Reindeer Lexicon in Ural Languages in the Context of Language Contacts

• Published in: Ethnic Culture
• Main Author: Sergey A. Myznikov
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Russian
• Published: Publishing house "Sreda" 2022
• Subjects: Khanty; Komi; Mansi; Nenets Ob-Ugric; Perm; Sami; litt; lang; khanty; Komi language; mansi; nenets; reindeer husbandry; sami; samoyed*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.31483/r-99997; https://doaj.org/article/2e6420bdf61c4ac99a9bfeebcdab5431

This paper provides an overview of the study of reindeer husbandry and vocabulary associated with it on the material of the Uralic languages. The article is based on the methods of etymological and comparative analysis. The source base of the research was the dictionary materials and personal observations of the author. The purpose of this work is to analyze the reindeer herding vocabulary in the context of the linguistic contacts of the Ural peoples. It is noted that the systematic study of various aspects of reindeer husbandry based on the material of different ethnic groups began in the second half of the 20th century. The most important for the analysis are the materials of the Samoyed languages, in particular the Nenets, whose influence extended to adjacent linguistic continua. There is a section on reindeer husbandry in the context of interethnic and interlingual contacts, since the latter is often the result of economic and interethnic contacts. In a number of cases, the Nenets were the source of distribution of certain methods of using reindeer. An attempt was made to comprehensively analyze the Northern Russian dialect borrowed data, possible etymons that are recorded in the Komi language, the Baltic-Finnish, Ob-Ugric languages, as well as in the Samoyed languages. The interaction of the Samoyed, Perm and Ob-Ugric continuums is noted on the data of the vocabulary of reindeer husbandry.