중앙아시아의 둥간어와 小兒錦의 언어

Abstract

The Dunganese, Muslims sinocized perhaps from Persian and Arabic founders after repeated racial mixtures who went from Gansu and Shanxi to Russian territory of Turkestan, i.e. nowaday’s Kyrgyzstan, Qazaqstan and O’zbekiston in the latter half of the 19th century use one of the northern dialects of Chinese, which they call dunganskij jazyk and write in Cyrillic script. Good amounts of the Dunganese language property have been accumulated through translations from Russian papers, radio and school education in the Soviet Union period, while Soviet Dunganese speakers and Putong hua speakers cannot communicate with each others. Resemblances in phonemic aspects between Dunganese and the language of “Xiaoerjin (小兒錦)”, the explanatory books of Islamic discipline written chiefly in the language of the Muslims in the northern parts of China and in Arabic script, which were collected by the Institute for Languages and Cultures, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, are pointed out in this paper.