Study On Vocabulary Of Tianzhu Dialect

Tibetan Autonomous County of Tianzhu (hereinafter referred to as" Tianzhu") is located in southeast of Wuwei city in Gansu province, and there are sixteen ethnic groups have been living here for a long period like Han, Tibetan, Tu, Hui minority and so on. Due to the special language environment,by the deeply degree of influence of language contact,Therefore, its language possesses the local feature as well. This text aims at vocabulary as study object, discuss its feature especially its periodical ones; Find out language changing, getting the study basis for the language contact and evolution.This paper is divided into six sections.The first section is a preface, it briefly introduces the present research of Tianzhu dialect and topic foundation, and explain the research scope and the significance, the research theory basis and the method, and briefly states the origin of corpus,the style rules and layout,pronunciation cooperation.The second section is an overview of the whole thesis. It mainly introduces Tianzhu’s geography, historical evolution, ethnic composition and language profile. Language profile mainly introduces minority language and Chinese dialects, at the same time, it generally summarizes the ascription of Tianzhu and pronunciation feature of Tianzhu dialect.The third we chose the vocabularies of the elderly, the middle-aged and the youth as comparative objects,brought them together then exactly compared and discussed them into three parts:the words are totally in common, the words have little differences among them and the words are completely different with others. Then we analysed the vocabulary types between young and older people to have a further analysis about the reasons for it.The fourth section,it is vocabulary comparisions between Tianzhu dialects and mandarin, from the standpoints of syllable differences, morphological differences, semantic differences, additional ingredient differences and grammatical features.The fifth section is Tianzhu dialects vocabulary’s variations and developments in the perspective of language contact. Starting with the influences of social factors, we discussed the variations in Tianzhu dialects vocabulary,then discussed the formation and developments of Tianzhu dialects vocabulary influencd by language contact, and then made a thorough study of the variation tendency in Tianzhu dialects vocabulary. The sixth section is the conclusion summarizes the whole thesis and show the research contents needed to be done in further study.