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Dolgan-Yakut mutual intelligibility
Topic Started: Jun 4 2009, 10:06:08 AM (576 Views)
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Modern Dolgan are descended from four Ewenki clans who adopted the Yakut language and moved into Taimyr Peninsula, displacing the original Nganasan inhabitants. The name Dolgan derives from one of the original clan names. The present language of the Dolgan is closely related to Yakut, and yet, because of significant structural changes induced by the switchover from Ewenki, Dolgan is usually considered a separate language (though some scholars claim it is a dialect of Yakut). In any event the Dolgan consider themselves to be a separate ethnic group. Today there are nearly 7,000 Dolgan (about 6,000 speak their native language fluently).

http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/vajda/ea210/yakut.htm

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In spite of local divergences in speech, there is excellent mutual intelligibility among the speeches of all groups and also with that of the northern Yakut.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Dolgan.aspx

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Some scholars (e.g., Campbell 2000) also consider Dolgan a dialect of Yakut, but the two languages are not mutually intelligible, and therefore it is more proper to classify them as two separate languages.


Mutually intelligible, observed passive two-way bilingualism
p. 976
Atlas of Languages of Intercultural Communication in the Pacific, Asia, and

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however, due to
a large number of lexical differences (changes in the semantics of shared lexical
items, innovations, Evenki lexical copies) and phonetic changes there is only a low
degree of mutual intelligibility. Its classification as a separate language has therefore
both linguistic (Ubrjatova 1966) and sociopolitical grounds (Artem’ev 1999a: 45).

http://www.lotpublications.nl/publish/articles/002575/bookpart.pdf
Edited by ren, Sep 29 2012, 05:41:37 PM.
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Dolgan ethnographic formation process is going on. This is nothing special. However, in North Asian minorities this process is constantly reinforced by mainstream populations like Russians and Sakha. This can mean that language and the negotiation of "Dolgan" identities might be constantly changing at more than one location. So maybe there is or was more than different tongue called "Dolgan".
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