Buryat Historical Phonetics in Seventeenth-Century Russian-Language Documents: Problem Statement Approached. Part One

• Published in: Монголоведение (Монгол судлал)
• Main Authors: Vladimir V. Tishin, Bair Z. Nanzatov
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Mongolian; Russian
• Published: Российской академии наук, Калмыцкий научный центр 2023
• Subjects: buryat language; buryat dialects; historical phonetics; mongolic languages; ethnonymy; onomastics; History of Asia; DS1-937; Political institutions and public administration - Asia (Asian studies only); JQ1-6651; Evenki; Yakut
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.22162/2500-1523-2023-1-142-157; https://doaj.org/article/c0e0614e39374459b82a4d75ef0f0799

Introduction. It is in the mid-to-late 18th century at latest that the main phonetic characteristics of Buryat that distinguish the latter from other Mongolic languages — reflected in its western and eastern dialects — took shape. The initial period that had witnessed the formation of these specific...