Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale

Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale is a specialist peer-reviewed academic journal devoted to the study of languages and linguistics in East Asia and the surrounding Asian regions. Established in 1978, the journal publishes research on the structure, history, classification, and use of a broad range of Asian languages. Its scope includes generative syntax, linguistic typology, phonetics, phonology, and historical linguistics, making it relevant to both theoretically oriented linguists and scholars working on language documentation, comparison, and diachronic change. The journal's geographic and genealogical remit is unusually broad for a specialist publication. Its coverage includes languages belonging to the Sino-Tibetan, Austroasiatic, Austronesian, Hmong-Mien, Kra-Dai, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic families, in addition to dedicated work on Japanese, Korean, and Ainu. This range allows the journal to serve as a venue for research that places individual languages within wider regional, typological, or historical frameworks. Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale publishes material in English, French, and Mandarin Chinese. Its multilingual format reflects the journal's regional and scholarly orientation, while also connecting research communities working across different academic traditions. The publication is issued by Brill, an international academic publisher, and is indexed in Scopus, providing exposure through a major bibliographic and abstracting service. The journal also has an important archival dimension. Articles published before 2007 have been made freely accessible through the Persée platform, and back issues covering volumes 1 through 42, up to 2012, are available through Persée. These arrangements preserve access to the journal's earlier scholarship while its Brill platform serves as the primary publisher-facing source for current information and journal content. As a scholarly journal rather than a consumer-facing commercial brand, its principal offerings are research articles, issues, archival content, and related academic publishing services.

Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale was established in 1978 as a scholarly journal dedicated to the linguistic study of East Asian languages and related language families. From its beginning, the publication developed a regional and comparative remit rather than limiting itself to a single language, country, or theoretical school. Its subject coverage encompasses formal analysis, typology, speech sounds, sound systems, and historical change. The journal's research territory extends across numerous language families found in East and Southeast Asia, including Sino-Tibetan, Austroasiatic, Austronesian, Hmong-Mien, Kra-Dai, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic. It also publishes work on Japanese, Korean, and Ainu. This combination of genealogical breadth and regional focus gives the journal a role in connecting language-specific research with broader questions about linguistic structure, contact, classification, and historical development. Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale publishes articles in English, French, and Mandarin Chinese. The multilingual policy supports participation by scholars working in different academic and linguistic communities and is consistent with the journal's focus on Asian language research. Its peer-reviewed format positions it as a research venue rather than a general-interest publication. The journal is published by Brill. Over time, its contents have become available through both the publisher's online platform and digital archival services. Material published before 2007 is available without charge through Persée, while Persée also provides back issues for volumes 1 through 42, extending through 2012. These archives make a substantial portion of the journal's earlier publication history accessible to researchers and preserve the development of scholarship represented in its first decades. The journal is indexed in Scopus, an important international abstracting and indexing database. This indexing increases the discoverability of its research within academic literature databases and reinforces its position within the international linguistics publishing ecosystem. The available reference material does not identify a founder, editor-in-chief, editorial board members, headquarters, circulation figures, subscription revenue, or specific publication frequency. The journal's documented identity is therefore principally defined by its subject scope, multilingual peer-review model, Brill publication relationship, archival availability, and continuing presence as a specialist academic title.

• 2012

  Persée archive reaches volume 42

  [1]Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientaleen.wikipedia.org

  Persée provides back issues covering volumes 1 through 42, with the listed archive extending through 2012.

• 2007

  Pre-2007 archive made freely accessible through Persée

  [1]Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientaleen.wikipedia.org

  Articles published before 2007 became available through the Persée digital archive, expanding access to the journal's earlier scholarship.

• 1978

  Journal established

  [1]Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientaleen.wikipedia.org

  Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale was founded as a peer-reviewed journal devoted to linguistics and the languages of East Asia.

A specialist international research journal for rigorous, peer-reviewed scholarship on the languages and linguistics of East Asia and neighboring Asian language areas.

• Academic journal · 1978

  Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale journal issues

  The journal's core offering is a continuing series of peer-reviewed issues containing original research on Asian linguistics. Articles address formal and descriptive questions across syntax, typology, phonetics, phonology, and historical linguistics. The publication covers a wide range of language families and individual languages, including Sino-Tibetan, Austroasiatic, Austronesian, Hmong-Mien, Kra-Dai, Tungusic, Mongolic, Turkic, Japanese, Korean, and Ainu. Content is published in English, French, and Mandarin Chinese.

• Digital archive

  Persée digital archive

  Persée hosts freely accessible archival material from the journal, including articles published before 2007 and back issues covering volumes 1 through 42, listed through 2012. The archive provides researchers with access to the publication's earlier scholarship and supports historical and bibliographic research on Asian linguistics.

1. 1Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientaleen.wikipedia.org
2. 2Cahiers de Linguistique Asie Orientale at Brillbrill.com