Baraba dialect

Baraba
Paraba
Native to	Russia
Region	Siberia
Native speakers	unknown (8,000 cited 1979)[1]
Language family	Turkic Kypchak Kipchak–Noghay Siberian Tatar Baraba
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–
Glottolog	bara1273[2]

Baraba or Baraba Tatar is spoken by at least 8,000 Baraba Tatars in Siberia. It is a dialect of Siberian Tatar.^[3] While middle aged individuals and the young generation speak the Russian and Siberian Tatar languages, Baraba Tatar language is used by the older generation.^[4]

Geographic Distribution

Baraba Tatar is spoken mainly in the Novosibirsk Oblast in Russia. Standard Volga–Ural Tatar is taught at local Tatar schools.

Sounds

Consonants

The consonants of Baraba

	Labial	Dental	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Plosive	p b	t d		k ɡ	q
Affricate		ts	tʃ
Fricative	(f) (v)	s (z)	ʃ (ʒ)	x ɣ		h
Nasal	m	n		ŋ
Lateral Glide		l
Trill		r
Semivowel	w ɥ		j

• Sounds in paretheses 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.^[5]

Vowels

The vowels of Baraba

	Front	Central	Back
High	i y		ɯ u
Mid	e ø	ë ø̈ ö	o
Low	æ		a

See also

• Siberian Tatars

References

1. "The Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire". Archived from the original on 15 October 2006. Retrieved 2006-10-21.
2. Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Baraba". Glottolog. Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
3. Tumasheva, D. G. [Тумашева Д. Г.] 1977. Диалекты сибирских татар. Опыт сравнительного исследования. Казань, 1977 (Russian)
4. Güllüdağ, Nesrin 2013. "Baraba Tatarlarının dili üzerine bir inceleme." In AVRASYA Uluslararası Arastırmalar Dergisi 2(3):88-128. Temmuz 2013. (Turkish)
5. Дмитриева, Л. В. (1981). Язык Барабинских Татар (Материалы и Исследования) (in Russian). Leningrad: Академия Наук СССР.