Things to look at in Kyrgyz dialects: Difference between revisions

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By:
* Age
* Age
* Urbanisation
* Urbanisation (city, village, steppe)
* Multilingualism (esp. influence from Russian (Bishkek), Kazakh (Talas), Uzbek (Osh))
* Multilingualism (esp. influence from Russian (Bishkek), Kazakh (Talas), Uzbek (Osh))



Revision as of 04:31, 28 May 2007

What to look at:

  • Rounding harmony systems
  • How far through a word harmony spreads
  • Monopthongisation — phonetic and phonological
  • Tonogenesis
  • Acoustic properties of vowel system
    • [reduction and diphthongisation of] high vowels (Russified in Bishkek, Kazakhified in Talas?)
    • low vowels as related to rounding harmony
  • The 9th vowel, phonemic?

By:

  • Age
  • Urbanisation (city, village, steppe)
  • Multilingualism (esp. influence from Russian (Bishkek), Kazakh (Talas), Uzbek (Osh))