Sinophone Southeast Asia: Sinitic Voices Across the Southern Seas

by and Tom Hoogervorst, Caroline Chia, National University of Singapore

This volume explores the diverse linguistic landscape of Southeast Asia's Chinese communities. Based on archival research and previously unpublished linguistic fieldwork, it unearths a wide variety of language histories, linguistic practices, and trajectories of words. The localized and often marginalized voices we bring to the spotlight are quickly disappearing in the wake of standardization and homogenization, yet they tell a story that is uniquely...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 900442122X
• ISBN13: 9789004421226
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 278 Pages