On Dolgan haŋa ‘One’s Elder Brother’s Wife’
Abstract Dolgan is essentially a dialect of Yakut, but for ethno-historical and administrative reasons counted as a separate language. One of the basic phonetic differences between Dolgan and Yakut is the h- (< s- < y- and č- ) in Dolgan vs. s- (< y- and č- ) in Yakut. In other...
| Published in: | International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics |
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Brill
2020
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/25898833-12340035 https://brill.com/view/journals/jeal/2/2/article-p229_3.xml https://brill.com/downloadpdf/journals/jeal/2/2/article-p229_3.xml |
| Summary: | Abstract Dolgan is essentially a dialect of Yakut, but for ethno-historical and administrative reasons counted as a separate language. One of the basic phonetic differences between Dolgan and Yakut is the h- (< s- < y- and č- ) in Dolgan vs. s- (< y- and č- ) in Yakut. In other words, the initial secondary s of Yakut developed further into h in Dolgan. Up to the present, only haŋas (< saŋas < * yeŋ(g)eč ) with the diminutive suffix -s (< * -č ) was known to us as the Dolgan word for ‘elder brother’s wife’. Now, we know the form haŋa without the diminutive suffix -s thanks to the fieldwork studies on Dolgan of the ASK REAL (The Altaic Society of Korea, Researches on the Endangered Altaic Languages). |
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