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<p></p><p dir="ltr">The Tai literature of Vietnam: verse narrative from the Southeast Asian oral tradition</p> Thi-Nham Le (25133561) NORBERT FRANCIS (24615369) Comparative language studies oral tradition poetry musical features rhyme pattern verse novel language contact <p dir="ltr">Recent fieldwork in the Tai-speaking districts of northern Vietnam has called attention to literary traditions that are shared with bordering communities in Laos. In an earlier report from the project the poetic and prosaic compositions, typically of the former, performed during public gatherings of significant cultural importance, were described as important sources of linguistic and cultural continuity. The oral tradition performances range from private family gatherings to large public events. Local language scholars preserve transcribed manuscripts and a number of field researchers, associated with this work of documentation, have uploaded a representative sample of the compositions on the internet. Historically, this corpus of Tai popular literature has developed over the many years in close contact with its counterpart in Vietnamese language. The thematic and formal parallels between the two lines of cultural inheritance have become evident from the work of field philologists and students of published Southeast Asian literature. Recent research presented in this summary of findings examines the relevant interactions focused on one art form in particular, from the Tai sung poetry tradition, known as <i>khặp</i>.</p> 2026-09-29T00:20:13Z Dataset Dataset 10.6084/m9.figshare.33342396.v1 https://figshare.com/articles/dataset/_p_p_p_dir_ltr_The_Tai_literature_of_Vietnam_verse_narrative_from_the_Southeast_Asian_oral_tradition_p_/33342396 CC BY 4.0