Tukita dialect

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Tukita
Tokita, [1] Tokitin [2]
Тукитинский диалект
Native to North Caucasus
RegionSouthern Dagestan
Ethnicity Karata
Native speakers
1,500 [3]
Northeast Caucasian
Cyrillic
Language codes
ISO 639-3 –
kpt-tok
Glottolog toki1238

The Tukita dialect is a dialect of the Karata language, common in the villages of Tukita in the Akhvakhsky District and Tukita in the Khasavyurtovsky District of the Republic of Dagestan. [4] It has significant differences in phonetics, morphology and vocabulary with the proper Karata dialect.

Linguistic characteristics

There are noticeable differences in the vocabulary (For example, Tukita "гьерса", Karata "лълъерсса", Russian "река", English "river", as well as Tukita "гьангъу", Karata "гьанда", Russian "холм, курган", English "hill, mound"). [5]

In the Tuktitan dialect, the formation of numerals is vegisimal (two-decimal), in contrast to decimal (ten-decimal) in Karatin proper. In cardinal numerals, the particle "-да" is absent (Tukita "кlекlи", Karata "кlеда", Russian "два", English "two"). The formation of the names of tens is also different. [6]

There are differences in pronominal adverbs (Tukita "гьуди", Karata "вудугу", Russian "там (вдали, по горизонтали)", English "there (far away, horizontally)"). [7]

The formant of the dative case in the Tukita dialect is "отцу", which coincides with the Akhvakh language ("иму лъа" — "отцу" - "to the father"). [8]

The weak ejective lateral afrikata [кьl] is absent. Tukita has a dorsal spirant [г], which is a variant of Karatin [хь]. The spirant [хь] itself is significantly palatalized. The palatalized consonants [г], [к], [кь] are represented. [6]

In the dialect, the affixes of personal pronouns and the vowel of the stem change ("мен" - "ты" - you, "мини" - "тебя" - "you"). [7]

The dialect is influenced by the Avar language. [7]

References

  1. ↑ "Tokita". Glottolog . Retrieved 7 September 2025.
  2. ↑ "Karata". LINGUIST List. Archived from the original on 20 December 2016. Retrieved 7 September 2025.
  3. ↑ "Тукитинский язык — родныеязыки.рф" (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2021-10-23. Retrieved 2025-09-08.
  4. ↑ "Тукитинский язык | Малые языки России". minlang.iling-ran.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2021-10-23. Retrieved 2025-09-08.
  5. ↑ "Географическая терминология в аварской топонимии". cyberleninka.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2021-10-20. Retrieved 2025-09-08.
  6. 1 2 "Сивухский говор в системе диалектов аваро-андо-цезской группы дагестанских языков". cyberleninka.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2021-10-18. Retrieved 2025-09-08.
  7. 1 2 3 "Особенности дейктической системы каратинского языка". cyberleninka.ru. Archived from the original on 2021-10-20. Retrieved 2021-10-20.
  8. ↑ "Форманты дательного падежа в ахвахском и каратинском языках". cyberleninka.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 2021-10-22. Retrieved 2025-09-08.
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