Languages of the She Minority: A Review of the Literature.
畲族语言：文献回顾
Yaching Tsai 蔡雅菁; Xiaoling Deng 邓晓玲

Abstract 摘要
This paper reviews various sources of literature on the languages of the She minority. Previous scholarship can generally be divided into three aspects: those that study the genetic affiliation of the She language (Sheyu); those that study the relation between the She speech (Shehua) and Chinese dialects, or between Shehua and Zhuang-Dong languages; and those that study languages of the She people as an endangered language. The paper points out the future development of She research, which will aim at safeguarding languages of the She minority. The status of Sheyu and Shehua and their interrelationship will be better clarified when studies proceed with the perspective of basic core vocabulary. Furthermore, studies on languages of the She minority require interdisciplinary methodologies that combine language competition and mathematical modeling to explore factors contributing to the endangerment of She people’s languages.

文章回顾总结了大部分的畲族语言研究的成果，认为前人的研究主要集中在畲语的系属问题、畲话和汉语方言及壮侗语的关系、畲族语言作为濒危语言的研究三个方面，并从研究方法和所使用的材料两方面分析了前人研究的局限性与不足。本文指出，研究如何保护畲族语言是未来畲族语言研究发展的必然趋势，从基本核心词的角度来探讨畲语和畲话的地位以及二者的关系，并用语言竞争数学模型等多学科的研究方法来探讨导致畲族语言濒危的因素，是未来畲族语言研究的发展方向。