A new Chuvash historical phonetics
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.18349/MagyarNyelv.2019.3.257Keywords:
Chuvash, Ogur, Volga Bulgar, linguistic history, phonetics, phonology, Mari, Proto-Mari, Cheremis, West BalticAbstract
The book under review is a new monograph on the history of the Chuvash language. The book first offers a detailed analysis of the sources of research on the history of the Chuvash language. In most cases and especially for the earlier periods, these sources are linguistic sources like loanwords from and in Chuvash. The earliest written sources are the Volga Bulgar inscriptions of the 13th–14th centuries. The history of the Chuvash sounds are investigated in all positions. The monograph contains many new insights. The author distinguishes three main dialects of the Middle Chuvash or Volga Bulgar period and investigates their mutual influence. A detailed analysis is given of the history of the process of the closing and reducing of the vowels. The impact of the neighbouring languages is given special attention. The author claims that the name Cheremis used to be the name of a group of people speaking a West Baltic idiom, later the name assumed the meaning “foreign people” and changed finally into the foreign name of the Mari. An Appendix dealing with the West Baltic layer of words in Mari and Chuvash close the book. The work contains rich material for a future etymological dictionary of the Chuvash language.
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