Studies

Studies on the languages in the DOBES archive are collected here. See also the grammars page for a collection of grammars.

Ėven project:

• Intensive Contact and the Copying of Paradigms: An Ėven Dialect in Contact with Sakha (Yakut). Linguistic study on the Sakha/Yakut influence on Sebjan Even by Brigitte Pakendorf.
• The Acoustic Correlates of Tongue Root Vowel Harmony in Even (Tungusic). Linguistic study on phonetic issue in Even by Natalia Aralova, Sven Grawunder and Bodo Winter.
• Does Even have ATR? – Testing phonological hypotheses in an endangered language. Linguistic study on phonological issue in Even by Natalia Aralova and Sven Grawunder.
• Diagrams of kinship terminology in Topolinoe (Sebjan-Küöl, Yakutia-Sakha) by Alexandra Lavrillier.

Kola Sámi project:

• Samiska i Ryssland – planläggning av en sociolingvistisk utredning. Paper by Elisabeth Scheller (in Swedish and Russian) about her survey of Kola Sámi language sociology.
• Die Sprachsituation der Saami in Russland. Paper by Elisabeth Scheller (in German) about the Kola Sámi language situation.
• Documenting the endangered Kola Saami languages. Paper by Michael Rießler and Joshua Wilbur on Kola Saami documentary linguistics.
• Towards a digital infrastructure for Kildin Saami. Paper by Michael Rießler on documentary linguistics and language planning for Kildin Saami.
• Documentation of Saami languages at DoBeS and ELAR. Poster by Joshua Wilbur, Kristina Kotcheva and Michael Rießler on Saami documentary linguistics.
• Situacija saamskich jazykov v Rossii. Preprint of a paper by Elisabeth Scheller (in Russian) on Kola Saami language sociology.
• Le same de Kildin face aux médias, une revitalisation de la langue? Preprint of a paper by Michael Rießler (in French) on Kildin Saami media history.
• Komi-Saami-Russian contacts on the Kola Peninsula. Preprint of a paper by Rogier Blokland and Michael Rießler on Kola Saami language contacts.
• Purism in Kildin Saami language documentation and description. Preprint of a paper by Michael Rießler and Elena Karvovskaya on Kildin Saami sociolinguistics.
• K voprosy o tverdych, mjagkich i polumjagkich soglasnych v kol’skosaamskom. Preprint of a paper by Jurij Kusmenko and Michael Rießler (in Russian) on Kola Saami phonology.
• The Sámi Language Situation in Russia. Preprint of a paper by Elisabeth Scheller on Kola Saami language sociology.

Morehead (Nen and Tonda) project

• Kmntso Dictionary (Kmntso Tsokwasi, 2012). A work-in-progress Kmntso-English dictionary.
• Nen Dictionary (A preliminary dictionary of Nen-Zi, 2012). A work-in-progress Nen-English dictionary.
• Nama Dictionary (Nama-English Lexicon, 2012). A work-in-progress Nama-English dictionary.

People of the Center

• Various studies and descriptions of the documented languages in the People of the Center project can be found here.

Waima’a project

• Glosáriu Waima’a Caisido. Glossary Waima’a-Tetum-Portuguese-English-Malay.