A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF LAO WIANG DIALECT AND THAI DIALECT SPOKEN IN UBON RATCHATHANI

Abstract

The article of this thesis is a part of “A Comparative Study of Lao Wiang Dialect and Thai Dialect Spoken in Ubon Ratchathani”The research’s purposes were 1) to study phonological system of Lao Wiang Dialect and 2) to study phonological system of Thai dialect spoken in Ubonrachathani province 3) to comparative study of phonological system between Lao-wiang dialect and Thai dialect spoken in Ubonrachathani province. This thesis was Qualitative research by study from document and informants include 10 informants of Lao-Wiang Dialect and Thai dialect spoken in Ubon ratchathani. The instruments of thesis consist of 1,350 lists of grosser, the phonological test and the tables for testing the tone to study these languages are brought to analysis in this thesis. The result of the study as follows: The result of the consonant of Lao wiang dialect and Ubon Dialect are the same.  The  both of languages were 20 such as /k/ , /kh/ , /ŋ/, /c/, /ɲ/, /d/, /t/, /th/, /n/, /b/, /p/, /ph/, /f/, /m/, /y/, /l/, /w/, /s/,/h/, /?/, initial sounds and 9 final sounds as /-k/, /-t/,/-p/, /-ŋ/, /-n/, /-m/, /-y/, /-w/,/-?/  and the Vowel sounds are both languages has 18 single sounds as /a/ , /a:/, /i/, /i:/, /ɨ/, /ɨ:/, /u/,/u:/, /e/ , /e:/, /ԑ/,/ԑ:/, /o/, /o:/,  /ɔ/ , /ɔ:/ , /ə/ , /ə:/and the 3 diphthongs as /i:a/, /ɨ:a/,/u:a/ and there have six tones. In both languages as mid-level, low falling tone, high falling tone, high rising tone, low rising tone, mid-rising, the difference is in aspects of basic words of giver languages and some information of tones