Arin | |
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Ar, Ara | |
Native to | Russia |
Region | Yenisei River |
Ethnicity | Arin people |
Extinct | late 1730s, with the death of Arzamas Loskutov [1] |
Dené–Yeniseian?
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Early form | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | xrn |
xrn | |
Glottolog | arin1243 |
![]() Map of pre-contact Yeniseian languages. Arin is in blue. |
Arin is an extinct Yeniseian language formerly spoken in Russia by the Arin people along the Yenisei River, predominantly on its left shore, between Yeniseysk and Krasnoyarsk, [3] north of the Minusinsk region. However, it has been suggested that the Arin people had historically occupied a larger geographical range. It became extinct in the 18th century, [3] [4] with the death of Arzamas Loskutov, [1] who was an informant for Gerhard Friedrich Müller in 1731, [5] and for a Cossack adventurer named Ivan Kovrigin in 1735. [6] [1]
It is believed that the term Ar or Ara was used by speakers of Arin to refer to themselves. [3]
It is classified as belonging to the Arinic branch, being its only attested language. [7] The closest known relative of Arin, Pumpokol, has been suggested to be similar to the language of the ruling elite of the Xiongnu, [8] [9] as well as that of the Jie ruling class of the Later Zhao dynasty. [10]
Hydronyms associated with Arin have the suffixes -set, -igai, -lat, -zat, -zet and -sat (meaning "river") and -kul'/-kul (meaning "water"). [11] These hydronyms, along with Khanty folklore telling of an eastern people known as the ar-jäx "Ar people", indicate that Arin may have once been spread out as far west as the Ob. [3] [7]
One notable aspect of the Arin phonology is the correspondence of words starting with the word-initial k- and words in other Yeniseian languages that start with a bare vowel. For example, the Arin word kul (meaning 'water') corresponds to the Ket word uˑl’ and the Kott word ûl. [12] This feature of Arin allows for far more accurate reconstructing of the Proto-Yeniseian language by historical linguistics, for instance, the Proto-Yeniseian term for "water" is reconstructed as *xuɬ, where the initial *x- could not be inferred if not for Arin attestation.
The vowel system in Arin is as follows: [11]
Front | Central | Back | |
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Close | i | ɨ | u |
Close-mid | e | o | |
Open-mid | ɛ | ( ʌ )1 | ɔ |
Open | æ | a |
Labial | Dental | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Laryngeal/ Pharyngeal | |||||
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plain | pal. | plain | pal. | plain | pal. | |||||
Plosive | voiceless | p [ p ] | pʼh [ pʲ ] | t [ t ] | tʼ[ tʲ ] | k [ k ] | kʼ[ kʲ ] | q [ q ] | qʼ [ qʲ ] | (ʔ [ ʔ ])1 |
voiced | b [ b ] | d [ d ] | dʼ[ dʲ ] | g [ g ] | ||||||
Fricative | voiceless | (f [ f ]) | s [ s ] š [ ʃ ] | sʼ[ sʲ ] | x [ χ ] | (h [ h ]) | ||||
voiced | (v [ v ]) | z [ z ] ž [ ʒ ] | ||||||||
Affricate | c [ t͡s ] | č [ t͡ʃ ] (dž [ d͡ʒ ]) | ||||||||
Nasal | m [ m ] | mʼ[ mʲ ] | n [ n ] | nʼ [ nʲ ] | ŋ [ ŋ ] | |||||
Lateral | l [ l ] | lʼ [ lʲ ] | ||||||||
Approximant | j [ j ] | |||||||||
Trill | r [ r ] | (rʼ [ rʲ ]) |
Consonants in parentheses are sparsely attested or unattested.
There are 11 palatal-nonpalatal consonant oppositions. [11]
Etymological analysis suggests that speakers of the Arin language, as with other members of the Yeniseian people, were bilingual in Siberian Turkic languages; for example, the Arin word teminkur (meaning "ore") has been suggested to stem from the Old Turkic compound word *tämir qān (meaning "iron blood"). [13] There are over 400 lexica for the Arin language, recorded in the 18th century. [5]
Arin words in Pallas 1789 [14] | |||||||||
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Russian gloss | бог | небо | вечер | лес | глина | поле | снег | ветер | вино |
English translation | God | sky, heaven | evening | forest | clay | field | snow | spirit | wine |
Arin translation | еc | эc | пись | още | тьюбурунг | кья́ба | тье | паи | арага́ |
Arin body parts in Pallas 1789 [14] | |||||||||||||||||
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Russian gloss | волос | голова | ухо | глаз | нос | рот | язык | щёки | борода | плечо | рука | пальцы | нога | живот | спина | плоть | сердце |
English translation | hair | head | ear | eye | nose | mouth | tongue | cheek | beard | shoulder | hand | fingers | leg | stomach | back | flesh | heart |
Arin translation | кья́ганг | колкья | уткьэно́нг | тенг | аркӷуй | бюкьо́н | алъяп | быкӷолю́нг | королеп | хинанг | пъӷяга | кӷо́лпас | пил | пъӷорга | кӷоп | ис | шеноугбу |
Arin family member words in Pallas 1789 [14] | ||||||||||||
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Russian gloss | отец | мать | сын | дочь | брат | сестра | муж | жена | девочка | мальчик | дитя | человек |
English translation | father | mother | son | daughter | brother | sister | husband | wife | girl | boy | child | human, person |
Arin translation | ипя, бъяп | бя́мя | бикял | бик-ялья | бамага́л | бамагалья | бикъярьят | бикӷама́л | бикъялья | бикъял | алполат | кьит |
No. | Numerals (Werner 2005) | Numerals (Pallas 1789) |
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1 | qusej | Кг̧узей |
2 | kina | Ки́на |
3 | tʼoŋa | Тьюнга |
4 | šája ~ šaga ~ šeja | Ша́га |
5 | qala ~ qaga ~ kala | Ка́ла |
6 | ögga ~ ɨga ~ ɛge | Эгга |
7 | ɨnʼa ~ ona ~ una | Ыньа |
8 | kinamančau | Кинаманчау́ |
9 | qusamančau | Кг̧усаманчау |
10 | qoa | Кг̧оа |
11 | qóa-qúsa | |
12 | qóa-kina | |
13 | qóa-tʼoŋa | |
14 | qoa-šaja | |
15 | qoa-qala | |
16 | qoa-ögga | |
17 | qoa-ɨnʼa | |
18 | qoa-kinamančaú | |
19 | qoa-qusamančau | |
20 | kintʼuŋ | |
30 | tʼoŋtʼuːŋ | |
40 | šájtʼuːŋ | |
50 | qaltʼuːŋ | |
60 | ögtʼuːŋ ~ uj-tuŋ | |
70 | ɨ́ntʼuŋ | |
80 | kina-mančaútʼuːŋ | |
90 | qusamančautʼuːŋ | |
100 | jus | Іусь |
200 | kin-jus | |
300 | tʼoŋ-jus | |
1000 | qo-jus |