Уточнение праселькупской реконструкции гласных первого слога. Часть II. Анализ архивных аудиоматериалов по тогурскому говору среднеобского диалекта селькупского языка
Clarification of the Protoselkup reconstruction of vowels of the first syllable. Part II. Analysis of archival audio materials on the Togur sub-dialect of the Middle-Ob dialect of Selkup

Summary/Abstract: In the article we discuss some evidence for the existence of long vowels in Proto-Selkup. These vowels are preserved in the Selkup dialects. We have analyzed the audio recordings of the Togur dialect of the middle Ob subdialect of the Selkup language, which were collected in phonetic laboratory in Novosibirsk in 1973 from Fiona Tobolzhina (born in 1911), using Praat phonetic software. The resulting glossary is currently available online at http://lingvodoc.ispras.ru. We have found that minimal pairs for long and short vowels exist in this dialect. While analyzing the Togur dialect wordlist and comparing it to E. Helimski’s Middle Taz dictionary we have found out that the length of vowels in these dialects coincide, regardless of their speakers living geographically far from each other, indicating its Proto-Selkup character, which is very accurately presented in the dictionary of J. Alatalo. Further analysis of Proto-Selkup vowel length and comparing it with the Nenets data showed that it has the Proto-Samoyedic character and was relevant for the development of vowels from Proto-Uralic to Proto-Samoyedic.

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