A Historical Dictionary of Yukaghir

"Tundra and Kolyma Yukaghir are highly endangered languages spoken in the extreme North-East of Siberia, usually considered unrelated to other language families. This dictionary is the first relatively complete source of information on the Yukaghir lexicon. It presents in comparative format all known lexemes from all known varieties of Yukaghir, both modern and extinct. Based on this material it provides a reconstruction of the common ancestor of the different varieties of Yukaghir, which has not previously been attempted. The dictionary also suggests etymologies for many Yukaghir words and includes possible cognates from other languages, mainly Uralic and Altaic."--BOOK JACKET.

Acknowledgements

v

Preface

vii

Abbreviations

xi

Introduction

1

(1)

1. Organization of the dictionary

1

(9)

1.1. The structure of an entry

1

(1)

1.2. Sources

2

(1)

1.3. Presentation of the data and translations

3

(2)

1.4. Transcription and transliteration

5

(2)

1.5. Grammatical information

7

(1)

1.6. Reconstructions, etymologies, and comments

8

(2)

2. Sources of the Yukaghir material

10

(19)

2.1. Old Yukaghir

10

(15)

2.1.1. Witsen

10

(2)

2.1.2. Mueller/Lindenau

12

(3)

2.1.3. Klitschka

15

(2)

2.1.4. Boensing

17

(1)

2.1.5. Billings/Merk

18

(6)

2.1.6. Matjuškin (Cuvan and Omok)

24

(1)

2.2. End of the 19th century and 20th century

25

(4)

2.2.1. Kurilov

25

(1)

2.2.2. Krejnovic

25

(1)

2.2.3. Spiridonov

25

(1)

2.2.4. Jochelson

26

(1)

2.2.5. Schiefner

27

(2)

3. Basics of Kolyma Yukaghir phonology

29

(28)

3.1. Phonemic inventory

29

(5)

3.1.1. Vocalism

29

(2)

3.1.2. Consonantism

31

(2)

3.1.3. Some non-phonemic variations

33

(1)

3.2. Positional restrictions on consonants

34

(1)

3.3. Vowel harmony

35

(6)

3.3.1. Harmony in the first foot

36

(1)

3.3.2. Harmony of short vowels after the first foot

37

(2)

3.3.3. Harmony of long vowels

39

(1)

3.3.4. Synharmonism

40

(1)

3.4. Alternations of vowels

41

(6)

3.4.1 Quantitative alternations

41

(2)

3.4.2. Deletion

43

(2)

3.4.3. Assimilation of mid vowels

45

(1)

3.4.4. Reduction of the stem-final vowel

46

(1)

3.5. Alternations of consonants

47

(5)

3.5.1. "Sonorant~obstruent" alternation

47

(1)

3.5.2. Assimilation of voiced consonants

48

(2)

3.5.3. Voicing and palatal assimilation

50

(1)

3.5.4. Assimilation of sibilants and j

51

(1)

3.6. Epenthesis

52

(5)

3.6.1. Consonantal epenthesis

53

(1)

3.6.2. Vocalic epenthesis in word edge clusters

53

(1)

3.6.3. Word-medial vocalic epenthesis

54

(3)

4. A reconstruction of Proto-Yukaghir phonology

57

(22)

4.1. Vocalism

57

(8)

4.1.1. Inventory and vowel harmony

57

(1)

4.1.2. Non-high vowels

57

(4)

4.1.3. High vowels

61

(3)

4.1.4. Long vowels

64

(1)

4.2. Consonantism

65

(9)

4.2.1. Inventory

65

(1)

4.2.2. Sibilants and affricates

66

(2)

4.2.3. Fricatives

68

(1)

4.2.4. Sonorants and glides

69

(2)

4.2.5. Consonantal clusters

71

(3)

4.3. The structure of the stems

74

(5)

4.3.1. Monosyllabic stems

74

(1)

4.3.2. Bisyllabic stems

75

(2)

4.3.3. Trisyllabic stems

77

(2)

5. List of affixes

79

(5)

Notes

84

(3)

References

87

(8)

Dictionary

95

(370)

Index of meanings

465

(34)

Language index

499

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