Social:Xibe language
| Sibe | |
|---|---|
| Xibe | |
| Template:ManchuSibeUnicode sibe gisun | |
| Pronunciation | [ɕivə kisun][1] |
| Native to | China |
| Region | Xinjiang[2] |
| Ethnicity | 189,000 Sibe people (2000)[3] |
Native speakers | 30,000 (2000)[3] |
| Sibe alphabet (variant of the Manchu alphabet) | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | sjo |
| Glottolog | xibe1242[4] |
The Sibe language (Template:Lang-sjo, also Sibo, Xibe) is a Tungusic language spoken by members of the Sibe minority of Xinjiang, in Northwest China.
Classification
Sibe is conventionally viewed[by whom?] as a separate language within the southern group of Tungusic languages alongside the more well-known Manchu language, having undergone more than 200 years of development separated from the Tungusic-speaking heartland since Sibe troops were dispatched to the Xinjiang frontiers in 1764. Some researchers such as Jerry Norman hold that Sibe is a dialect of Manchu, whereas Xibologists such as An Jun argue that Sibe should be considered the "successor" to Manchu. Ethnohistorically, the Sibe people are not considered Manchu people, because they were excluded from chieftain Nurhaci's 17th-century tribal confederation to which the name "Manchu" was later applied.[5]
Phonology
Sibe is mutually intelligible with Manchu,[6] although unlike Manchu, Sibe has reported to have eight vowel distinctions as opposed to the six found in Manchu, as well as differences in morphology, and a more complex system of vowel harmony.[7]
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Retroflex | (Alveolo-) palatal |
Velar | Uvular | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | sibilant | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||
| Plosive/ Affricate |
unaspirated | p | t | t͡s | ʈ͡ʂ | t͡ɕ | k | q |
| aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | t͡sʰ | ʈ͡ʂʰ | t͡ɕʰ | kʰ | qʰ | |
| Fricative | voiceless | f | s | ʂ | ɕ | x | χ | |
| voiced | v | ʐ | ||||||
| Rhotic | r | |||||||
| Approximant | w | l | j | |||||
- Fricative sounds /x, χ/ are often voiced as [ɣ, ʁ], when occurring after a resonant sound.
- /s, ɕ/ often are voiced as [z, ʑ], when occurring in word-medial positions.
- /m/ can be heard as labio-dental [ɱ], when preceding a /v/.
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | i | y | u | |
| Mid | ə | o | ||
| Low-mid | ɛ | œ | ||
| Low | a | |||
- Allophones of /œ/, /ə/, and /o/ are [ø], [ɤ], [ɔ].[8][page needed]
Morphology
Sibe has seven case morphemes, three of which are used quite differently from modern Manchu. The categorization of morphemes as case markers in spoken Sibe is partially controversial due to the status of numerous suffixes in the language. Despite the general controversy about the categorization of case markers versus postpositions in Tungusic languages, four case markers in Sibe are shared with literary Manchu (Nominative, Genitive, Dative-Locative and Accusative). Sibe's three innovated cases – the ablative, lative, and instrumental-sociative share their meanings with similar case forms in neighboring Uyghur, Kazakh, and Oiryat Mongolian.[9]
| Case Name | Suffix | Example | English gloss |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | -∅ | ɢazn-∅ | village |
| Genitive | -i | ɢazn-i | of the village |
| Dative-Locative | -də/-t | ɢazn-t | to the village |
| Accusative | -f/-və | ɢazn-və | the village (object) |
| Ablative | -dəri | ɢazn-dəri | from the village |
| Lative | -ći | ɢazn-ći | towards the village |
| Instrumental-Sociative | -maq | ɢazn-maq | with the village |
Lexicon
The general vocabulary and structure of Sibe has not been affected as much by Chinese as Manchu has. However, Sibe has absorbed a large body of Chinese sociological terminology, especially in politics: like gəming ("revolution", from 革命) and zhuxi ("chairperson", from 主席),[10] and economics: like chūna ("cashier", from 出纳) and daikuan ("loan", from 贷款). Written Sibe is more conservative and rejecting of loanwords, but spoken Sibe contains additional Chinese-derived vocabulary such as nan (from 男) for "man" where the Manchu-based equivalent is niyalma.[5] There has also been some influence from Russian,[11] including words such as konsul ("consul", from консул) and mashina ("sewing machine", from машина).[5] Smaller Xinjiang languages contribute mostly cultural terminology, such as namas ("an Islamic feast") from Uygur and baige ("horse race") from Kazakh.[5]
Writing system
Sibe is written in a derivative of the Manchu alphabet.[7] The Sibe alphabet diverges from the Manchu alphabet in that the positions of the letters in some words have changed, Sibe lacks 13 out of 131 syllables in Manchu, and Sibe has three syllables that are not found in Manchu (wi, wo, and wu).[5]
The table below lists the letters in Sibe that differentiate it from Manchu as well as the placement of the letters. Blue areas mark letters with different shapes from Manchu, green areas marks different Unicode codes from Manchu.
| Letters | Transliteration (Paul Georg von Mollendorf/Abkai/CMCD) | Unicode encoding | Description | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent | Initial | Medial | Final | |||
ᡞ᠊ 
|
᠊ᡞ᠊ 
|
᠊ᡞ 
|
i | 185E | The second row for the shape after a vowel; The third for the shape after b, p, and feminine k, g, h; The fourth row for the shape after dz/z | |
| ᠊ᡞ᠋᠊ | ||||||
| ᡞ᠌᠊ | ᠊ᡞ᠋ | |||||
| ᠊ᡞ᠌ | ||||||
| ᠊ᡡ᠊ | ᠊ᡡ | ū/v/uu | 1861 | Appears only after masculine k, g, h | ||
| ᡢ | ᡢ᠊ | ᠊ᡢ | ng | 1862 | Only occurs at the end of syllables | |
| ᡣ | ᡣ᠊ 
|
᠊ᡣ᠊ 
|
k | 1863 | The first row for the shape before a, o, ū; The third row for the shape before e, i, u; The second row for the shape at the end of syllables. | |
| ᠊ᡣ᠋᠊ | ᠊ᡣ | |||||
ᡣ 
|
᠊ᡴ᠌᠊ 
|
|||||
| ᡪ | ᡪ᠊ 
|
᠊ᡪ᠊
|
j/j/zh | 186A | Only appears in the first syllable | |
| ᠷ | ᠷ᠊ | ᠊ᠷ᠊ 
|
᠊ᠷ | r | 1837 | Native Sibe words never begin with r |
| ᡫ | ᡫ᠊ | ᠊ᡫ᠊ | f | 186B | "F" in Sibe has only one shape. No shape change like Manchu occurs. | |
| ᠸ | ᠸ᠊ 
|
᠊ᠸ᠊ 
|
w | 1838 | Can appear before a, e, i, o, u | |
| ᡲ | ᡲ᠊ | ᠊ᡲ᠊ | j/j''/zh | 1872 | jy is used for Chinese loanwords (zhi as in Pinyin) | |
Cyrillization proposal
There was a proposal in China by 1957 to adapt the Cyrillic alphabet to Sibe, but this was abandoned in favor of the original Sibe script.[12][13]
| Cyrillic | Transliteration to Sibe Latin | IPA equivalent | Manchu/Sibe Alphabet Equivalent |
|---|---|---|---|
| А а | A a | a | ᠠ |
| Б б | B b | b | ᠪ |
| В в | V v | v | ᠸ |
| Г г | G g | g | ᡶ |
| Ғ ғ | Ḡ ḡ | ɢ | ᡬ |
| Д д | D d | d | ᡩ |
| Е е | E e | ə | ᡝ |
| Ё ё | Ö ö | œ | ᠣ |
| Ж ж | Z z | d͡z | ᡯ |
| Җ җ | J j | ɖ͡ʐ, d͡ʑ | ᠵ |
| З з | Ȥ ȥ | ʐ | ᡰ᠊ |
| И и | I i | i | ᡳ |
| Й й | Y y | j | ᠶ |
| К к | K k | k | ᡴ |
| Қ қ | Ⱪ ⱪ | q | ᠺ |
| Л л | L l | l | ᠯ |
| М м | M m | m | ᠮ |
| Н н | N n | n | ᠨ |
| Ң ң | ŋ or ng | ŋ | ᠩ |
| О о | O o | ɔ | ᠣ |
| Ө ө | Ū ū | ø | ᡡ |
| П п | P p | p | ᡦ |
| Р р | R r | r | ᡵ |
| С с | S s | s | ᠰ |
| Т т | T t | t | ᡨ |
| У у | U u | u | ᡠ |
| Ү ү | W w | w | ᠸ |
| Ф ф | F f | f | ᡶ |
| Х х | H h | x | ᡥ᠊ |
| Ҳ ҳ | Ⱨ ⱨ | χ | ᡥ᠊ |
| Ц ц | Č č | t͡s | ᡱ᠊ |
| Ч ч | C̄ c̄ | ʈ͡ʂ | ᡷ᠊ |
| Ш ш | S̨ s̨ | ʂ | ᡧ |
| ы | E e | e | ᡝ |
| Ә ә | ? | ɛ | ᠶᡝ |
| І і | Yi yi | ji | ᠶᡳ |
| Ю ю | Yu Yu | ju | ᠶᡠ |
| Я я | Ya ya | ja | ᠶᠠ |
| ь | – | sign of thinness |
Usage
In 1998, there were eight primary schools that taught Sibe in the Qapqal Xibe Autonomous County where the medium of instruction was Chinese, but Sibe lessons were mandatory. From 1954 to 1959, the People's Publishing House in Ürümqi published over 285 significant works, including government documents, belles-lettres, and schoolbooks, in Sibe.[5] Since 1946, the Sibe-language Qapqal News has been published in Yining. In Qapqal, Sibe-language programming is allocated 15 minutes per day of radio broadcasting and 15 to 30-minute television programmes broadcast once or twice per month.[14]
Sibe is taught as a second language at the Ili Normal University in the Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture of northern Xinjiang; it established an undergraduate major in the language in 2005.[15] A few Manchu language enthusiasts from Eastern China have visited Qapqal Sibe County in order to experience an environment where a variety closely related to Manchu is spoken natively.[16]
Notes
- ↑ Li & Zhong (1986), p. 1
- ↑ S. Robert Ramsey (1987). The Languages of China. Princeton University Press. pp. 216–. ISBN 0-691-01468-X. https://books.google.com/books?id=2E_5nR0SoXoC&pg=PA216.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Sibe at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Xibe". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/xibe1242.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 Gorelova, Liliya. "Past and Present of a Manchu Tribe: The Sibe". in Atabaki, Touraj (in en). Post-Soviet Central Asia. London: Tauris Academic Studies. pp. 327–329.
- ↑ Gordon (2005), Xibe
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Ramsey (1989), p. 215
- ↑ Li & Zhong 1986.
- ↑ Zikmundova, Veronika (2013) (in en). Spoken Sibe: Morphology of the Inflected Parts of Speech. Prague: Karolinum Press. pp. 48–69.
- ↑ Ramsey (1989), p. 216
- ↑ Guo (2007)
- ↑ Zhou, Minglang (2003) (in en). Multilingualism in China: The Politics of Writing Reforms for Minority Languages, 1949–2002. Berlin: Mouten de Gruyter. ISBN 3-11-017896-6.
- ↑ Ge, Siming 戈思明 (2019). Mǎnwén de chuánchéng: Xīnjiāng Xíbózú. Taibei Shi: Xiuwei zixun keji gufen youxian gongsi. ISBN 9789863266815.
- ↑ Zhang (2007)
- ↑ Tong, Zhihong 佟志红 (2007-06-06). ""Chábùcháěr bào" – Xíbórén zhǐ shàng de jīngshén jiāyuán" (in zh). Yīlí wǎnbào. http://www.tianshannet.com/news/content/2007-06/06/content_1961623.htm.
- ↑ Johnson, Ian (2009-10-03). "In China, the Forgotten Manchu Seek to Rekindle Their Glory" (in en). The Wall Street Journal. https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB125452110732160485.
References
- Li, Shulan 李树兰; Zhong, Qian 仲谦 (1986) (in zh). Xíbóyǔ jiǎnzhì. Beijing: Minzu chubanshe.
- Gordon, Raymond G. Jr., ed (2005). "Ethnologue: Languages of the World" (in en). SIL International. http://www.ethnologue.com/.
- Ramsey, S. Robert (1989) (in en). The Languages of China. Princeton University Press.
- Zhang, Li 张莉 (2007). "Xīnjiāng Xíbózú xīnwén shìyè fāzhǎn xiànzhuàng" (in zh). Yīlí shīfàn xuéyuàn xuébào (1). http://scholar.ilib.cn/A-QCode~yilsfxyxb200701012.html. Retrieved 2009-04-13.
- Guo, Qing 郭庆 (2004). "Èluósī yǔyán wénhuà duì Xīnjiāng Xíbózú yǔyán wénhuà de yǐngxiǎng" (in zh). Mǎnyǔ yánjiū / Manchu Studies 2004 (2): 41–45. http://www.ilib2.com/A-ISSN~1000-7873(2004)02-0041-05.html. Retrieved 2009-04-20.
Further reading
- Jang, Taeho (2008) (in zh). Xíbóyǔ yǔfǎ yánjiū. Kunming: Yunnan minzu chubanshe. ISBN 978-7-5367-4000-6.
- Li, Shulan 李淑兰; Zhong, Qian 仲谦; Wang, Qingfeng 王庆丰 (1984) (in zh). Xíbóyǔ kǒuyǔ yánjiū. Beijing: Minzu chubanshe.
- Kida, Akiyoshi (2000) (in en), A Typological and Comparative Study of Altaic Languages with Emphasis on Xibo Language: The Part of Xibo Grammar
- Jin, Ning (1994) (in en). Phonological Correspondences Between Literary Manchu and Spoken Sibe. University of Washington.
- Tong, Zhongming 佟中明 (2005). "Éguó zhùmíng xuézhě B·B·lā dé luò fū yòng Xíbóyǔ fùshù jìlù de mínjiān gùshì" (in zh). Mínzú wénxué yánjiū / Studies of Ethnic Literature 2005 (3): 60–63. http://www.wanfangdata.net/qikan/periodical.articles/mzwxyj/mzwx2005/0503/050313.htm.
- Zikmundová, Veronika (2013) (in en). Spoken Sibe: Morphology of the Inflected Parts of Speech. Prague: Karolinum Press. ISBN 9788024621036.
External links
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Xibe language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator |
- Mini Buleku: A Recorded Sibe Dictionary
- Abkai — Unicode Manchu/Sibe/Daur Fonts and Keyboards
- SibeCulture.com: Sibe-English-Chinese phrases
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