Baraba language edit extracted from Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia (using Wikipedia Reflection Script)

Baraba or Baraba Tatar is spoken by at least 8,000 people in Siberia. It is dialect of Tatar.

Baraba Tatar falls into a continuum of Tatar dialects spoken through Siberia.

Geographic Distribution

Baraba Tatar is spoken in the Novosibirsk, Tyumen and Tomsk Oblasts in Russia. Standard Tatar is used as the literary language.

Differences from Standard Tatar

Baraba Tatar possesses a number of features that distinguish it from Kazan Tatar:

• Change of /tʃ/ to /ts/: tʃætʃ → tsæts "hair"
• Devoicing of initial stops: baʃ → paʃ "head"
• Devoicing of final /z/ to /s/: sez → sis "you (plural)"
• Lack of sound changes /e/ ↔ /i/ and /o/ ↔ /u/: jort → jurt "home", kil- → kel- "come"

Sounds

Consonants

• Sounds in paretheses appear only in loan words.
• The sounds ʦ and ʧ appear in free variation. The replacement of ʧ with ʦ is a feature that distinguishes Baraba from Kazan Tatar.¹

Vowels

See also

• Tatars
• Tatar language

References