Article

Name: Frisian mark in Siberia

Authors: E. A. Liebert

In the section Грамматика

Abstract: The article deals with the diminutive formant in Plautdietsch (the Mennonites Language, spoken all around the world by the Mennonites, also in West Siberia). This language remains genetically connected with Low German lin-guistic areal, primarily in its grammar. At the same time, according to many linguists, a bright and unique phonological system of Plautdietsch is attributa-ble mainly to Frisian linguistic heritage. There is still an open-ended question, concerning the Frisian’s influence on Plautdietsch. The possibility of this in-fluence is considered by germanists in various ways. One of the evident acknowledgments of Frisian influence on Plautdietsch is its formant of Diminutives, that unrestrictedly models the proper and common nouns in that language. In the 14th century (or maybe earlier), the phenomena of dorsal plosive consonant palatalization was emerging, which involved the change in the place of articulation towards to the palatal region, that could be followed by their as-sibilation to sibilant (fricative) consonants. This process was happening ambitiously in all languages and dialects of the Ingveonic group. Consequently, to these processes, the Germanic diminutive formant -kin / ken transformed into -ke after the final consonant loss, and after the palatalization gave following reflections: -je, -tje. The same diminutive formant -tje, being a result of considered palatalization of Frisian language, is presented in Plautdietsch. This suffix has two variants: therefore, it sounds as -kje in the Mennonite language in Chortitza and as -tje in Mo-lochna dialect. The article presents song folklore and children’s folklore samples, collected by the author from verbal communica-tion with the native speakers.

Keywords: Plautdietsch, Frisian, Mennonites, diminutive noun, suffix, field materials

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