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Indosphere
Indosphere is a term coined by the linguist James Matisoff for areas of Indian linguistic and cultural influence in Southeast Asia. It is commonly used in areal linguistics in contrast with Sinosphere.
==Influence==
(詳細はTibeto-Burman family of languages, which extends over a huge geographic range, is characterized by great typological diversity, comprising languages that range from the highly tonal, monosyllabic, analytic type with practically no affixational morphology, like the Loloish languages, to marginally tonal or atonal languages with complex systems of verbal agreement morphology, like the Kiranti group of Nepal. This diversity is partly to be explained in terms of areal influences from Chinese on the one hand and Indo-Aryan languages on the other.〔James Alan Matisoff, ''Handbook of Proto-Tibeto-Burman: System and Philosophy of Sino-Tibetan Reconstruction'', pages 6-7, University of California Press, 2003, ISBN 0-520-09843-9〕 Matisoff proposed two large and overlapping areas combining cultural and linguistic features – the "Sinosphere" and the "Indosphere", influenced by China and India respectively.〔Robert M. W. Dixon, Y. Alexandra, ''Adjective Classes: A Cross-linguistic Typology '', page 74, Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-920346-6〕〔RJ LaPolla, The Sino-Tibetan Languages, La Trobe University〕 A buffer zone between them as a third group was proposed by Kristine A. Hildebrandt, followed by B. Bickel and J. Nichols. The Indosphere is dominated by Indic languages.
Some languages and cultures firmly belong to one or the other. For example, the Munda and Khasi branches of Austroasiatic languages, the Tibeto-Burman languages of Eastern Nepal, and much of the "Kamarupan" group of Tibeto-Burman, which most notably includes the Meitei (Manipuri), are Indospheric; while the Hmong–Mien family, the Kam–Sui branch of Kadai, the Loloish branch of Tibeto-Burman, and Vietnamese (Viet–Muong) are Sinospheric. Some other languages, like Thai and Tibetan, have been influenced by both Chinese and Indian culture at different historical periods. Still other linguistic communities are so remote geographically that they have escaped significant influence from either. For example, the Aslian branch of Mon–Khmer in Malaya, or the Nicobarese branch of Mon–Khmer in the Nicobar Islands of the Indian Ocean show little influence by Sinosphere or Indosphere.〔 The Bodish languages and Kham languages are characterized by hybrid prosodic properties akin to related Indospheric languages towards the west and also Sinospheric languages towards the east.〔Matti Miestamo & Bernhard Wälchli, ''New Challenges in Typology'', page 90, Walter de Gruyter, 2007, ISBN 3-11-019592-5〕 Some languages of the Kiranti group in the Indosphere rank among the morphologically most complex languages of Asia.〔David Levinson & Karen Christensen, ''Encyclopedia of Modern Asia: a berkshire reference work'', page 494, Charles Scribner's Sons, 2002, ISBN 0-684-80617-7〕
Indian cultural, intellectual, and political influence – especially that of Devanagari writing system – began to penetrate both insular and peninsular Southeast Asia about 2000 years ago. Indic writing systems were adopted first by Austronesians, like Javanese and Cham, and Austroasiatics, like Khmer and Mon, then by Tai (Siamese and Lao) and Tibeto-Burmans (Pyu, Burmese, and Karen). Indospheric languages are also found in Mainland Southeast Asia (MSEA), defined as the region encompassing Laos, Cambodia, and Thailand, as well as parts of Burma, Peninsular Malaysia and Yunnan. Related scripts are also found in South East Asian islands ranging from Sumatra, Java, Bali, south Sulawesi and most of the Philippines.〔Martin Haspelmath, (The World Atlas of Language Structures ), page 569, Oxford University Press, 2005, ISBN 0-19-925591-1〕 The learned components of the vocabularies of Khmer, Mon, Burmese and Thai/Lao consist of words of Pali or Sanskrit origin. Indian influence also spread north to the Himalayan region. Tibetan has used Devanagari writing since 600 AD, but has preferred to calque new religious and technical vocabulary from native morphemes rather than borrowing Indian ones.〔 The Cham empires, known collectively as Champa, which were founded around the end of 2nd century AD, belonged directly to Indosphere of influence, rather than to the Sinosphere which shaped so much of Vietnamese culture and by which Chams were influenced later and indirectly.〔Umberto Ansaldo, Stephen Matthews & Lisa Lim, ''Deconstructing Creole'', page 113, John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2007, ISBN 90-272-2985-6〕
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