再论孟高棉语民族的起源

Re-exploration of the Origin of the Mon-Khmer Speaking Groups

孟高棉语诸民族是操南亚语系孟高棉语族语言的一个大族群,东南亚的孟高棉语诸民族主要分布在中南半岛地区。关于孟高棉语民族的起源,国内外虽然已有一些学者作过探讨,但目前还没有一致的看法。本文认为,这个群体既不是过去一些学者所认为的那样是从印度迁徙到他们现在居住的地方的,也不是另外一些学者所说的是东南亚的土著,而是从中国南方地区,特别是西南地区迁徙过去的。他们与中国史书中记载的濮人有着密切的关系。

The Mon-Khmer speaking groups are several ethnic groups or tribes liguistically belonging with the Austro-Asiatic language family, these groups live all over Southeast Asia, extending from Malaysia northwards to China, and from Burma eastwards to Vietnam. Where is the cradle of these groups？ It is still an issue to be resolved although a lot of scholars have conducted their researches on this topic. This paper is to give a new discussion on it from the author＇s own viewpoint.