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Name: Secondary vowel longitude in the sub-dialects of Telengit dialect of the Altai language

Authors: A. K. Darydzhy

Institute of Philology SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

In the section Linguistics

Abstract: Telengit dialect is one of the southern dialects of the Altai language, with the native speakers living in the South-Eastern part of the Altai Mountains, mostly in the Kosh-Agach and Ulagan districts of the Altai Republic. There are two sub-dialects in the Telengit dialect: Kosh-Agach and Ulagan, named after the administrative districts. The research materials are the linguistic data collected by the author in the areas of compact residence of Telengits. The paper aims at describing secondary vowel longitude in the sub-dialects of the Telengit dialect of the Altai language in a comparative aspect. Research objectives were identifying the secondary long vowels, describing the phonetic processes that produce this type of longitude, and comparing this phonetic phenomenon with similar processes in the Northern dialects of the Altai lan- guage and other Turkic languages of southern Siberia. Long vowels in the Telengit sub- dialects have a secondary origin, i.e., they are the result of phonetic development. The main ways of longitude formation in the Telengit sub-dialects are compensation of the fallen final consonant of the word form, the contraction of two vowels in one syllable due to the loss of the intervocalic consonant, and the fusion of vowels at the junction of morphemes. The secondary longitude formed due to the dropped auslaut consonant replacement is characteristic of the Altai southern dialects, including the Telengit sub-dialects. The longitude formed by the intervocalic consonant loss and the morpheme junction is characteristic of the entire South Siberian area of the Turkic languages.

Keywords: Altai language, Telengit dialect, Kosh-agach sub-dialect, Ulagan sub-dialect, secondary vow- el longitude

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