著者

水谷 真成

出版者

東洋文庫

雑誌

東洋学報 = The Toyo Gakuho

巻号頁・発行日

vol.39, no.4, pp.337-367, 1957-03

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Since Henri Maspero pointed out in his work published in 1920 the denasalization which took place in the Northern Chinese dialect during the T’ang period, the fact has been generally acknowledged. Still it is not clear how the denasalization proceeded and, therefore, the debate concerning the value of Initial ‘Jib’ (日) in the Ch’ieh-yün 切韻, whether it was pronounced as n’ or as n’z’, has continued without any convincing evidence.Having examined the phenomenon in various dhāranīs written at the end of the Sui Dynasty or at the beginning of the T’ang Dynasty and in the Ta-t’ang His-yü-chi (大唐西域記), the writer has found the following points:(1) This tendency of denasalization had already extended to the dialect of Lo-yang 洛陽 between the periods of Sui and T’ang. It seems to have begun to appear in the Ch’ang-an 長安 dialect not long before that period.(2) This tendency was commenced first in the narrowing of Initial Jih and gradually expanded to other points of articulation.(3) The denazalition first appeared in words having no nasal final and affected also those ending in nasals at the beginning of the 8th century.Parallel with this new tendency the older transcription was maintained. Finally, it has been made clear that the unbalance in the speed of phonetic change continued for a considerable length of time.

著者

水谷 真成

出版者

大谷学会

雑誌

大谷学報 (ISSN:02876027)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.34, no.3, pp.29-36, 1954-12