Language and folklore of ethnic Tuvans in Mongolia in Tuvan electronic databases
Keywords:
database; Electronic Corpus of Texts in Tuvan Language; ‘Pisateli Tuvy’; Altai dialect of Tuvan language; language of Mongolian Tuvans; multimedia corpus; electronic educational resource; electronic library; Tuvan languageAbstract
Dialects of Tuvan language outside Tuva have reached a critical point, with the number of their elderly speakers plummeting and those from the younger generations facing problems due to language policies in the countries they live in. For ethnic Tuvans in Mongolia, this is a topical issue as well. In this article, we attempted to systematize the linguistic heritage of Mongolian Tuvans in order to prepare it for integration into the existing electronic corpora of Tuvan language. As the language spoken by Mongolian Tuvans is a dialect, there is no need for a separate project for it.
A large contribution to studying the language and culture of Mongolian Tuvans has been made by the German scholar E. Taube. The heritage of Mongolian Tuvans is a mix of published and unpublished pieces in various genres performed by a number of prominent narrators. It is also paramount to include into the collection the works of Mongolia’s best-known Tuvan writer Chinagiyn Galsan, Honored Writer of Tuva, laureate of a number of high-profile literary and public awards in Germany. Also of high importance are the works of Puntsag Dariyn, diplomat and author of a Tuvan-Spanish-English dictionary (2013).
A special place in the electronic databases should belong to dialect materials as they appear in daily broadcasts in Tuvan on state TV channel Mongolia 2; in publications by researchers at Tuva Institute for the Humanities (with G. Zolbayar as a participant); Tuvan textbooks compiled by the teachers at Tsengel Tuvan primary school; archives of the ethnolinguistic expeditions made by the department of Tuvan philology and general linguistics at Tuvan State University since the 1990s. Another recommended addition to the dialect corpus is “The Dictionary of Altai Dialect of Tuvan Language” - a collaborative project by scholars at Tuvan State University and their Mongolian Tuvan postgraduate students.
The multimedia corpus might also include audio and video recordings made by scholars from TuvSU during their expeditions. A special focus should be made on the song ‘Men Tyva Men’ (I am Tuvan) written by Tsengel Tuvans Bayan-Sagaan Ookei and later reworked by Tuvan musicians and singers into the national anthem of the Republic of Tuva (2011).
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Puntsag Dariin (2013) Tyva – Ispani – Angli sөstүү. Diccionario Tyvano - Espaῆol – Ingles / Nyvan – Spanish – English Dictionary. Ulaan-Baatar. 428 p.
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Khiis Gansukh, Institute of Education, Ministry of Education and Research, Republic of Mongolia
Candidate of Philology, Research Fellow, Institute of Education, Ministry of Education and Research, Republic of Mongolia.
Postal address: Palace of Teachers’ Development, 10 Peace Avenue, 14191 Ulanbaatar, Republic of Mongolia.
Tel.: +(976) 994-190-41.
E-mail: khaadargan@gmail.com
Mira V. Bavuu-Surun, Tuvan State University
Candidate of Philology, Associate Professor and Director, Research and Education Center of Turkic Studies, Tuvan State University.
Postal address: Room 129, 5 Studencheskii Kvartal, 667000 Kyzyl, Republic of Tuva, Russian Federation.
Tel.: +7 (394-22) 2-19-69.
Email: mira.bavuu_surun@mail.ru
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