Siriwan Pakkhem. A phonological comparison of Pattani Malay as spoken in Narathiwat, Krabi and Pathumthani. Master's Degree(Linguistics). Mahidol University. : Mahidol University, 2007.
A phonological comparison of Pattani Malay as spoken in Narathiwat, Krabi and Pathumthani
Abstract:
This thesis is a phonological comparison study of Pattani Malay as spoken in
Narathiwat, Krabi and Pathumthani provinces of Thailand in the year 2006. These three
varieties are members of the same language, Pattani Malay which is an Austronesian
language. Narathiwat variety was chosen as the original language area, Krabi variety as a
nearby area and Pathumthani variety was chosen as a distant area. The Tagmemic
framework was used to analyze and compare the phonological systems. The similarities
and the differences between these three Pattani Malay varieties are presented in this
study.
The result of this comparative study indicates that, at the phonemic level,
Narathiwat and Krabi varieties have the same 20 consonant phonemes: /p,b,t,d,c,,
k,,,m,n,,,s,x,,h,w,j,l/ and 10 vowel phonemes:/i,e,æ,,a,u,,
ae,au/. The Pathumthani variety does not have consonant phoneme /x/ and has one
more glided vowel: /u/. Syllables in Narathiwat and Krabi varieties are the same: CV,
CVC, CCV and CCVC with monosyllabic, disyllabic and trisyllabic words but in
Pathumthani there are two patterns: CV, CVC. Stress group in all three varieties are:
Strong stress, Weak stress and Unstress but only Narathiwat variety has another type of
stress named “Extra strong stress” in a special case. These three varieties have three
intonation group types: Falling contour, Rising-falling contour and Rising contour.
It is found that Narathiwat and Krabi varieties are closely related in all
phonological environments. As for Pathumthani variety, it has a few differences such as
the development of some phonemes and borrowings from Thai. This suggests that the
major language in the community has influenced the Pathumthani variety.