Finland Tatar

Year 2023, Volume: 13 Issue: 23 - Language Documentation in Comparative Turkic Linguistics, 253 - 271, 31.12.2023

Sabira Stahlberg

Abstract

Finland Tatar is a Tatar diaspora variety spoken today by fewer than a thousand multilingual speakers. During the past century, it developed from Mishar, a western dialect of Tatar, into a language influenced by Finnish and Kazan Tatar. This article presents both a historical and a modern language version of the same text, originally published in 1969, about sauna traditions among Tatars and Finns. Linguistic changes of different types are highlighted, including a transition from Arabic to Latin script, orthographic and phonetic variations, and vocabulary.

Keywords

Finland, language development, Mishar, Tatar diaspora, Tatar language

Finlandiya Tatarcası

Abstract

Finlandiya Tatarcası, çokdilli olan konuşurlarının sayısı günümüzde binden az olan bir diyaspora Tatar değişkesidir. Bu değişke, geçen yüzyıl boyunca, Tatarcanın batı ağzı olan Mişer Tatarcası temelinde, Fince ve Kazan Tatarcasının etkisi altında gelişmiştir. Makale, 1969’da Finler ve Tatarlardaki sauna gelenekleri hakkında yayınlanmış olan bir metnin eski ve modern dilde iki versiyonunu ele almaktadır. Bu iki versiyon ü zerinden Arap harflerinden Latin harflerine geçiş, ortografik ve fonetik değişiklikler ve söz varlığI dahil olmak üzere farklı dilbilimsel değişmeler ortaya konmaktadır.

Keywords

Finlandiya, dil gelişimi, Mişer Tatarcası, Tatar diyasporası, Tatarca

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