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Dolgan | |
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Дулҕан, Dulğan, Һака, Haka | |
Pronunciation | [dɔlgæn] |
Native to | Russia |
Region | Krasnoyarsk Krai |
Ethnicity | Dolgans |
Native speakers | 1,100 (2010 census) [1] |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | dlg |
Glottolog | dolg1241 |
ELP | Dolgan |
Yakut Language (blue) and Dolgan Language (green) | |
Dolgan is classified as Definitely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger |
The Dolgan language is a severely endangered Turkic language with 930 speakers, [2] spoken in the Taymyr Peninsula in Russia. [3] The speakers are known as the Dolgans. The word "Dolgan", derived from Evenki, means 'tribe living on the middle reaches of the river'. This is most likely signifying the geographical location of the Dolgan tribe. [4] Its closest relative is Sakha.
The language is very local and restricted to a certain area and has declined in usage over the years. As of 2010 there are only about 1,050 speakers of the language. [1] The language has expressed a few changes since the beginning of its formation, such as alphabet and phrasing terms. The issue as of recently has become the weak integration of this local language within families with mixed marriages. Instead of speaking either of the parents' local languages, the family incorporates Russian as the more dominant language to ease interfamilial and external communication. [5] This results in children learning the language only slightly or as a second language. Over generations, the language continues to fade. In 1999, however, some children were apparently learning Dolgan, with Russian also being learned at an early age. [6]
Dolgan, along with its close relative Sakha (Yakut), belongs to the North Siberian subbranch of the Turkic language family. Like most other Turkic languages, Dolgan has vowel harmony, agglutinative morphology, subject-object-verb word order, and lacks grammatical gender. Dolgan is linguistically relatively close to its nearest relative Sakha (also known as Yakut), which has led researchers for a long time to account for it as a variety of the latter, cf. Dolgich's (1963: 129) statement in his well-known paper on the origin of the Dolgans: " ... долганский язык является диалектом якутского языка." ‘[ ...] the Dolgan language is a dialect of the Yakut language.’. Only in 1985 did Elizaveta Ubryatova account for Dolgan as a separate language, namely in her monograph on the language of the Norilsk Dolgans.
Dolgan: "Uskuolaga üörenebin." | Yakut: "Oskuolaga üörenebin." | Literal English translation: "(I am) studying at school." |
Dolgan is established as a dominant language in the Taymyr Peninsula.
Three Dolgan subgroups:
All dialects are understood among each other, despite subtle differences. Yakut is also understood among all since it is so similar.[ citation needed ]
The Dolgan language started out having a Latin alphabet in the early 20th century. Over time, the Cyrillic alphabet was implemented instead since it is the same alphabet used by the related language, Yakut. Evenki's influence on Dolgan can explain, in part, why it is considered a separate language from Yakut. [8] Dolgan has made appearances in newspapers, such as the Taymyr, as well as schools starting around the time of the 60s. [3] However, now there are only around 1,050 speakers of the Dolgan language.
Certain words in the language were developed from geographical implications that have been present since the start of the Dolgan language. For instance, the directional terms tās (1. south 2. east) and muora (1. north 2. west) are representative of the corresponding landscapes. [9] Tās is related to the word stone, and the southeast topography of the native region, Taymyr Peninsula, is covered by the Putorana Mountains. Similarly, muora denotes "sea" where the western zone of Taymyr has access to the sea shore.
However, this is not true for all directional terms, nor all words of the Dolgan language. Southwest, uhä, and northeast, allara, have no significance in geographical terms relative to Taymyr.
The composition of morphological categories in the noun is: case, number, possession, and in the verb is: voice, aspect, mode, time, person and number. Dolgan language exhibits eight grammatical cases. In contrast in the Sakha language (i.e. Yakut), the partitive is used in the possessive declension to address the accusative case, and joint case serves to structure two similar parts of a sentence. Another notable difference from Sakha is that Dolgan does not have comitative case. In conjugation of a verb in the common form of -ааччы, the paradigms of Dolgan inclination were preserved with the word баар.
The table below lists case forms for the noun табаdeer (camel in Common Turkic):
Interrogative | Suffix | таба | |
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Nominative | Ким? Туок? | ∅ | таба |
Accusative | Кими? Туогу? | -ни, -ны, -ну, -нү | табаны |
Partitive | Кимнэ? Туокта? | -та, -тэ, -то, -тө | табата |
Dative-Locative | Кимиэкэ? Туокка? Кайдиэк? Канна? Төһөгө? | -га, -ге, -го, -гө, -гар, -гер, -гор, -гөр, -р | табага |
Ablative | Кимтэн? Туоктан? Кайдиэгиттэн? Кантан? | -ттан, -ттэн, -ттон, -ттөн | табаттан |
Instrumental | Киминэн? Туогунан? Канан? | -ннан, -ннэн, -ннон, -ннөн | табаннан |
Comparative | Кимнээгэр? Туоктаагар? | -таагар, -тээгэр, -тоогор, -төгөөр | табатаагар |
Comitative (obsolete) | Кимниин? Туоктуун? | -лыын [lower-alpha 1] | табалыын |
Front | Back | |||
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Close | i iː | y yː | ɯ ɯ ː | u uː |
Mid | e eː | ø øː | o oː | |
Open | a aː |
Bilabial | Dental | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
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Plosive | voiceless | p | t | c | k | |
voiced | b | d | ɟ | ɡ | ||
Fricative | s | ɣ | h | |||
Affricate | voiceless | tʃ | ||||
voiced | dʒ | |||||
Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
Liquid | r | |||||
Approximant | l | j |
Dolgan has the following phonetic characteristics:
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Over time, the language itself has changed and adapted. Even during the time period when it had a Cyrillic alphabet, it changed over the years. The first version of alphabet of the language had the following appearance: А а, Б б, В в, Г г, Д д, Дь дь, Е е, Ё ё, Ж ж, З з, И и, Иэ иэ, Й й, К к, Л л, М м, Н н, Ӈ ӈ, Нь нь, О о, Ө ө, П п, Р р, С с, Т т, У у, Уо уо, Ү ү, Үө үө, Ф ф, Х х, Һ һ, Ц ц, Ч ч, Ш ш, Щ щ, Ъ ъ, Ы ы, Ыа ыа, Ь ь, Э э, Ю ю, Я я. [11]
The current Dolgan alphabet is still Cyrillic and looks as follows:
А а | Б б | В в | Г г | Д д | Е е | Ё ё | Ж ж |
З з | И и | Й й | К к | Һ һ | Л л | М м | Н н |
Ӈ ӈ | О о | Ө ө | П п | Р р | С с | Т т | У у |
Ү ү | Ф ф | Х х | Ц ц | Ч ч | Ш ш | Щ щ | Ъ ъ |
Ы ы | Ь ь | Э э | Ю ю | Я я |
There is limited literature in Dolgan. One of the most recent publications is a bilingual Dolgan-Russian book "Булуус Да Ирэр" ("Even Permafrost Melts"), published in 2024.
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