CASE FORMS IN THE VERIETIES OF THE TELENGIT DIALECT OF THE ALTAI LANGUAGE

Abstract

The paper is devoted to case forms in the speech varieties of the Telengit dialect which is one of the southern dialects of the Altai language. Allomorphs of cases in these speech varieties have the differential signs are based on various phonetic options, which allows to distinguish them from other speech varieties of the Altai language. Affixes of cases in the speech varieties of the Telengit dialect of Kosh-Agach and Ulagan areas in comparison to the Altai literary language and the speech variety of the Altai-Kizhi dialect of the Onguday area show the specific features, on the one hand, uniting these dialects, opposing them to the literary language, on the other hand, showing territorial features of speech varieties of Kosh-Agach and Ulagan areas. The paper aims at identifying the morphonological variation of caseforms in speech varieties of the Telengit dialect of the Altai language and comparison of the received material to the Altai literary language which is the standard of the written Altai language, and with the speech variety of the Onguday area of the Altai-Kizhi dialect which despite being the basis for the literary language keeps dialect features. Research of case forms of speech varieties of the Telengit dialect in comparison to the Altai literary language shows such specific features uniting these dialects among themselves as existence of options with labialized vowels in the Genitive and the Accusative cases and the existence of affixes with longs in the Dative-Lative case. Thus, for the speech variety of Ulagan area the cases which are not found in the speech varieties of Kosh-Agach area are characteristic, which opposes these speech varieties to each other. So, the characteristic features of the speech varieties of the Ulagan area are the affixes with initial -d after bases on vowels in the Genitive and the Accusative cases, existence of short forms after bases on consonant in affixes of the Aenitive and the Ablative cases, and the absence of lip harmony for affixes with wide vowels, which allows to allocate only two options of an affix in the Dative-Lative, Locative, Aenitive and Ablative cases in this speech variety.