| Baraba | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in | Russia | |
| Region | Siberia | |
| Total speakers | 8,000[1] | |
| Language family | Altaic[2] (controversial) | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1 | tt | |
| ISO 639-2 | tat | |
| ISO 639-3 | tat | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. | ||
Baraba or Baraba Tatar is spoken by at least 8,000 people in Siberia. It is dialect of Tatar.
Baraba Tatar falls into a continuum of Tatar dialects spoken through Siberia.
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Geographic Distribution
Baraba Tatar is spoken in the Novosibirsk, Tyumen and Tomsk Oblasts in Russia. Standard Tatar is used as the literary language.
Differences from Standard Tatar
Baraba Tatar possesses a number of features that distinguish it from Kazan Tatar:
- Change of /ɕ/ to /ts/: /ɕæɕ/ → /tsæts/ "hair"
- Devoicing of initial stops: /bʌʃ/ → /paʃ/ "head"
- Devoicing of final /z/ to /s/: /sez/ → /sis/ "you (plural)"
- Lack of sound changes /e/ ↔ /i/ and /o/ ↔ /u/: /jort/ → /jurt/ "home", /kil-/ → /kel-/ "come"
Sounds
Consonants
| Labial | Dental | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | p b | t d | k ɡ | q | ||
| Affricate | ts | tʃ | ||||
| Fricative | (f) (v) | s (z) | ʃ (ʒ) | x ɣ | h | |
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||
| Lateral Glide | l | |||||
| Trill | r | |||||
| Semivowel | w ɥ | j |
- Sounds in paretheses appear only in loan words.
- The sounds [ts] and [tʃ] appear in free variation. The replacement of /tʃ/ with /ts/ is a feature that distinguishes Baraba from Kazan Tatar.[3]
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i y | ɯ u | |
| Mid | e ø | ë ø̈ ö | o |
| Low | æ | a |
See also
References
- ^ "The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire". http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook/baraba_tatars.shtml. Retrieved 2006-10-21.
- ^ "[1] Ethnologue"
- ^ Дмитриева, Л. В. (1981) (in Russian). Язык Барабинских Татар (Материалы и Исследования). Leningrad: Академия Наук СССР.
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