Forest Enets and Tundra Enets : how different are they and why?

• Main Authors: Khanina, Olesya, Shluinsky, Andrey
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: English
• Published: Helsingin yliopiston kirjasto 2022
• Subjects: Tundra Enets; Forest Enets; kielitiede; samojedikielet; enetsin kieli; kielentutkimus; linguistics; Samoyedic languages; Enets language; language research; Enets; samojed*; samoyed*; Tundra
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10138/342418; https://doi.org/10.31885/9789515180858.16

With this paper, we aim to summarize linguistic facts on the similarity or the difference between the two Enets lects. Indeed, a full account of the linguistic differences between the two Enets has never been provided. Scholars of Enets have referred to a handful of evident diverging reflexes of Proto-Northern-Samoyed phonemes and a dozen of non-cognate lexemes with identical meanings, without going any further (Prokof’ev 1937; Tereščenko 1966; Helimski 1984/2000). The grammatical features of Forest and Tundra Enets have never been systematically compared.