Dolgan

Authors : Chris Lasse Däbritz

Pages : 177-199

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Publication Date : 2023-12-31

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :This paper describes the main characteristics of Dolgan illustrating them by a piece of natural speech recorded in 2008. Dolgan is the northernmost Turkic language, spoken by several thousand people on the Taimyr Peninsula and in adjacent areas. This paper shows that Dolgan, though being closely related to Sakha (Yakut), exhibits several unique traits, some being inherited and some being (contact-induced) innovations. The latter include, among others, the formal reanalysis of relational nouns, the frequent predicative use of the habitual, a comparably high share of (S)VO word order patterns, a large stratum of lexical code-copies from Evenki and the reorganisation of the system of kinship terms following the Evenki model.
Keywords : Dolganca, Sakaca, toplumdilbilim, dil belgelenmesi, başka dillerle temas kaynaklı değişmeler, doğal dil