Russian Words in a Middle Chulym Translation of the Gospel of Mark

Since 2017, the Tomsk Eparchy of the Russian Orthodox Church has been implementing a project that involves translating the Gospels of the New Testament into the Middle Chulym Turkic language, one of the critically endangered Turkic languages that remains insufficiently studied and described. Within the framework of this project, a translation of the Gospel of Mark into the Middle Chulym was published in 2019 (cf. Gabov and Lemskaja). In addition to its obvious confessional value, this text is important for Turkology: it represents a new source of Chulym lexical material and opens avenues for further ana­lyses. It also provides an excellent opportunity to examine strategies and procedures employed in the translation process, as well as the solutions proposed by the translator for conveying concepts foreign to the Chulyms. The article focuses specifically on the Russian words incorporated into the Chulym text in the translation process

Confessional · Foreign language · Gospel · Narrative · New Testament · Historical and Linguistic Studies · Linguistics and Cultural Studies · Linguistics and language evolution