- Baraba language
language
name=Baraba
states=Russia
region=Siberia
speakers=8,000 [cite web |url=http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook/baraba_tatars.shtml |title=The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire |accessdate=2006-10-21]
familycolor=Altaic
fam1=Altaic [" [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_family.asp?subid=90009] Ethnologue"] (controversial)
fam2=Turkic
fam3=Kypchak
fam4=Kypchak-Bolgar
iso1=tt|iso2=tat|iso3=tatBaraba or Baraba Tatar is a
Turkic language spoken by about 8,000 people inRussia nSiberia . It is closely related to Tatar and some linguists consider Baraba to be adialect of Tatar.Baraba Tatar falls into a continuum of Tatar dialects spoken through Siberia. The term Baraba Tatar may be used to refer to all
Siberian Tatar dialects.Classification
Baraba Tatar is a Turkic language belonging to the Kypchak branch. Within the Kypchak branch, Baraba is subgrouped with the closely related
Tatar language and the less-closely relatedBashkir language in the Kypchak-Bolgar family. Some linguists consider Baraba and other Turkic languages to be members of the Altaic macro-family.Geographic Distribution
Baraba Tatar is spoken in the Tyumen and
Tomsk Oblast s inRussia . It is not an official language. Standard Kazan Tatar is used as the literary language.Differences from Standard (Kazan) Tatar
Baraba Tatar possesses a number of features that distinguish it from
Kazan Tatar:*Change of /tIPA|ʃ/ to /ts/: "tIPA|ʃætIPA|ʃ" → "tsæts" "hair"
*Devoicing of initial stops: "baIPA|ʃ" → "paIPA|ʃ" "head"
*Devoicing of final /z/ to /s/: "sez" → "sis" "you (plural)"
*Lack of sound changes /e/ ↔ /i/ and /o/ ↔ /u/: "jort" → "jurt" "home", "kil-" → "kel-" "come"ounds
Consonants
*Sounds in paretheses appear only in loan words.
*The sounds [IPA|ʦ] and [IPA|ʧ] appear in free variation. The replacement of [IPA|ʧ] with [IPA|ʦ] is a feature that distinguishes Baraba from Kazan Tatar. [cite book |last=Дмитриева |first=Л. В. |title=Язык Барабинских Татар (Материалы и Исследования) |year=1981 |publisher=Академия Наук СССР |location=Leningrad |language=Russian]Vowels
ee also
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Tatars
*Tatar language References
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