The vocabulary of protecting children’s lives in Tuvan language
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https://doi.org/10.25178/nit.2020.1.8Keywords:
Tuvan language; Tuvans; culture of childhood; Tuvan culture; vocabulary; Shamanism; protection of children’s lives; Tuva; Tuvans of Mongolia; Tuvans of ChinaAbstract
In Tuvan vocabulary of belief an important place belongs to the names of the rites and traditions linked to protecting children’s lives. This vocabulary group has never been studied before. For the sources of our analysis, we used ethnographic studies of Tuvan culture, dictionaries of Tuvan language, literary texts, and fieldwork materials collected by the authors in their 2014-2017 expeditions to Mongolia and China.
By its origin, the vocabulary used in the rites of protecting children’s lives is almost always Tuvan with few exceptions. Some dialectal words are also in use. With the demise of the rite among Russian Tuvans, the phrase “urug syrtyyn shygzhaar” (the burial of the placenta) has been classified as obsolete. At the same time, a large part of this lexic group has returned to active use in contemporary Tuvan, although it is still marked as obsolete in dictionaries. This clearly reflects the socio-political transformations in the life of Tuvan people which happened throughout the past century. We can witness a living process of changing the structure of the meaning of a number of words.
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Oorzhak S. S. and Bavuu-Surun M. V. The vocabulary of protecting children’s lives in Tuvan language. The New Research of Tuva. 2020, № 1. URL: https://nit.tuva.asia/nit/article/view/908 (access date: ...). DOI: 10.25178/nit.2020.1.8
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Snezhana S. Oorzhak, Tuvan State University
Post-graduate student, Department of Tuvan Philology and General Linguistics, Faculty of Philology; Research Fellow, Research and Educational Center for Turkic Studies, Tuvan State University.
Postal address: 36 Lenin St., 667000 Kyzyl, Russian Federation.
Tel.: +7 (394-22) 2-19-69.
Email: snеzhana.ddd@mail.ru
Mira V. Bavuu-Surun, Tuvan State University
Doctor of Philology, Associate Professor, Leading Research Fellow, Research and Educational Center for Turkic Studies, Tuvan State University.
Postal address: 36 Lenin St., 667000 Kyzyl, Russian Federation.
Tel.: +7 (394-22) 2-19-69.
Email: mira.bavuu_surun@mail.ru
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