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The Transformation and Cultural Adaptation of Jātaka Elements in Classic Malay Literature

Religions
The literature of the Malay world, profoundly influenced by Indian traditions, frequently adheres to the narrative patterns found in Indian literature. With the rise of Islam, literary works in the Parrot Story collection were used to propagate Islamic ...
Siaw Hung Ng
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How strong is the case for contact-induced grammatical restructuring in Quechuan?

Linguistic Discovery, 2015
Certain subbranches of Trans-Himalayan (Sino-Tibeto-Burman) stand out as islands of complexity in a Eurasian sea of simplicity (Bickel and Nichols 2013).
Frenando Zúñiga
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KLSBench: Evaluating LLM Capabilities on Korean Literary Sinitic Texts in Historical Context

Applied Sciences
Large language models (LLMs) show limited capability in processing low-resource historical languages due to insufficient training data and domain-specific linguistic structures.
Seung-Hyun Han, Won-Seok Yang, Xiaohan Ma, Tae-Sun Chung   +3 more
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The non-Sinitic languages of Yunnan-Sichuan

, 2017
Article pour l'encyclopédie "Encyclopedia of Chinese Linguistics", éditée par Rint Sybesma, Wolfgang Behr, Zev Handel, James C.-T. Huang et James Meyers. Leiden: Brill, Vol III, 215-218.
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Is GIVE reliable for genealogical relatedness? A case study of extricable etyma of GIVE in Huī Chinese

Open Linguistics
This study provides an etymological study of one of the basic lexical items GIVE in a sample of 24 varieties of Huī Chinese, a lesser-known transitional group of Sinitic languages.
Hui Man-Shan, Lu Wen
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The endangered Tanka language in Hong Kong: phonological variations and lexical convergence with Cantonese

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications
The Tanka people, colloquially known as the “boat people”, are primarily located in Southeast China. Over time, their transition from a maritime to a land-based lifestyle has significantly influenced the languages they speak, particularly through contact
Cong Wang, Daxingwang Peng, Yanmei Dai, Chong Qi   +3 more
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Historical narratives and sociolinguistic factors affecting language use of the Hakkas in Thailand

Cogent Arts & Humanities
The Hakka people, a subgroup within the Han Chinese ethnicity and part of the Southern Sinitic language family, have migrated from China to various regions in Southeast Asia over several centuries.
Sutthiphod Phiranawong, Siripen Ungsitipoonporn, Erika Sandman   +2 more
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Shaowu as a Sinitic language [PDF]

, 2021
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SiniticMTError: A Machine Translation Dataset with Error Annotations for Sinitic Languages

Proceedings of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Despite major advances in machine translation (MT) in recent years, progress remains limited for many low-resource languages that lack large-scale training data and linguistic resources. In this paper, we introduce \dsname, a novel fine-grained dataset that builds on existing parallel corpora to provide error span, error type, and error severity ...
Liu, Hannah, Min, Junghyun, Lee, En-Shiun Annie, Cheung, Ethan Yue Heng, Hung, Shou-Yi, Chan, Elsie, Qian, Shiyao, Liang, Runtong, Huynh, Kimlan, Yip, Wing Yu, Ng, York Hay, Yau, TSZ Fung, Lo, Ka Ieng Charlotte, Wu, You-Wei, Tsai, Richard Tzong-Han   +14 more
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The Small and Efficient Language Network of Polyglots and Hyper-polyglots. [PDF]

Cereb Cortex, 2021
Jouravlev O, Mineroff Z, Blank IA, Fedorenko E.   +3 more
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