Vocalism of the Chuvash dialects in Peter Pallas’s Dictionary Cover Image

Отражение вокализма чувашских диалектов в «Сравнительном словаре» П. С. Палласа
Vocalism of the Chuvash dialects in Peter Pallas’s Dictionary

Author(s): Alexandr V. Savelyev
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Phonetics / Phonology, Semantics
Published by: Институт языкознания Российской академии наук
Keywords: the Chuvash language; Pallas’s Dictionary; historical phonology; vocalism; dialectology

Summary/Abstract: The article gives a detailed analysis of the Chuvash vocalism reflected in Pallas’s Dictionary that dates back to the XVIII century. It is established that the dictionary’s orthography reflects quite unambiguously the features of both the Viryal and Anatri dialects of the Chuvash language. A number of dictionary entries preserve archaic features of the Chuvash vocalism that are not attested in the later records.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 01 (8)
  • Page Range: 034-054
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Russian