THE PHONETIC INVESTIGATIONS OF THE THREE SAMOYEDIC LANGUAGES (THE ENETS, THE NGANASAN, THE SELKUP)
For a long time modern linguistics has been taking a closer examination of the issues and facts related to endangered languages, i. e. languages which do not have the written form. In the given article we try to investigate the manifestation of the vowel and consonant phonemes in the Enets, the Nganasan and the Selkup languages on the basis of the audio-visual and experimental methods. We understand that current innovative linguistic research may bring about new results that will contribute to the better knowledge of these languages and their phonetic and phonological structures.
Keywords: the aborigines of Siberia: the Enets, the Nganasans, the Selkups; the audio-visual method, the distributive method, a phoneme
Issue: 10, 2012
Pages: 70 — 75
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