Sex-and-age conditional names of reindeers in dialects of the Tuvan language

Authors

  • Elena M. Kuular Tuvan State University
  • Nadezhda D. Suvandii Tuvan State University

Keywords:

reindeer breeding; reindeer vocabulary; sex-and-age conditional names; comparative analysis; reindeer farm; dialect

Abstract

The article is devoted to the comparative analysis of the sex-and-age conditional names of reindeers in Todzha and Tere-Khol dialects of the Tuvan language, in the language of ethnic Tzaatan Tuvans of Khövsgöl aimag of Mongolia and Tofalars of the Nizhneudinsk district of Irkutsk region. For the first time the peculiarities of reindeer names for sex-and-age conditional features from the speech of Tzaatans in Tzagaan-Nuur were put into the science.

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Published

14.12.2011

How to Cite

Kuular, E. M. and Suvandii, N. D. (2011) “Sex-and-age conditional names of reindeers in dialects of the Tuvan language”, The New Research of Tuva, 4. Available at: https://nit.tuva.asia/nit/article/view/386 (Accessed: 15.05.2024).

Issue

Section

Tuva yesterday, today, tomorrow

Author Biographies

Elena M. Kuular, Tuvan State University

Candidate of Philology, Docent of the Departmentof the Tuvan and General linguistics

Nadezhda D. Suvandii, Tuvan State University

Candidate of Philology, Head of the Departmentof the Tuvan and General linguistics

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