A GEOGRAPHICAL LINGUISTICS STUDY OF DIALECTS SPOKEN IN NAKHON RATCHASIMA PROVINCE

Abstract

This research objectives are studying and analysis of the dialects for devise the geography dialect, using the integrated research methodology are qualitative and quantitative based on the descriptive linguistics using the questionnaires to survey of geography dialect of 3,743 villages by purposive theory.

          Composed of research results the phonology dialects divided are Khorat, Esan, Mon, Yuan (Lanna), Nahkur(Chao Bon) can divide the sound systems as follows: 1)The phonology of Khorat there are 20 Consonant sounds,No Consonant clusters,18 Monothong Vowel Sounds, 3 Diphthong Vowel Sounds,5 Tonal sounds. 2)The phonology of Esan (Laotion,Lao) there are 19 Consonant sounds,No Consonant clusters,18 Monothong Vowel Sounds,3 Diphthong Vowel Sounds,5 Tonal sounds. 3)The phonology of Mon there are 20 Consonant sounds,No Consonant clusters,16 Monothong Vowel Sounds,2 Diphthong Vowel Sounds,4 Tonal sounds. 4)The phonology of Yuan (Lanna) there are 18 Consonant sounds, No Consonant clusters,15 Monothong Vowel Sounds,2 Diphthong Vowel Sounds,5 Tonal sounds. 5)The phonology of Nahkur(Chao Bon) there are 27 Consonant sounds,14 Consonant clusters,18 Monothong Vowel Sounds,3 Diphthong Vowel Sounds,5 Tonal sounds. And the analysis data were used to create geography linguistics dialect appearing speakers as follows : The Khorat language of speakers 1,311,722, The Isan language of speakers 683,356, The Yuan (Lanna) language of speakers 4,686, The Mon language of speakers 541, The Nahkur(Chao Bon) language of speakers 768, The Central Thai language of speakers 282,294, other languages of speakers 2,965.