Koryak texts / by Waldemar Bogoras.

  • Vladimir Bogoraz
Date:
1917
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Credit: Koryak texts / by Waldemar Bogoras. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    shina Bay, with the help of Nicholas Vilkhin, Mr. Jochel- son’s interpreter. The correct transcription of Koryak phonetics offered considerable difficulty, since Nicholas Vilkhin, a half-Russianized Koryak raised in Gishiginsk, belongs by birth to the village of Paren (Koryak, PoPtin). Now, the dialects of Paren and Kamenskoye, though very much alike, present several points of difference. Some of these are, that e of Paren is replaced by a in Kamenskoye; tk, by tc (cc); y, by 6*. The people of Kamenskoye are well acquainted with the Paren pronunciation, because the intercourse between the villages is considerable. There¬ fore many of them, when talking with the interpreter, would assume his style of pronunciation. I have tried to avoid confounding the two systems of pronunciation, but I am not sure that I have succeeded in doing so in all cases. Besides this, the rules of pronunciation, which are strict and consistent in the Chukchee language, are quite lax in all the Koryak dialects. The harmon}/ of vowels, which exists in Chukchee, is unstable in Koryak, and often inconsistent. Chukchee has two groups of long vowels, — i e (a) u e a o (e) The vowels of the one group cannot be combined with those of the other, either in single words or in compounds such as are in use in this group of languages. The other vowels of the Chukchee are short, obscure, and neutral. Therefore they may form combinations with either group of long vowels. In compounds, the vowels of the first group are replaced by the corresponding vowels of the second group whenever the word contains a single vowel of the second group in any position whatsoever. There are also some stems containing only neutral vowels, which
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