Abstract

Rox 'to know' is found in all three branches of Tai, in the Kam-Sui languages and in Lingao and Qiongshan on Hainan. The chapter gives a listing of all characters used for rox or equivalents in the traditional texts from all locations. It also lists the locations where each character or character variant is found. All the others are phonetic borrowings, phonetic compound characters, semantic compound characters, or graphs derived from them. The following information of Chinese and Chữ Nom connections are 1) which characters exist in Chinese and which are Zhuang inventions; 2) Early Middle Chinese (EMC) and Late Middle Chinese (LMC) reconstructions; 3) which characters exist in Chữ Nom writing; 4) pronunciation in Han-Việt. The chapter also discusses graphic analysis and phonology.Keywords:Early Middle Chinese (EMC); Late Middle Chinese (LMC); phonology; rox; Zhuang

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