The paper here presents an etymological research of WIFE and HUSBAND in Hmong-Mien languages from the perspective of diachronic linguistics and anthropological linguistics.
文章从历史语言学和人类语言学的角度对苗瑶语中"丈夫"和"妻子"这两个亲属称谓的源流进行考察。
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It is this social parameter and the pragmatic factor that led to the diversity of word forms for WIFE and HUSBAND in the present Hmong-Mien languages.