Chuvash Historical Phonetics
An areal linguistic study. With an Appendix on the Role of Proto-Mari in the History of Chuvash Vocalism
by Klara Agyagasi
The author presents the first comprehensive historical phonetics of the Chuvash language, relying on data from various language contacts as oral sources: lexical copies from Ogur, Volga Bulgarian into Ancient Hungarian, Proto-Permian, Old Russian, Proto-Mari and Middle Kipchak, as well as copies from Arab, New Persian, Proto-Permian, Old and Middle Russian, Chinese, Middle Mongolian, Proto-Mari, the Low Cheremis substratum and Middle Kipchak into Chuvash.
The Chuvash language is the only descendant of the Ogur Turkic language variety, which separated from the Common Turkic language unity ca. 2000 years ago. The speakers of this Turkic language variety appeared in Eastern Europe in the 5th century. Inhabiting the steppe zone they established political, cultural and language contacts with the neighbouring peoples. In the 9th century some of them moved to the Volga-Kama confluence, the territorial varieties of their language known as Volga Bulgarian became dominant between the 9th and 13th centuries. Due to the Mongol invasion after 1236 only one dialect of Volga Bulgarian was preserved, on the basis of which the Chuvash language has emerged. In the book of Klara Agyagasi, the processes of Chuvash historical phonetics are reconstructed relying on data from various language contacts as oral sources: lexical copies from Ogur, Volga Bulgarian into Ancient Hungarian, Proto-Permian, Old Russian, Proto-Mari and Middle Kipchak, as well as copies from Arab, New Persian, Proto-Permian, Old and Middle Russian, Chinese, Middle Mongolian, Proto-Mari, the Low Cheremis substratum and Middle Kipchak into Chuvash. As a result, the author presents the first comprehensive historical phonetics of the Chuvash language arranged in chronological order, applying the code-copying and areal linguistic framework.
- By (author) Klara Agyagasi
Other Titles in this Series
Tatarische Terminologie im Wandel
Lexikalische Umbruche durch Kultur- und Sprachkontakt vom ausgehenden Zarenreich bis zum postsowjetischen Russland
Volume 91
Kazakh in Post-Soviet Kazakhstan
Proceedings of the International Symposium on Kazakh, November 30 - December 2, 2011, Giessen
Volume 102
Essays on Turkish Linguistics
Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Turkish Linguistics, August 6-8, 2008
Volume 79
Farbbezeichnungen im Jakutischen
Unter besonderer Berucksichtigung der Tierfarbenterminologie
Volume 92
Turks and Iranians. Interactions in Language and History
The Gunnar Jarring Memorial Program at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study
Volume 105
Cries and Whispers in Karamanlidika Books
Proceedings of the First International Conference on Karamanlidika Studies (Nicosia, 11th-13th September 2008)
Volume 83
The Crimean Karaim Bible
Vol. 1: Critical edition of the Pentateuch, Five Scrolls, Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Daniel, Ezra and Nehemiah. Vol. 2: Translation
Volume 119
Similar Books
Cities through Time
Glimpses into Urbanity and Community in Mediaeval to Modern West Asia and Egypt
Volume 1
Global Gulf
Geo-Economic, Geo-Political, and Geo-Technological Transformation in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar
Ismail Hakki Bursevi’s translation of and commentary on Fusus al-Hikam By Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi
Volumes 1-4
Punning in Odd or Elegant Constructions in Jeremiah
The Convergence of Linguistics, Rhetoric, and Textuality in the Hebrew Text of Jeremiah
Qatar’s Societal Security
Towards the Inclusive National Concept of ‘Baladna’ Identity, Migration and External Threats Since 2017
Networking through Biography
Constructing Intellectual Junctions in Antiquity, the Renaissance and the Arabo-Islamic World
Volume 19
Beiträge zur Islamischen Kunst und Archäologie
The Arts and Archaeology of Funerary Cultures in Islam
Volume 10.0
Boğazköy Tablets in the Museum of Anatolian Civilisations (Bo 95–Bo 3993)
Anadolu Medeniyetleri Müzesinde Bulunan Boğazköy Tabletleri (Bo 95–Bo 3993)
Volume 3
Conceptualisation as a Biocognitive Phenomenon and Part of the Faculty of Language
Cross-linguistic Evidence from the Preposition Category
Discerning Religious Truth
A Didactic Exposition of the Logic and Epistemology of the Islamic Sciences
Volume 1
Explorations in Islamic Archaeology
Material Culture, Settlements, and Landscapes from the Mediterranean to Western Asia
Volume 7
