How Can We Help?
You are here:
< Back

Baraba or Baraba Tatar, is spoken by at least 8,000 Baraba Tatars in Siberia. It is a dialect of Siberian Tatar language.[3] While middle aged individuals and the young generation speak Russian and Volga-Ural Tatar languages, the Baraba dialect is used by the older generation.[4]

History

The Arabic script has been historically used to write the language. The Latin script was adopted in 1928 but was replaced with the Cyrillic script in 1938.[citation needed] While standard Volga Tatar is widely taught in local schools, Baraba Tatar is not.[5]

Geographic distribution

Baraba Tatar is spoken mainly in the Novosibirsk Oblast, and to a lesser degree, in Omsk Oblast, in Russia. Standard Volga–Ural Tatar is taught at local Tatar schools.

Sounds

Consonants

Consonants of Baraba
Labial Dental Palatal Velar Uvular Glottal
Plosive Voiceless p t k q
Voiced b d ɡ
Affricate ts
Fricative Voiceless (f) s ʃ x h
Voiced (v) (z) (ʒ) ɣ
Nasal m n ŋ
Lateral l
Trill r
Semivowel Plain j
Labial ɥ w
  • Sounds in parentheses appear only in loan words.
  • The sounds [ts] and [tʃ] appear in free variation. The replacement of /tʃ/ with /ts/ is a feature that distinguishes Baraba from Volga–Ural Tatar.[6]

Vowels

Vowels of Baraba
Front Central Back
-round +round -round +comp. +round -round +round
High i y ɯ u
Mid e ø ë ø̈ ö o
Low æ ɑ

See also

References

  1. ^ "The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire". Archived from the original on 15 October 2006. Retrieved 21 October 2006.
  2. ^ "Сибирскотатарский язык | Малые языки России". minlang.iling-ran.ru. Retrieved 3 October 2023.
  3. ^ Тумашева, Д. Г. (1977). Dialekty sibirskih tatar. Opyt sravnitelʹnogo issledovanija Диалекты сибирских татар. Опыт сравнительного исследования [Dialects of Siberian Tatars. Comparative research experience] (in Russian). Казань.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  4. ^ Güllüdağ, Nesrin (July 2013). "Baraba Tatarlarının dili üzerine bir inceleme" [A Study on the Language of the Baraba Tatars] (PDF). AVRASYA Uluslararası Arastırmalar Dergisi (in Turkish). 2 (3): 88–128.
  5. ^ "Baraba Tatars". The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire. Archived from the original on 10 May 2000. Retrieved 7 June 2021.
  6. ^ Дмитриева, Л. В. (1981). Язык Барабинских Татар (Материалы и Исследования) (in Russian). Leningrad: Академия Наук СССР.

External links

Categories
Table of Contents