Institute of Language, Literature and History, Komi Scientific Center of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Syktyvkar, Russian Federation, [email protected]
ABSTRACT
Introduction: the article presents the results of the study of the vocalism system of the Upper Kama dialect of the Komi-Permyak language: the articulatory characteristics and distribution of vowels are considered; phonetic phenomena in the area of vowels, such as assimilation, intra-dialect correspondence, alternation, contraction, were analyzed; features of accentuation are described. A comparison of the linguistic phenomena of the described idiom with similar phenomena in the Komi-Permyak and Komi-Zyryan dialects are carried out.
Objective: to identify and describe the peculiarities of vocalism of the Upper Kama dialect of the Komi-Permyak language.
Research materials: the empirical basis of the research consisted of language materials from the author’s dialectological expeditions to the area of residence of the Kirov Permyaks.
Results and novelty of the research: the article for the first time considers the peculiarities of vocalism of the Upper Kama dialect of the Komi-Permyak language. It has been established that the vowel system in this idiom is represented by seven phonemes: и, э, ы, ö, у, о, а, which have the same articulatory-acoustic characteristics as in the other Komi dialects. In native words, the vowels и, ы, ö, a can occupy any position: anlaut, inlaut, auslaut; they can be used both in the first and in subsequent syllables of a word; the vowels у, э, о occur predominantly in the first syllable. A significant place in the
idiom under study is occupied by assimilative phenomena, which, in turn, are the source of intra-dialectal correspondences of vowels: o // a // y, ы // a, ö // o, ы // y, ö // ы. It has been revealed that the accentuation system of the Upper Kama dialect of the Komi-Permyak language is characterized by the stress on the first syllable, as well as features of morphologization and vocalization. The analyzed dialect material complements the available information about the features of the Komi-Permyak dialects and can be used in compiling generalizing studies on the Permian languages, creating dialect dictionaries and atlases, studying systemic changes as a result of interlanguage contact.
Key words: Komi-Permyak language, dialect, Upper-Kama dialect, phonetic features, vocalism
Acknowledgments: the publication was prepared within the framework of the planned research topic “The Permian languages in the linguistic and cultural space of the European North and the Pre-Urals” (reg. No. 121042600252-7).
For citation: Sazhina S. A. Upper Kama dialect of the Komi-Permyak language: peculiarities of vocalism // Vestnik ugrovedenia = Bulletin of Ugric Studies. 2024; 14 (3/58): 489–497.