Using, attitude and language change of Tie Chew language in Thailand
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2018Author
Zirivarnphicha Thanajirawat
Somjai Suebsor
Nannat Jirapatwarakul
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The objective of this research is to: 1) study the status of Tie Chew Chinese
Dialect (Chaozhou) of the Tie Chew Chinese people in Thailand 2) study the attitude of
Thai Tie Chew Chinese people in Thailand and 3) study the language changes of Tie
Chew Chinese Dialect in Thailand. The populations of this research consist of 2 groups,
namely, the first sample group that studied the status of using Tie Chew Chinese Dialect
and Attitudes of Thai Tie Chew Chinese people in Thailand, 105 persons of Tie Chew
Chinese descent in Thailand, and the second sample group that studied language
changes of Tie Chew Chinese Dialect in Thailand in the numbers of 15 people. Both
groups were divided into 3 sub-groups according to the age as follows: 1) Group 1, age
under 25 years old 2) Group 2, age between 25 - 45 years old and 3) Group 3, age over
45 years old.
The research found that Language use and attitude of the sample population,
group 3, age over 45 years old, have the most fluency of language use and have a
positive attitude to the Tie Chew Chinese Dialect. On the other hand, the new
generation is the first group, age under 25 years old that have less than group 2 and 3.
For their attitudes toward their Tie Chew Chinese Dialect, they thought that Tie Chew
Chinese Dialect is more difficult than Thai. Although they agreed to preserve the Tie
Chew Chinese Dialect as well as groups 2 and 3, but all 3 groups chose to use Thai
instead. This study will show that although there are many Thai Tie Chew people in
Thailand, Tie Chew Chinese Dialect is not necessary in everyday life; therefore they
prefer using Thai instead. In addition, the language change of Tie Chew Chinese Dialect
found that all 3 informants groups of Tie Chew have the same syllable structure of Tie
Chew words. Their Tie Chew syllable structure is divided into 1) consonants 2) vowels
and 3) tones. The language changes found are 2 issues: the vowels change that found
only the oral vowels and the amount of the words use ability that the informants group
3 age over 45 have the highest vocabulary ability in Tie Chew, following the informants
group 2 age between 25 - 45 and the lowest is the informants group 3 age under 25.