Международная научная конференция ЮВА в СПбГУ-65

Международная научная конференция, посвященная 65-й годовщине начала изучения языков ЮВА в нашей стране 86 Дмитренко С. Ю. S. Yu. Dmitrenko (Institute for Linguistic Studies, St Petersburg, dmitrserg@gmail.com ) GONGS IN KHMER CULTURE (SOME LINGUISTIC REMARKS) Abstract: The paper considers Khmer lexis associated with gongs. Gongs play a central part in the religious rites and musical culture of Cambodia as well as of other South-Eastern Asia nations. Khmers use both flat and bossed gongs, the former named k ɔ :ŋ chmọ:l ‘male gong’, and the latter, k ɔ :ŋ ɲ i: ‘female gong’. Other gong names, reflecting the instruments’formal/functional features, are r ɔ keaŋ, m ɒ :ŋ, and khm ʊ əh. Khmer gong-related lexis includes borrowings from Old Javanese, Chamic, Sanskrit, and Chinese as evidence of diverse cultural contacts. A range of other lexemes, however, reveal parallels in a number of Mon-Khmer and Tai languages. Keywords: gong, flat gong, bossed gong, khmer culture, etymology.