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JACK RUETER
University of Helsinki
Towa rds a s y ste matic
ch ar ac te riz a ti on o f di al e c t
va ri ati on i n t he E r z y a-s pea k ing
worl d: I sog l os ses an d th e ir
re f l exes a t te s te d in and
around the Dubyonki Raion
Abstract This paper is directed at developing research meth-
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the development of Erzya dialect research according to the most
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are utilized in the basic analysis of dialect characteristics attested
Mordvin languages in the eld. 109–148.
Uralica Helsingiensia 10. Helsinki 2016.
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Introduction
often questions posed regarding the number of ethnic groups and lan-
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tion requires further study before they can be properly situated in the
The term
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On lexical diversity
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these have subsequently been used in attempts to bolster discussions
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searching for ancient vocabulary to enhance their literary descriptions
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guage that this author has been able to locate are multilingual vocabu-
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By simply counting the number of articles attesting to the pres-
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Article sets Erzya Moksha Union Intersection
In numbers Percent
Stem articles
Macro articles
Table 1. Anity of the Erzya and Moksha vocabulary
in the Mordwinisches Wörterbuch.
POS Erzya Moksha U
A
Adv
Conj
Interj
N
Num
Pcle
Po
Pron
Prop
Qnt
V
Stem
Misc.
Total
Table 2. Affinity of Erzya and Moksha root vocabulary
in the Mordwinisches Wörterbuch by part-of-speech.
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POS Erzya Moksha U
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Adv
CC
CS
Det
Ger
Interj
N
Num
Pcle
Po
Prc
Pron
Prop
Qnt
V
VGen
Stem
Misc. 48 18 18 37% 48
Total
Table 3. Anity of Erzya and Moksha stem vocabulary
in the Mordwinisches Wörterbuch by part-of-speech.
Subject
Object
Mutual non-ambiguous functionsSg1 Pl1 Sg2 Pl2 Sg3 Pl3 0
Sg1
Pl1
Sg2
Pl2
Sg3
Pl3
Table 4. Mutual non-ambiguity of function-formants
in the rst preterite of Erzya and Moksha.
On verbal diversity
functional statistics demonstrating the disambiguation requirement of
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language manifests non-ambiguity in the formants indicating singular
On nominal diversity
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tion might have been different if the popularization of the literary lan-
The study of Erzyan dialects
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Language Case Number Indef Def PxSg1 PxSg2 PxSg3
Erzya
-Om
-OT
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-Om
Moksha
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dididi
dididi
Table 5. Non-correlation in core case marking strategies of Erzya and Moksha.
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Shoksha dialect
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Isoglosses
Comparative phonological isoglosses
Vowels
The Erzya literary language has a neutralized representation of
The Er zya diale c ts in the
“Mordwinisches Wörterbuch”
to administrative district divisions or more feasibly as areas associ-
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Insar dialect
Alatyr dialect
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Sura dialect
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sO/ as in //
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/ as in / /
and /
The Erzya literary language contains a minimal inventory for
o/ and //
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subgroups of all the Erzya dialects
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upper-case “OsO/ and /O
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“OO-
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ll
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ll
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i/ and /i/ in Erzya has been contested in Western stud-
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i/ and /i/ is in
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lisan
a/ or //
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illative morpheme “
a/ and /
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ndi
ndi
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sl|l
/ is either retained or there is a pos-
sible affrication in /
/d/ occurs after /n/ in the oblique case and nominative plu-
Morphological
The Erzya literary norm regularly attests to /-
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and /
cases/
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/-
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ited in the Erzya literary language to the nominative case of the
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Consonants
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s has become soft /
literary norm but /
/ and / / has
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by /
the literary language is represented by // becomes
depalatalization after hard /
are
attested in /w/ and /j
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tive derivation ending is generally realized as /-Ow
´ /
Voiceless liquids and sonorants are not attested in the Erzya liter-
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/ is attested for all numbers
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is attested for all numbers and cases
-Oms
/-Omsms
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/
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may be hypothesized to
// // //
// // //
Table 6. Distinctive marking for number of possessa
with rst person singular possessor indices.
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-Om
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-OT/ is attested for
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// formant is attested in all
the genitive singular form of inanimate possessa is the same as
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Fieldwork Documentation
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a/ and /
-Tano-Tam/
-Tano/ formant for
older formant / -
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Tam
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da
In prep a rati on for fi eldw ork
in the Dubyonki Raion
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Kabayevo
attested in
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realized as / as /
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l
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/l /
/i
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The Kabayevo subgroup according to Feoktistov
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tributed to this subgroup:
da/
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and
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multiple religious persuasions
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only //
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-Oms
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Povodimovo
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-OT
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/ even in front-
is represented by /-Ow/ and /-Oj/
´ / have been
sl|l
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tests to no phonetic change in /l|l
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gular: // and /
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//
/ l /
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-Om
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//:
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//
-Oms
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/l
Comparative locale
singular determinate formant in // and the distinction for number in
is represented by /-Ow/ and /-Oj
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Oj /
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´ / have been
s l|l
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can attest affrication in / l|l
voiceless fricatives can especially be attested in the fricatives /s/
and /-
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// and its equiva-
-Om/
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*-OT
l l /
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/:/
/lll/
l/
/://
ll
/ll/
/ll/
-Oms / mol/
-Tano ~
// ~ //
Observations of the remainder of the
villages visited in the Dubyonki Raion
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oblique singular determinative formant /
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T
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is represented by /-Ow/ and /-Oj-
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talized velar as in /
´ / have been
sl|l
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tests to no phonetic change in /l|l
/l l
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-Om/:
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/l
l
l
l
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*-OT /l
/l
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s l|l
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attests to no phonetic change in /l|l
/On/ and even /OndO
as both / / and /
use the formant /
*-Om
-Om
/-Om-On
can be formulated as /-OT
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// ‘money
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/l
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and /l
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/ in /
is represented by /-Ow/ and /-Oj
minimal instances of /j
´ / have been
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References
XX
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be / -Tano/ of the Erzya literary
language
Miscellaneous
In summary
/ and /
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Abbreviations and tags
person plural
person plural
person plural
person singular
person singular
person singular
person singular
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Online Sources
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http://ru/archives http://
erziaru/arhivphp?nnom
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Appendix I.
Enumeration of Isoglosses
´ /
sl|l
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-Tano -Tam/
Mordvin languages in the eld. 149–167.
Uralica Helsingiensia 10. Helsinki 2016.
НИНА АГАФОНОВА
Мордов ский г о суд а р ст в енны й
университет им. Н. П. Огарёва
Ва рьи ров а ни е дет е рми нат ивн ы х
с у фф и кс о в в ди ал ек т а х и
говорах эрзянского языка
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