• Proceedings of the KSPS conference
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• 2000.07a
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• pp.166-177
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• 2000

The purpose of this study was to create letters for of nonliterary Pulang tribe in Thailand those who immigrant from China. illiterate Pulang tribe hand down their tradition by primary oral culture therefore their tradition can't initiate and keep, moreover, it may disappear throughout history. So it is expected to crusade against unlettered people. The scheme of research adopted in this study was a minority race who habitate at the northern Machan, Chiangrai in Thailand. It is not only analysis of language but also the eradication of literacy and the research based on linguistic, ethnolinguistic, and primary oral culture. Five Pulang people who live in that area were chosen for creating letters. By using the I. P. A., after each word was listen to their pronunciation one by one it was described and repeated this process several times; the material words and humanbody were pointed in front of them while other words were described by gesture. For final description, number of people were in the lineup for listening the sound of words and phrases to sentences. In the first stage, it was an analysis segmental of Pulang: vocoid, contoid and diphthong were described with each sample syllables and words. The suprasegmental were studied with intonation and juncture of the words in the second stage. Two words were compared and different meanings within their intonation and juncture were shown. At the end of this part, each case of phonemic or morphophonemics representation described the juncture in the words. In the third stage, minimal pairs were analyzed with vowels and consonants and described in free variation based on words. In the last stage, syllable structure in open syllable and closed syllable was studied and then each syllable of its structure was analyzed with samples. There were thirty-two phonemes in apong Pulang as follows: seven vocoids; a, i, e, o, u, ${\ae}$, and $\wedge$, one diphthong; wu, 24 contoids; b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, k, 1, m, n, ${\eta}, {\;}p^{h}$, p, p, r, s, s, sh, t, t, w, and y. Their pronunciations of p, s, d, $p^{h}$, j, and t are frequently used in speech and are unique in triphthong. Moreover, most of the words used initial and final consonant cluster.

• Russian Language and Literature
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• no.67
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• pp.155-173
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• 2019

After the October Revolution, the Soviet Union created a theory of creating letters for people who did not have scripts, and the task of applying this theory to the actuality emerged. As a result of this activity, the number of languages that have obtained the scripts exceeds the number of scripts created throughout Europe. At that time, most of the people of the Soviet republics spoke only mother tongue, and it had only oral form. In the shortest time, a scripts system for the Soviet people's mother tongue was to be created to approach and educate a large number of people to the achievements of international science and culture. At that time, Russians, Ukrainians, Georgians, and Armenians had developed and had a script system that fit their language. The languages of Tatars, Kazakhs, Kyrgyzs, Uzbeks, Turkmen, Tajiks and Azerbaizans had not well suited to Turkic languages, based on Arabic characters reflecting Semitic characteristics. For some minorities such as the Yakuts and the Chubashians, the Cyrillic-based notation had already been established before the revolution, but about 50 peoples, especially all northern peoples, had no scripts. As we see above, not only peoples who did not have not scripts before the revolution, but also scripts for all ethnic groups of the Soviet Union, which had previously been based on Latin, Arab or Jewish scripts, were created to access and educated large numbers of people within the shortest time to the achievements of world science and culture. The principle of markings for the people without the Soviet Union was to represent the unique notes of the ethnic languages by considering the unique phonetic components of the ethnic language as much as possible while observing the unity required for the Soviet ethnic characters, approaching the actual literary language and actually creating supplementary letters.