Kamas
Abstract Kamas is an extinct Samoyed language of Southern Siberia, most closely related to Selkup. In the extinct Sayan Samoyedic group it is the only language of which proper documentation survives. Its last speaker, Klavdia Plotnikova, died in 1989. Kamas was documented starting from the eighteent...
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Oxford University PressOxford
2022
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198767664.003.0039 https://academic.oup.com/book/chapter-pdf/47098050/oso-9780198767664-chapter-39.pdf |
| Summary: | Abstract Kamas is an extinct Samoyed language of Southern Siberia, most closely related to Selkup. In the extinct Sayan Samoyedic group it is the only language of which proper documentation survives. Its last speaker, Klavdia Plotnikova, died in 1989. Kamas was documented starting from the eighteenth century. Over centuries it had been in close contact with South Siberian Turkic languages, from the nineteenth century on also with Russian. There are two main dialects, Kamas proper and Koybal. The chapter provides an introduction into the grammar of Kamas, based on the main sources from the mid-nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth century. The chapter also addresses morphosyntactic parallels with Siberian Turkic, as well as the differences between traditional Kamas as documented until 1914 and terminal Kamas, documented in the 1960s and 1970s. |
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