UDC

81’282.2

DOI

10.17238/issn2227-6564.2019.2.39

Authors

Svetlana V. Nagurnaya
Karelian Research Centre, Russian Academy of Sciences;
ul. Pushkinskaya 11, Petrozavodsk, 185910, Respublika Kareliya, Russian Federation;
e-mail: kov@krc.karelia.ru
Aleksandra P. Rodionova
ul. Pushkinskaya 11, Petrozavodsk, 185910, Respublika Kareliya, Russian Federation;
e-mail: santrar@krc.karelia.ru, sashenka22@yandex.ru

Abstract

The article presents an analysis of pre-revolutionary publications describing the unique Zaonezhye dialect spoken in northern Russia. The object of this research is a relic of the Old Novgorod dialect and is now rapidly disappearing from the language palette of the Republic of Karelia. Most of the materials considered in the paper were published in the late 19th century in the periodical Olonetskie Gubernskie Vedomosti, in memorial yearbooks of the Olonets Province, in the magazine Zhivaya Starina, and others. Few of them were republished, thus being of undoubted scholarly value nowadays when the autochthonous language of Zaonezhye has become almost extinct. These publications are mainly empirical descriptions of the Zaonezhye dialect, presenting its main lexical and orthoepic features. Among them, the most frequently mentioned are the shift of the stress to the first syllable, the ts–ch merger, and the presence of the Baltic Finnic component in the vocabulary. Moreover, as early as before the revolution the authors noted that local dialects were at a turning point of transition to the national, i.e. literary language. This is also pointed out by contemporary researchers, who define the speech of the majority of Zaonezhye dwellers today as a semi-dialect. To date, the subdialects of Zaonezhye have been comprehensively examined in terms of their phonetic, grammatical and lexical features, as well as their subdivisions and boundaries, historical origin and the role of the Baltic Finnic component in their formation. The materials presented in this article demonstrate that this unique language had fascinated local historians, travellers and researchers long before its systematic study.

Keywords

Olonets Province, Zaonezhye, Olonetskie Gubernskie Vedomosti, Zaonezhye dialect

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