The first Meadow Mari alphabet books (1870s): a linguistic review. Cover Image

Первые луговомарийские буквари 1870-х гг.:лингвистический обзор.
The first Meadow Mari alphabet books (1870s): a linguistic review.

Part I. Introduction. Vowels and letters for them

Author(s): Maria Klyucheva, Juliya Victorovna Normanskaya
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Институт языкознания Российской академии наук
Keywords: Mari; the Finno-Ugric languages; written monuments; the Brotherhood of St. Gury; historical phonetics; the Mari dialectology; vowel system; orthography

Summary/Abstract: The author deals with the first alphabet books in the Mari language (the Meadow Mari dialect), which were published bythe Brotherhood of St. Gury in Kazan (1870 and 1873). The specific features of denoting of the Mari vowels in these writtenmonuments and the dialectal and historical features of the Meadow Mari vowel system are studied in the article.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 03 (18)
  • Page Range: 18-63
  • Page Count: 46
  • Language: Russian