Reconstructing phonetics behind the graphic system of Evenki texts from the Rychkov archive

This paper discusses the graphic system of manuscripts by Konstantin Rychkov (ca. 1910) containing texts in several dialects of Evenki (Tungusic) with Russian translation. The letters г and һ arguably denote voiced velars or post-velars, stops and fricatives alike. The former is only used before fro...

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Published in:Rhema
Main Authors: A.V. Arkhipov, С.L. Däbritz
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Russian
Published: Moscow Pedagogical State University, Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education 2021
Subjects:
evenki language
graphic system
phonetics
velar
laryngeal
sibilants
palatalization
handwritten text recognition
Philology. Linguistics
P1-1091
Evenki
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.31862/2500-2953-2021-2-46-64
https://doaj.org/article/7e43cf3f2048468b809ebbac43e655a3
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Summary:This paper discusses the graphic system of manuscripts by Konstantin Rychkov (ca. 1910) containing texts in several dialects of Evenki (Tungusic) with Russian translation. The letters г and һ arguably denote voiced velars or post-velars, stops and fricatives alike. The former is only used before front vowels, the latter otherwise. The letter һ is also found quite often in place of the velar nasal. Palatalization is denoted by three means: a dedicated diacritic after the consonant, an umlaut on the vowel, or the vowel і/ы alternation. Russian letters for hissing sibilants were substituted with Latin ones by Rychkov, which might reflect a different (“lisping”) pronounciation. A special diacritic under sibilants and б probably indicates semi-voicing.

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