Saek language

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Saek (Sek; Template:Langx) is a Tai language spoken in at least ten villages in Khammouane Province, Laos, and at least four villages in Nakhon Phanom Province in northeastern Thailand, just across the Mekong River. It is spoken by the Saek people.

Phonology

The Saek tones are (Hudak & Gedney 2010):

  • 1 = Script error: No such module "IPA". (/34/) mid level, slight rise at the end
  • 2 = Script error: No such module "IPA". (/11/) low level
  • 3 = Script error: No such module "IPA". (/31ˀ/) falling to low, with glottal constriction
  • 4 = Script error: No such module "IPA". (/454/) high peaking
  • 5 = Script error: No such module "IPA". (/52/) high falling
  • 6 = Script error: No such module "IPA". (/32ˀ/) mid level, with slight fall and glottal constriction

Saek tonal splits are as follows (See Proto-Tai language#Tones for clarification.).

Gedney Diagram: Saek Tones
*A *B *C *DS *DL
Aspirated 2, 1 6 3 4 6
Unaspirated 1 6 3 4 6
Glottalized 1 6 3 4 6
Voiced 4 5 6 6 5

Locations

Saek is spoken in the following locations (Hudak & Gedney 2010:251-252).

Thailand

Two Saek villages are "Ban Asamat" and "Ban Phai Lom," located just off the main river road a few kilometers north of Nakhon Phanom city. Another is Ban Ba Wa Saek, located further upriver, but inland a few kilometers. However, except for the older generation, the Saek language is all but disappearing as there is a strong tendency for younger generations to use the local trade language Lao/Isan, and/or the official Central Thai language as they are assimilated into mainstream Thai society.

William Gedney lists the following Saek villages in Nakhon Phanom Province, Thailand.

  1. Template:Tlit Script error: No such module "Lang". (known locally as Template:Tlit). 5 km north of the city of Nakhon Phanom. This is the variant recorded by William Gedney in his Saek language: glossary, texts, and translations. Variant pronunciations: Template:Tlit (old name; archaic), Template:Tlit, Template:Tlit, Template:Tlit, Template:Tlit, Template:Tlit, Template:Tlit.
  2. Template:Tlit, one mile inland from Template:Tlit. Variant name: Template:Tlit.
  3. Template:Tlit in Si Songkhram District (Template:Tlit). Variant pronunciations: Template:Tlit, Template:Tlit, Template:Tlit.
  4. Template:Tlit in Template:Tlit district. Variant pronunciation: Template:Tlit.

According to Gedney, abandoned Saek villages in Thailand include:

  1. Template:Tlit, between Template:Tlit and the city of Nakhon Phanom.
  2. Template:Tlit, on the road to Sakon Nakhon.

Laos

According to Gedney's texts and notebooks, Saek is spoken in the following locations in Laos.

  1. Template:Tlit
  2. Template:Tlit
  3. Template:Tlit
  4. Template:Tlit - completely occupied by Saek
  5. Template:Tlit - half Lao, half Saek village

Chamberlain (1998) cites the following Saek-speaking villages in Laos. District codes are also given in parentheses (see districts of Laos).

  • Khamkeut District, Borikhamxay Province (11-05)
    • Ban Na Kadok, Nam Veo Subdistrict (originally from Phu Quan village, near Đức Thọ, Hà Tĩnh Province, Vietnam). They have extensive gold mines along the Nam Houay stream bed. Settlers from Na Kadok had also founded Na Vang in Nakai District, located on the Nam Mone, when they were hiding from Thai soldiers during the Siamese occupation of Laos. The Bru people now live in Na Vang and maintain the terraces that the Saek had originally built.
    • Ban Som Sanouk, Lak Xao Subdistrict
    • Ban Nam Phao, Lak Xao Subdistrict
    • Ban Houay Toun, Lak Xao Subdistrict
    • Ban Na Tham Kwang (or Ban Nam Hoy), Khammmouane Subdistrict
  • Nakai District, Khammouane Province (12-07)
    • Ban Toeng (subdistrict seat on the Nam Noy)
    • Ban Na Meo (located on the Nam Pheo, a tributary of the Nam Noy; village claimed to have been occupied for 286 years)
    • Ban Na Moey (located on the Nam Pheo)
    • Ban Beuk (located on the Nam Pheo)[1]
  • Gnommarath District, Khammouane Province (12-05)
    • Ban Pha Toung (residents originally from Ban Toeng)
    • Ban Khène (residents originally from Ban Toeng)
  • Thakhek District, Khammouane Province (12-01): various villages
  • Hinboun District, Khammouane Province (12-04): various villages

Morev notes that Saek is also spoken in the following districts of Khammouane Province, Laos.

The Saek speakers of Laos live adjacent to Bru and Mène speakers (Chamberlain 1998).

Additional data on Saek of Laos has since been collected by Jean Pacquement (2016, 2017, 2018).[2][3][4]

Vietnam

According to Gedney, Vietnam is said to have the two following Saek villages. However, Chamberlain (1998) notes that all villages listed by Gedney to be in Vietnam are actually in Laos.

  1. Template:Tlit (actually in Laos according to Chamberlain (1998))
  2. Template:Tlit

According to Gedney, abandoned Saek villages in Vietnam (Laos according to Chamberlain) include the following. Their equivalents in Chamberlain (1998) are given in parentheses.

  1. Template:Tlit (Ban Beuk)
  2. Template:Tlit (Ban Na Moey)
  3. Template:Tlit (Ban Toeng - subdistrict seat on the Nam Noy)
  4. Template:Tlit (Ban Thô - next to the Houay Thô and Nam Amang confluence; just north of the mountain "Phu Kun Tho")
  5. The Template:Tlit

China

There are perhaps some Saek speakers in China, where they are classified as Zhuang people.[5]

Notes

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References

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Sources

  • Chamberlain, James R. 1998. "The Origin of the Sek: Implications for Tai and Vietnamese History". Journal of the Siam Society 86.1 & 86.2: 27–48.
  • Gedney, W. J. (1993). William J. Gedney's the Saek language: glossary, texts, and translations. Michigan papers on South and Southeast Asia, no. 41. [ ]: Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan. Template:ISBN
  • Hudak, Thomas J., and William J. Gedney. 2010. William J. Gedney's concise Saek-English, English-Saek lexicon. Oceanic Linguistics special publication, no. 37. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.
  • Miyake, Marc. 2013. Saek.
  • Morev, L. N. 1988. Yazik Sek [The Saek Language]. Moscow: Nauka.

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External links

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  1. ↑ Saek audio recordings from Ban Beuk, Laos
  2. ↑ Pacquement, Jean. 2018. The Saek spoken in Ban Na Kadôk: a “disappointing” dialect? Presented at SEALS 28, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
  3. ↑ Pacquement, Jean. 2017. The Saek Language: the first dialect and the second dialect. Presented at SEALS 27, 11–13 May 2017, Padang, West Sumatra, Indonesia.
  4. ↑ Pacquement, Jean. 2016. Saek Language in the Early Years of the 20th Century and Nowadays. Presented at the 5th International Conference on Lao Studies, July 8–10, 2016 Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand.
  5. ↑ Bradley 2007, p. 371.
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