Mo, do, so, da – duortnussámi dovdomearkan?

In this article, I examine the dialect forms of a set of North Saami pronouns – mo, do, so, da (‘I, you, he/she, it’; standardized forms: mon, don, son, dan). More specifically, I investigate where the forms are in use and how the forms have developed. The material shows that the final -n has change...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:Nordlyd
Main Author: Antonsen, Lene
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:Sami languages
Published: Septentrio Academic Publishing 2022
Subjects:
VDP::Humaniora: 000::Språkvitenskapelige fag: 010::Samisk språk: 031
VDP::Humanities: 000::Linguistics: 010::Sami language: 031
Dialektologi / Dialectology
Nordsamisk / North Sami
Språkendring / Language change
Kvænangen
Norway
saami
sami
samisk
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10037/28281
https://doi.org/10.7557/12.6394
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Summary:In this article, I examine the dialect forms of a set of North Saami pronouns – mo, do, so, da (‘I, you, he/she, it’; standardized forms: mon, don, son, dan). More specifically, I investigate where the forms are in use and how the forms have developed. The material shows that the final -n has changed in a number of stages before it disappeared completely. I suggest that these pronominal forms are a dialect mark of the Torne Saami dialect group (named after the Torne river valley on the border between Sweden and Finland). The pronominal forms are used throughout this dialect area, and the use continues north to Kvænangen in Norway, which in turn belongs to the Sea Sami dialect group. In the Kvænangen dialect there are also a couple of other characteristics that are typical for some of the Torne Saami dialects.

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