Диалектная основа первых удмуртских переводов Евангелия от Иоанна
Dialect basis of the first Udmurt translations of the Gospel of John

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the morphological features of the first manuscript translations of the Gospel of John made at the beginning of the 19th century. The aim of the study is to determine the dialect basis of these sources. The paper describes the main grammatical categories of the noun (number, possessiveness, case) and verb (voice, mood, tense) as well as non-finite forms of the verb (infinitive, participle, gerund). The study is based on the corpus of handwritten texts that includes the first Udmurt translations of the Gospel of John, stored in the St. Petersburg branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences and in the Russian State Historical Archive. The analysis has been carried out by comparing the linguistic data collected from the sources with the Udmurt literary language and its dialects in order to determine the innovative or archaic nature of the features identified in the sources under analysis. The analysis reveals a number of innovations, which indicate the dialect affiliation of the written records. The correlation of these features with modern Udmurt dialects suggests that the Upper-Cheptsa and Middle-Cheptsa dialects of the Northern dialect are the basis of the manuscripts. The sources also witness to a number of archaisms, which today can no longer be found in the Northern Udmurt dialects. In addition, in the texts under analysis, as well as in other written sources of this period, the spelling norm can clearly be traced, according to which the morphological indicators with an и initial are attached to stems ending in vowels and soft consonants, and in other cases the ы formants are used.

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