Notes on some Turkic vowel developments

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<jats:p>This contribution deals with four types of vowel developments found in Turkic languages. Two of these, i-umlaut and u-umlaut, areregressive vowel assimilations, the other two – vowel raising and vowel lowering – originate in a reduction in terms of quantity. In order to get a rough idea of the distribution of the phenomena under discussion, modern Standard Uyghur, a language in which these developments are especially common, is taken as a starting point. Lexemes in which one or more of these changes occur are compared with the cognates in other modern and historical Turkic languages. It turns out that while most of the vowel developments considered here have gained a certain dissemination accross the Turkic world in individual lexical items, the instability in the vowel system is especially striking in the Uyghur area.</jats:p>
Autoren
  • Julian Rentzsch
DOI
10.5617/ao.7371
eISSN
1600-0439
ISSN
0001-6438
Zeitschrift
Acta Orientalia
Online publication date
1970
Paginierung
5 - 33
Status
Published online
Herausgeber
University of Oslo Library
Herausgeber URL
http://dx.doi.org/10.5617/ao.7371
Datum der Datenerfassung
2020
Titel
Notes on Some Turkic Vowel Developments
Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
69

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Abstract
This contribution deals with four types of vowel developments found in Turkic languages. Two of these, i-umlaut and u-umlaut, are regressive vowel assimilations, the other two – vowel raising and vowel lowering – originate in a reduction in terms of quantity. In order to get a rough idea of the distribution of the phenomena under discussion, modern Standard Uyghur, a language in which these developments are especially common, is taken as a starting point. Lexemes in which one or more of these changes occur are compared with the cognates in other modern and historical Turkic languages. It turns out that while most of the vowel developments considered here have gained a certain dissemination accross the Turkic world in individual lexical items, the instability in the vowel system is especially striking in the Uyghur area.
Autoren
  • Julian Rentzsch
DOI
10.5617/ao.7371
ISSN
1600-0439
Zeitschrift
Acta Orientalia
Schlüsselwörter
  • Turkic languages
  • Phonology
  • Lexis
  • Etymology
  • Sound harmony
  • Umlaut
  • Vowel raising
  • Vowel lowering
Country
Norway
Paginierung
5 - 33, 29
Datum der Veröffentlichung
2008
Datum der Datenerfassung
2024
Titel
Notes on some Turkic vowel developments
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  • Article
Ausgabe der Zeitschrift
69

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