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A Study on Emigration to Southeast Asia from Fujian, China and Language Contact

  • The Journal of Study on Language and Culture of Korea and China
  • Abbr : JSLCKC
  • 2008, (15), pp.115-143
  • DOI : 10.16874/jslckc.2008..15.006
  • Publisher : Korean Society of Study on Chinese Languge and Culture
  • Research Area : Humanities > Chinese Language and Literature
  • Published : February 28, 2008

Won Jong Min 1

1사이버한국외국어대학교

Candidate

ABSTRACT

There are numerous immigrants from Fujian, China because of geographical, political, and economic reasons. The majority of the Chinese people in Southeast Asia are from this area. The immigrants from Fujian in China and their descendants have influenced the countries in Southeast Asia in politics, economy, culture, language, and other aspects. In the Malay Archipelago and Philippines that have the greatest number of the Chinese people from the southern region of Fujian, many Chinese loan words are used for daily communication. This study dealt with the motivations of the Chinese people who moved into the countries in Southeast Asia and the process of their linguistic contact. This paper can be helpful for researchers who study the history of language contact in Southeast Asia, such as China and Indonesia, or lexical studies on the Chinese loan words in Indonesian language.

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