Baraba or Baraba Tatar, is spoken by at least 8,000 Baraba Tatars in Siberia. It is a dialect of Siberian Tatar language.[3] While middle aged individuals and the young generation speak Russian and Volga-Ural Tatar languages, the Baraba dialect is used by the older generation.[4]
| Baraba | |
|---|---|
| Paraba | |
| Native to | Russia |
| Region | Siberia |
| Ethnicity | Baraba Tatars |
Native speakers | (8,000 cited 1979)[1] |
Turkic
| |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
| Glottolog | bara1273 |
| ELP | Baraba Tatar |
 Baraba Tatar is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger | |
History
The Arabic script has been historically used to write the language. The Latin script was adopted in 1928 but was replaced with the Cyrillic script in 1938.[citation needed] While standard Volga Tatar is widely taught in local schools, Baraba Tatar is not.[5]
Geographic distribution
Baraba Tatar is spoken mainly in the Novosibirsk Oblast, in Omsk Oblast, in Russia. Standard Volga–Ural Tatar is taught at local Tatar schools.
Sounds
Consonants
| Labial | Dental | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | Voiceless | p | t | k | q | ||
| Voiced | b | d | ɡ | ||||
| Affricate | ts | tʃ | |||||
| Fricative | Voiceless | (f) | s | ʃ | x | h | |
| Voiced | (v) | (z) | (ʒ) | ɣ | |||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ||||
| Lateral | l | ||||||
| Trill | r | ||||||
| Semivowel | Plain | j | |||||
| Labial | ɥ | w | |||||
- Sounds in parentheses appear only in loan words.
- The sounds [ts] and [tʃ] appear in free variation. The replacement of /tʃ/ with /ts/ is a feature that distinguishes Baraba from Volga–Ural Tatar.[6]
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| -round | +round | -round | +comp. | +round | -round | +round | |
| High | i | y | ɯ | u | |||
| Mid | e | ø | ë | ø̈ | ö | o | |
| Low | æ | ɑ | |||||
See also
References
External links
- (in Russian) Atlas of Tatar dialects
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