Alasha dialect
Alasha([ɑɮʃɑ],in some Mongolian varieties[ɑɮɑ̆ɡʃɑ];[1]Mongolian script:ᠠᠯᠠᠱᠠ,Mongolian Cyrillic:АлшааAlaša,Chinese:A kéo thiện;pinyin:Ālāshàn), orAlaša-Eǰen-e,is aMongolicvariety with features of bothOiratandMongolian[2]that historically used to belong to Oirat but has come under the influence of Mongolian proper. It has more than 40,000 speakers inAlxa League,Inner Mongolia,China and consists of two sub-dialects,Alasha properandEǰene.[3]
Phonology
[edit]/pɑɢ/'small' vs./pɑɡ/'group', therefore/ɢ/./øt͡səɡtər/,thusaffricatedepalatalization took place for/t͡ʃʰ/and/t͡ʃ/in any position except before *i.[4]/ɪr/'to thrust open' vs./ir/'to come', thus/ɪ/.[5]The maximalsyllableis CVCC, e.g./tʰers.let/converbal form of 'to counteract'.[6]
References
[edit]- ^Here and in the following, the phoneme analysis proposed in Svantesson et al. 2005 is adapted for Alasha
- ^Sečenbaγatur et al. 2005: 190-191 classify it as Mongolian according to morphological criteria, Svantesson et al. 2005: 148 classifies it as Oirat because of its vowel system.
- ^Sečenbaγatur et al. 2005: 265-266
- ^Sečenbaγatur et al. 2005: 272-273, but we follow Söngrüb 1988 (non vidi) who assumes an opposition of unaspirated devoiced and aspirated voiceless phonemes. As we reconstruct *t for Written Mongolian⟨d⟩etc. in accordance with Svantesson et al. 2005, Alasha/d̥/is simply interpreted as/t/from the outset.
- ^Sečenbaγatur et al. 2005: 268
- ^Sečenbaγatur et al. 2005: 276
Literature
[edit]- Sečenbaγatur, Qasgerel, Tuyaγ-a, B. ǰirannige, U Ying ǰe(2005):Mongγul kelen-ü nutuγ-un ayalγun-u sinǰilel-ün uduridqal.Kökeqota: Öbür mongγul-un arad-un keblel-ün qoriy-a.
- Söngrüb (1988):Alaša aman ayalγun-u abiyalaburi bolun barimǰiy-a abiyal-un abiyalaburi-yin qaričaγulul.In:Erdem sinǰilegen-ü ögülel-ün teüberi1.Beijing,ündüsüten-ü keblel-ün qoriy-a:160-197.
- Svantesson, Jan-Olof, Anna Tsendina, Anastasia Karlsson, Vivan Franzén (2005):The Phonology of Mongolian.New York: Oxford University Press.