G. S. Ivanova National Research Ogarev Mordovia State University, Saransk, Russian Federation, galina17-05@yandex.ru
L. P. Vodyasova Mordovian State Pedagogical University, Saransk, Russian Federation, LVodjasova@yandex.ru
N. V. Ivanova Marine Technical Academy named after Admiral D. N. Senyavin, Saint-Petersburg, Russian Federation, nataliva1990@mail.ru
ABSTRACT
Introduction: the article considers the formation of the vocal system of the Moksha subdialects of the Ruzaevsky area: it describes the vocal system of the subdialects, identifies historical changes that occurred in the vocal system under the influence of phonetic processes. This article is a continuation of our research into the Moksha subdialects of the Ruzaevsky District of the Republic of Mordovia.
Objective: to describe the vocal system of the Moksha subdialects of the Ruzayevka area; to identify historical changes in the phonetic system of vowels.
Research materials: dialect material collected by the authors during trips to the Moksha settlements of the Ruzaevsky District in 2000–2023; material from the Dictionary office of the Department of Mordovian languages.
Results and novelty of the research: as the result of the conducted research, we have given a description of the vocal system of the dialects of the Ruzayevsky area of the Moksha language. Synchronic analysis of the dialect material has shown that the vocal system of the dialects of the Ruzayevsky area is heterogeneous. In addition to the dialects with a full vocal system (a, o, u, i, e, ä, ь, ъ) – type 1 (Levzhensky subdialects), there are dialects with simplified vocal systems: Suzgarevsky subdialects – type 2 (the vocal system lacks the phoneme *ä) and Perkhlyajsky subdialects – type 3 (the vocal system lacks the phonemes *ä and *e). The comparative-historical method made it possible to identify historical changes in the phonetic system: 1) the broad vowels of the first syllable, which retained stress, changed less; 2) the historical front vowels underwent greater changes; 3)
the absence of the historical phoneme *ä in the dialects of the type 2 and the phonemes *ä, *e in the dialects of the type 3 is explained by their narrowing in all phonetic positions. The scientific novelty of the work consists in the fact that the vocalism system of the Moksha subdialects of the
Ruzayevksky area in historical coverage has not previously been the subject of special research.
Key words: Finno-Ugric protolanguage, Moksha language, dialect, vocalism, phonetic process
Acknowledgments: the publication was prepared within the framework of the implementation of the RSF grant 25-28-00193 “Digital description of Moksha dialects of the Ruzaevsky district of the Republic of Mordovia”.
For citation: Ivanova G. S., Vodyasova L. P., Ivanova N. V. Formation of the vocalism system of the Moksha subdialects of the Ruzaevsky area // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2025; 15 (2/61): 238–246.