The first Mari alphabet books of the meadow dialect (1870s): Part II. Features of Consonantism Cover Image

Первые марийские буквари (лугового наречия) 1870-х гг. Ч. 2. Особенности консонантизма
The first Mari alphabet books of the meadow dialect (1870s): Part II. Features of Consonantism

Author(s): Maria Klyucheva
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Phonetics / Phonology, Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Finno-Ugrian studies
Published by: Институт языкознания Российской академии наук
Keywords: Mari; the Finno-Ugric languages; written monuments; the Brotherhood of prelate Gury; historical phonetics; the Mari dialectology; consonant system; orthography;

Summary/Abstract: The author deals with the first alphabet books in the Mari language (the Meadow Mari dialect), which were published by the Brotherhood of prelate Gury in Kazan (1870 and 1873). The main concerns of the article are the specific features of denoting the Mari consonants in these written monuments and the dialectal and historical features of the Meadow Mari consonant system.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 04 (27)
  • Page Range: 113-137
  • Page Count: 25
  • Language: Russian