Lower Chulym dialect

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Lower Chulym
Ӧс (июс) тили
Native to Russia
Region Siberia
EthnicityLower Chulyms
Extinct 2011 [1]
Turkic
Dialects
  • Küärik
  • Ketsik
  • Yezhi
  • Yatsi
  • Chibi
Language codes
ISO 639-3
clw-low
Glottolog lowe1396

Lower Chulym is a Turkic dialect of Chulym formerly spoken by the Chulyms on the lower course of the Chulym river and its tributaries, the Kiya and the Yaya in Russia. It went extinct in 2011.

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Research

When the Russian researcher Dulzon began to study Lower Chulym in the 1940s, the Lower Chulym Turks numbered no more than 250. In the 1990s, their Russification was nearly complete. The language is today, with no doubt, extinct. [2]

Classification

Lower Chulym is classified in the Siberian group of Turkic languages. Russian linguists consider it to be a dialect of Chulym, together with Middle Chulym. However, this question is still open.

It is sometimes classed with Northern Altai and the Kondoma dialect of Shor in a Northern Altai group. It also bears similarities with the Tom dialect of Siberian Tatar.

A third Turkic variety, Küärik, is spoken in the Chulym basin, north of Mariinsk. It is known from the work of Radloff, which come from around 1900. This dialect, which had disappeared by the time of Dulzon in 1940, was considered by Radloff to be identical to Lower Chulym. [3]

Phonology

Key: K - Küärik, LC - Lower Chulym

Labial Alveolar Palatal Velar Uvular Glottal
Nasal m n (K) ŋ
Stop voiceless p t (LC) k ʔ
voiced b d /g/
Fricative voiceless s ʃ / x // h /
voiced v z ʒ ɣ ( ʁ )
Affricate voiceless t͡s t͡ʃ
voiced d͡z (LC)
Approximant l j
Rhotic r

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References

  1. "Chulym Turkic" . Retrieved 2024-11-22. Currently, the Lower Chulym dialect is considered extinct (the last speaker, according to Valeria Lemskaya, died in 2011).
  2. Pomorska 2004, p. 13.
  3. Pomorska 2004, p. 12, note.

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