SEL’KUP-KHAMNIGAN-BURYAT LEXICAL CORRESPONDENCES

Zhamsaranova Raisa Gandybalovna

DOI: 10.23951/2307-6119-2021-1-21-33

Information About Author:

Zhamsaranova Raisa Gandybalovna, doctor of science (philology), associate professor, professor of the department of the Chinese language. Transbaikal State University. 30 Aleksandrovo-Zavodskaya st., Chita, Russia, 672039. E-mail: rebeca_zab@mail.ru

The article describes the presence of Samoyed-Mongolian language contacts on the example of the common vocabulary of the Sel’kup, Khamnigan dialect of the Buryat language and the literary Buryat language. Both lexical and semantic correspondences of Sel’kup, Khamnigan and Buryat words were found. This suggests the problem of studying the nature of these correspondences, both in terms of the ethno-linguistic substrate and in terms of language borrowings as a result of long-term contacts. The lexica taken from the Khamnigan-Russian dictionary, compiled and being based on field records of well-known Buryat educator Tsyben Zhamtsarano’s collection of folklore texts “Sacred tales of the Ononsky khamnigans” in1911. We reveal the problem through phonological correlations. The so-called “K-speech” of Khamnigans suggests that this dialect represents the “intermediate” language, or the “space-time bor-der” in the historical development of the Buryat language. For example, a comparison of khamnigan kubke (n), kobko(n) ‘forest moss’ and Buryat khubhe(n) ‘moss’ reveals an alternation of k- // x-, typical for Sel’kup kalderko ~ kaltyryko ‘walk; wander; run’ and Buryat haltirkha ‘slip; slide; sledge’. The results of the Samoyedic onomastic substrate of Eastern Transbaikalia allow us to confirm thesis of the tribal names Samoyed and Khamnigan as one and the same onoma. We suppose the so-called “khamnigan” past of the Buryats, i. e. Samoyed, is an intermediate link, which simultaneously explains the ethnogenetic origin of the Mongolian-speaking Buryats. A detailed study of the correspondence of the common vocabulary of two unrelated languages (which does not exclude the hypothesis of the Ural-Altaic language union) allows, first, to keep in mind the presence of the Turkic-language basis as a common one, and secondly, confirms the presence of typologically determined linguistic phenomena of both Sel’kup and Buryat languages in the field of phonology and grammar.

Keywords: Selkup language, khamnigan dialect, Buryat language, lexical and semantic correspondences, “intermediate” language, typology of verb forms, phonological similarities

References:

Buryaad-orod slovar' = Buryatsko-russkij slovar' [Buryat-Russian dictionary / comp. K. M. Cheremisov] / sost. K. M. Cheremisov. M.: Sov. encikl., 1973. 804 s.

Voevodina N. M. O deeprichastiyah sel'kupskogo yazyka [Voevodina N. M. About adverbial participles of the Selkup language] // Yazyki i toponimiya. Tomsk: Tomskij gosudarstvennyj pedagogicheskij institut, 1977. S. 52–58.

Gruntov I. A. Hamniganskij yazyk [Gruntov I. A. Khamnigan language] // Yazyki Rossijskoj Federacii i sosednih gosudarstv. Enciklopediya v 3 tomah. Tom 3 (S–Ya) // Vinogradov V. A. (red.), Nauka, 2005, 606 s. https://altaica.ru/LIBRARY/khamniganen.pdf. (Data obrashcheniya 1.11.2020).

Damdinov D.-N. G. Yazykovaya prinadlezhnost' hamnigan [Damdinov D.-N. G. Linguistic belonging of Khamnigan] // Zabajkal'e. 2002. № 4. S. 44–45.

Damdinov D. G. Hamnigansko-russkij slovar' [Damdinov D. G. Khamnigansko-Russian dictionary] / D. G. Damdinov, E. V. Sundueva. Irkutsk: Izd-vo “Ottisk”, 2015. 364 s.

Darbeeva A. A. Istoriko-sopostavitel'nye issledovaniya po grammatike mongol'skih yazykov. Fonetika. [Darbeeva A. A. Historical and comparative studies on the grammar of the Mongolian languages. Phonetics] / Darbeeva A. A. M.: Nauka, 1996. 171 s.

Zhamtsarano Ts. Uligery ononskykh khamnigan [Zhamtsarano Ts. Sacred tales of Onon khamnigan’s] / Zhamtsarano Ts. Novosibirsk: Nauka, 1982. 274 s.

Zhamsaranova R. G. Etnoyazykovaya prinadlezhnost' genonima “zabajkal'skij hamnigan” [Zhamsaranova R. G. Ethnolinguistic affiliation of genonim “Zabaykalsky khamnigan”] // Vestnik Chitinskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta: Vestnik CHitGU № 2 (53). Chita: ChitGU, 2009. S. 155–161.

Zhamsaranova R. G. Yavleniya konvergencii i transferencii v leksike buryatskogo i sel'kupskogo yazykov [Zhamsaranova R. G. Phenomena of convergence and transference in the vocabulary of the Buryat and Selkup lan-guages] // Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo pedagogicheskogo universiteta: Vestnik TGPU № 3. Vyp. 3 (105), 2011. S. 140–147.

Zhamsaranova R. G. Ekzonimno-etnonimnye nazvaniya samoed i hamnigan [Zhamsaranova R. G. Onyms khamnigan and samoyed as alloethnonym and ethnonym] // Tomskij zhurnal lingvisticheskih i antropologicheskih issledovanij. Vyp. № 3 (21). Tomsk, 2018. S. 87–96.

Rassadin V. I. Ocherki po istoricheskoj fonetike buryatskogo yazyka [Rassadin V. I. Essays on historical phonetics of the Buryat language] / V. I. Rassadin. M.: Nauka, 1982. 199 s.

Rassadin V. I. Ocherki po morfologii i slovoobrazovaniyu mongol'skih yazykov [Rassadin V. I. Essays on morphology and word formation of Mongolian languages] / V. I. Rassadin. Elista, 2008. 234 s.

Rassadin V. I. Tofalarskij yazyk i ego mesto v sisteme tyurkskih yazykov [Tekst] [Rassadin V. I. Tofalar language and it’s place in the system of Turkic languages] / V. I. Rassadin. Elista: Izd-vo Kalm. Un-ta, 2014. 218 s. Bibliogr. : S. 201–212.

Sel’kupsko-russkij dialektnyj slovar’ [Selkup-Russian dialect dictionary / under the editorship of V. V. Bykonya] / pod red. V. V. Bykonya. Tomsk: Izd-vo TGPU, 2005. 348 s.

Urai-Kyohal'mi K. Eshche raz k voprosu o proiskhozhdenii hamnigan [Urai-Kyohal’mi K. Once again to the question of the origin of khamnigan] // Kratkie soobshcheniya Instituta narodov Azii. Mongolovedenie i tyurkologiya. M., 1966. T. 83 S. 156–164.

( 845.94 kB ) ( 701.43 kB )

Issue: 1, 2021

Series of issue: Issue 1

Rubric: LINGUISTICS

Pages: 21 — 33

Downloads: 715