Wu Wancai’s Duoxu Data Collection: A Premilinary Investigation 吴万才手稿多续话语料集初探

International audience This paper focuses on an unpublished manuscript “A brief history of the Tibetans of Liangshan Prefecture: The Duoxu Tibetans of Mianning county” by Wu Wancai. The manuscript was discovered during our fieldwork on the critically endangered and virtually undocumented Duoxu language. Wu’s manuscript, whose compilation began in 1955 and spanned nearly 50 years, contains an extensive Duoxu-Chinese wordlist and a number of Duoxu texts (including song lyrics, proverbs, riddles, and narratives), transcribed in Chinese characters. This is the largest collection of language data on Duoxu known to date, which furthermore stem from the time when the language was still widely spoken. It is for that reason of great significance for ongoing research work on Duoxu. This paper is first in a series that will investigate and publish Duoxu data from Wu's manuscript. It focuses on the basic principles of Wu’s Chinese transcriptions of Duoxu and provides an overview of some differences between the Duoxu, as recorded by Wu, and modern Duoxu, as recorded in our fieldwork. 本文作者在冕宁县开展高度濒危藏语多续话的调查期间，发现了多续语料的手稿《凉山州藏族简史：冕宁县藏族多续之谱》。该手稿由藏族多续人吴万才老先生在生前用汉字记音的方式记录下的多续话词汇与长篇语料组成。该手稿是迄今为止多续话语料数量、种类与范围最广的语料集，反映了20世纪中下叶的多续话面貌，对研究语料材料较少的多续话有着重要意义。本文是介绍吴万才手稿及其内容一系列文章的第一部分，旨在归纳整理手稿的注音汉字标音系统，并简要探讨手稿所反映的较早期多续话与目前调查记录的多续话之间的语音差异。