Opacity in Crimean Tatar

The Interaction of Vowel Harmony and Syncope

Bibliographic Data

ID19403011
AuthorsDarya Kavitskaya (0000-0001-6383-4959, University of California, Berkeley, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume38
Pages223
Publication date2012-09-25
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueProceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0363-2946 • E-ISSN: 2377-1666
PublisherLinguistic Society of America (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.3765/bls.v38i0.3331
OpenAlexW824166616
LanguageEN
References cited9

The sociolinguistic history of CT is complex and tragic, and the dialectological research is rather difficult. In 1944, all Crimean Tatars were deported from Crimea by the Soviet government, mainly to Uzbekistan, but also to other places in the former Soviet Union, including Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and several locations in Russia (Fisher 1978). During the exile, the speakers of CT did not generally live in communities corresponding to their dialects and were surrounded by other Turkic languages, e.g., Uzbek, as well as non-Turkic languages, e.g., Russian. Crimean Tatars were only allowed to return to Crimea at the beginning of the 90s. Former inhabitants of certain areas of Crimea attempted to resettle in their native villages, but they encountered great difficulties in doing so and were forced to settle far from their original homes. All these factors contributed to the dialect mixture. The dialectological distinctions are clear only in the speech of those consultants who were born and preferably reached their teens before the time of the deportation. The data collected from these older speakers of CT form the basis for the investigation presented in this paper

Ancient history · Art · Geography · Linguistics · Political science · Tatar · Uzbek · Vowel · Vowel harmony · History · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Linguistics and language evolution · Philosophy · Phonetics and Phonology Research

Tools

Open DOIOpen Access