Analysis of the vowels of the first syllable in two Cyrillic-script Buryat written monuments Cover Image

Анализ гласных первого слога в двух кириллических памятниках письменности на бурятском языке
Analysis of the vowels of the first syllable in two Cyrillic-script Buryat written monuments

Author(s): Polina P. Dambueva, Juliya Victorovna Normanskaya
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Phonetics / Phonology
Published by: Институт языкознания Российской академии наук
Keywords: Buryat language; Tunkinsky dialect; short vowels; graphemes of the first syllable; reflexes of the Pramongol language; phonetic analysis;

Summary/Abstract: The article describes two literary monuments in the Buryat language, written using the Cyrillic alphabet in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It identifies dialect affiliation of the texts, describes short vowels in them in comparison with graphemes in the Proto-Mongolic forms, while using field data on the modern Tunkin dialect of Buryat.

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 02 (29)
  • Page Range: 30-43
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Russian