Alasha dialect
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| Alasha | |
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| Pronunciation | [ɑɮʃɑ] |
| Native to | China |
| Region | Alxa League, Inner Mongolia |
Native speakers | >40,000 (2005) |
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | alas1256 Alasha Oirad |
| ELP | Lua error in Module:Endangered_Languages_Project at line 21: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). |
| IETF | xal-u-sd-cnnm29 |
Alasha ([ɑɮʃɑ], in some Mongolian varieties [ɑɮɑ̆ɡʃɑ];[1] Mongolian script: ᠠᠯᠠᠱᠠ, Mongolian Cyrillic: Алшаа Alaša, Chinese: 阿拉善; pinyin: Ālāshàn), or Alaša-Eǰen-e, is a Mongolic variety with features of both Oirat and Mongolian[2][3] that historically used to belong to Oirat but has come under the influence of Mongolian proper. It has more than 40,000 speakers in Alxa League, Inner Mongolia, China and consists of two sub-dialects, Alasha proper and Eǰene.[4]
Classification
[edit | edit source]Alasha was initially classified as an Oirat language, but has lost many of these features in a process known as de-Oiratization.[5]
Phonology
[edit | edit source]Alasha shows characteristic features of Oirat, such as preservation of /k/ in some contexts and imperative suffixes. However, it also has several features more typical of Khalkha or some Inner Mongolian dialects, such /j/ in place of Oirat /z/ and some forms of personal pronouns.[3]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ 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.
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- ^ Sečenbaγatur et al. 2005: 265-266
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Literature
[edit | edit source]- 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 teüberi 1. 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.