The Linguistic World of Sakhalin : Viewed from Lexical Borrowing

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  • サハリンの言語世界 : 単語借用から見る

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Abstract

The present paper intends to be a brief introduction to the linguistic world of Sakhalin. The first two sections include a brief description on the linguistic situation of Sakhalin, with special reference to the recent publication of the Uilta first primer. In Section 3, some examples of lexical borrowing among Sakhalin languages are drawn from previous studies. The forth section is devoted to an attempt to trace the route of the words for 'walrus' and 'tusk'. As a tentative result, a Chukchi word for 'walrus' was borrowed by Even with changing the meaning into 'tusk', and then it spread to most of the Tungusic languages. The Uilta word for 'walrus', which may be a doublet of the word for 'tusk', was possibly introduced into Nivkh and Sakhalin Ainu. Then the Nivkh form for 'walrus' was brought into other Amur Tungusic. Finally, the author remarks possible mutual influences in grammatical structure and oral literature, and suggests the importance of Sakhalin as a linguistic area.

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  • CRID
    1050001202571267584
  • NII Article ID
    120006660454
  • NII Book ID
    BA89310329
  • HANDLE
    2115/38294
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Article Type
    conference paper
  • Data Source
    • IRDB
    • CiNii Articles
    • KAKEN

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