thailand and Burma (Myanmar) in the 1980s, studying Wa, Lawa, Palaung, Mon and Nyah Kur; in Vietnam and Laos in
18-621: The 1990s, studying Viet-Muong (also known as Vietic ) languages, and the Tai languages and writing systems of northern and central areas of Vietnam , including the Lai Pao writing system of Vietnam, which was close to falling into oblivion. He has published extensively about his findings on numerous languages of Laos, Thailand, Burma/Myanmar, and Vietnam, in journals such as Mon-Khmer Studies , Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale , and Diachronica . Michel Ferlus's main discoveries relate to
24-708: The Southern Vietic Thavung - Aheu." In 111 BC, Jiuzhen was formed after the Han conquest of Nanyue . In 157, Chu Đạt rebelled in Jiuzhen and was defeated. In 377, Li Xun seized Jiuzhen. This article related to the history of China is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to the history of Vietnam or its predecessor states is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Michel Ferlus Michel Ferlus ( French: [miʃɛl fɛʁlys] ; 1935–2024)
30-399: The effects of monosyllabicization on the phonological structure of Southeast Asian languages. Tonogenesis (the development of lexical tones), registrogenesis (the development of lexically contrastive phonation-type registers), the evolution of vowel systems all partake in a general ( panchronic ) model of evolution. Phenomena such as the spirantization of medial obstruents, which resulted in
36-709: Was a French linguist who specialized in the historical phonology of languages of Southeast Asia . In addition to phonological systems, he also studied writing systems , in particular the evolution of Indic scripts in Southeast Asia. Michel Ferlus was born in 1935. He followed classes in ethnology and prehistory taught by André Leroi-Gourhan ; in 'primitive religions' by Roger Bastide ; in linguistics by André Martinet ; and in Southeast Asian languages and history by George Cœdès . He worked in Laos as
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