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Modern Udmurt language: social and cultural aspects Svetlana Edygarova, University of Tartu

Modern Udmurt language: social and cultural aspects Svetlana Edygarova, University of Tartu. Uralic language family. Finno-Ugric languages Samoyedic languages Nenets, Enets, Nganasan, Selkup, Finnic Ugric Hungarian, Khanty, Mansi Baltic-Finnic Volga-Finnic Permic

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Modern Udmurt language: social and cultural aspects Svetlana Edygarova, University of Tartu

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  1. Modern Udmurt language: social and cultural aspectsSvetlana Edygarova, University of Tartu

  2. Uralic language family Finno-Ugric languagesSamoyedic languages Nenets, Enets, Nganasan, Selkup, FinnicUgric Hungarian, Khanty, Mansi Baltic-Finnic Volga-Finnic Permic Finnish, Estonian, Mordvin (Erzya, Moksha, Komi, Komi Permyak, Livonian,Veps, Shoksha), Mari (Hill Mari, Udmurt Votic, Karelian, Meadow Mari) Ingrian, Sami Kamas

  3. UDMURTS Name variants: “ar”, “arsk people”, “votyak” Ethnic name: “udmurt”, “udmort”, “ukmort” • Location: Udmurtia, Bashkortostan, Tatarstan, Mari El, Permand Kirov oblast

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  5. The map of the Russian Federation

  6. Population of Udmurt Republic 1,64 million in general • Udmurts 29.33 % • Russians 60.12 % • Tatars4.3 % • Others According to the last census of the population (2002) Udmurts are 637.000, 72 % speaks mother tongue In 1989 the figure was 715 000 Udmurt language is endangered language according to UNESCO red book on endangered languages

  7. Udmurt is co-official with Russian language in Udmurt Republic

  8. Studies: -Udmurt language as a mother tongue, -Udmurt literature, -History of Finno-Ugric languages, -Foreign languages (Finnish, Hungarian, English, German) -Summer school of Udmurt language for foreigners

  9. Periodicals • Udmurt dunne www.udmdunne.ru • Invozho http://www.invozho.ru/ • Kenesh • Vorskem kyl • Dzechbur! • Kizili

  10. Literature and arts • Etnofuturism • Motives of pagan culture • Nature and civilization • Contrastive expression • Mythology

  11. Religion - In ancient times Udmurts worshiped the powers of nature and pagan gods. Some of the religious structures and sites remain up to the present day in some Udmurt villages. Ancient priests used to pray and worship there. Some of the folk holidays take place there now (Gerber). - The religion of the Udmurts has strong animistic roots. They worship ancestors as well as the gods of the earth, forest, sky, water, house, sauna etc.

  12. Southern Udmurts (19th century)

  13. Modern Southern Udmurts (2008)

  14. Northern Udmurts from Kirovsky region (20th century)

  15. Northern Udmurts (2008)

  16. Udmurt alphabet А Й Х Б К Ц В Л Ч Г Мӵ Д Н Ш Е О Щ Ё Ö Ъ Ж П Ы ӝ Р Ь З С Э ӟ Т Ю И У Я ӥФ

  17. Some words in Udmurt language Udm.Transcr. Fin. Eng. тыл [tyl]tuli fire кык [kyk] kaksi two кыл [kyl] kieli tongue, language пу [pu]puu tree вир [vir] veri blood лымы[lymy] lumi snow синм- [s“inm] му [mu] муск- [musk] вöй [vöj]

  18. Grammatical examples Udm.(Ton) pon-i-d kõkpugur-e Est.(Sina) pan-i-d kaks puu-d ahj-u Eng.(You) put two (fire)wood oven-to ‘You put two pieces of firewood to the oven’

  19. Declination Estonian Udmurt 1. Nominative metss’ik 3. Genitivemetsa s’ik-len 4. Partitive/Accusative metsas’ik/s’ik-ez 5. Ablative metsa-lts’ik-les’ 6. Allative/Dative metsa-les’ik-ly 7. Adessive metsa-ls’ik-len 8. Comitative/instrumental metsa-gas’ik-en 9. Abessive metsa-tas’ik-tek 10. Inessive metsa-ss’ik-yn 11. Illative metsa-sses’ik-e 12. Elative metsa-sts’ik-ys’(t) 13. Terminative metsa-nis’ik-oz’ 14. Translative metsa-ks - 15. Essive metsa-na - 16. Egressive - s’ik-ys’en 17. Prolative - s’ik-eti 18. Approximative s’ik-lan’

  20. Uralic morphosyntax in Udmurt language: comparative survey of possessive constructions in Udmurt and Uralic languages

  21. Possessee marking Udm. korka-my Fin. talo-mme Hun. ház-unk house-Px.1PL ‘our house’ • majority of Uralic languages (except Estonian, Livonian)

  22. Morphologically distinguishes • plural objects (in singular only) korka-os-yd house-PL-PX.2SG ‘your houses’ • inalienable objects (in singular only) jyr-yd vs. korka-jed head-PX.2SG ‘your head’

  23. No marking: Juxtaposition korka ös ‘house door’ House-NOM door-NOM • In Komi, Mari, Mordvin, Hungarian, Nenets

  24. Duble marking 1.korka-len ös-ez house-GEN door-Px.3SG ‘the door of the house’ • Mari, Hungarian, Mordvin

  25. 2. korka-les’ ös-s-e chigt-i-d house-ABL door-PX.3SG-ACC break-1PRET-2SG ‘you broke the door of the house’ Ul’cha-ys’ piosmurt-ez adzdz-i street-EL man-ACC see-1PRET-1SG ‘I saw a man in the street’ • Komi

  26. Possessor marking Udm. Myn-am mylkyd kapchi I-GEN mood easy ‘I am in good mood’ Fin. poja-n kirja boy-GEN book ‘boy’s book’ • Komi, Mari, Mordvin, Hungarian, Finnic, Nenets

  27. Possessive adjectives Udm. chagyr s’inm-o nyl blue eye-with girl ‘a girl with blue eyes’ Fin. Tuma-tukka-inen mies ‘man with dark hair’ • Komi, Estonian, Finnish

  28. svetie@yandex.ru

  29. Тау кылзэмды понна!

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