Ingrian language
Ingrian (also called Izhorian) is a nearly extinct Finnic language spoken by the (mainly Orthodox) Izhorians of Ingria. It has approximately 142 native speakers left, most of whom are aged. It should not be confused with the Southeastern dialects of the Finnish language that became the majority language of Ingria in the 17th century with the influx of Lutheran Finnish immigrants (whose descendants, Ingrian Finns, are often referred to as Ingrians). The immigration of Lutheran Finns was promoted by Swedish authorities (who gained the area in 1617 from Russia), as the local population was (and remained) Orthodox. In total the language has 360 - 500 speakers.[3][4]
Ingrian | |
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ižoran keel | |
Native to | Russia |
Region | Ingria |
Ethnicity | 820 Izhorians (1989 census)[1] |
Native speakers | 142 (379 in total) (2010 census)[1] |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | izh |
Glottolog | ingr1248 [2] |
History
In 1932–1937, a Latin-based orthography for the Ingrian language existed, taught in schools of the Soikino Peninsula and the area around the mouth of the Luga River.[5] Several textbooks were published, including, in 1936, a grammar of the language. However, in 1937 the Izhorian written language was abolished and mass repressions of the peasantry began.[5]
Alphabet (1932)
A a | Ä ä | B в | D d | E e | F f | G g | H h |
I i | J j | K k | L l | M m | N n | Ö ö | P p |
R r | S s | T t | U u | V v | Y y |
Alphabet (1936)
The order of the 1936 alphabet is similar to the Russian Cyrillic alphabet.
A a | Ä ä | B в | V v | G g | D d | E e | Ƶ ƶ |
Z z | I i | J j | K k | L l | M m | N n | O o |
Ö ö | P p | R r | S s | T t | U u | Y y | F f |
H h | C c | Ç ç | Ş ş | ь |
Alphabet (2005–present)
The order of the current alphabet matches the Finnish alphabet.
A a | B b | C c | D d | E e | F f | G g | H h |
I i | J j | K k | L l | M m | N n | O o | P p |
R r | S s | Š š | T t | U u | V v | Y y | Z z |
Ž ž | Ä ä | Ö ö |
Dialects
Four dialects groups of Ingrian have been attested, two of which are probably extinct by now:[6][7]
- Hevaha, spoken along Kovashi River and nearby coastal areas (†)
- Soikkola, spoken on Soikinsky Peninsula and along Sista River
- Oredezhi, spoken along Orodezh River and the upper Luga River (†)
- Lower Luga, a divergent dialect influenced by Votic.
A fifth dialect may have once been spoken on the Karelian Isthmus in northernmost Ingria, and may have been a substrate of local dialects of southwestern Finnish.[6]
Grammar
Like other Uralic languages, Ingrian is a highly agglutinative language.
Nouns
Adjectives
Verbs
Phonology
References
- Ingrian at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
- Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Ingrian". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- https://www.omniglot.com/writing/ingrian.htm. Missing or empty
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(help) - Kurs, Ott (1994). Ingria: The broken landbridge between Estonia and Finland. GeoJournal 33.1, 107–113.
- Viitso, Tiit-Rein (1998). "Fennic". In Abondolo, Daniel (ed.). Uralic languages. Routledge. pp. 98–99.
- Kuznetsova, Natalia; Markus, Elena; Mulinov, Mehmed (2015), "Finnic minorities of Ingria: The current sociolinguistic situation and its background", in Marten, H.; Rießler, M.; Saarikivi, J.; et al. (eds.), Cultural and linguistic minorities in the Russian Federation and the European Union, Multilingual Education, 13, Berlin: Springer, pp. 151–152, ISBN 978-3-319-10454-6, retrieved 25 March 2015
Bibliography
- Paul Ariste 1981. Keelekontaktid. Tallinn: Valgus. [pt. 2.6. Kolme läänemere keele hääbumine lk. 76 – 82] (in Estonian)
- A. Laanest. 1993. Ižorskij Jazyk. In V. N. Jartseva (ed.), Jazyki Mira: Ural'skie Jazyki, 55-63. Moskva: Nauka.
- V. Chernyavskij. 2005. Ižorskij Jazyk (Samuchitel'). Ms. 300pp.
External links
Ingrian language test of Wikipedia at Wikimedia Incubator |
- V.Cherniavskij "Izoran keeli (Ittseopastaja)/Ижорский язык (Самоучитель) (Ingrian Self-Study Book")"(in Russian).
- Ingrian verb conjugation
- Ingrian language resources at Giellatekno
- Virtual ingrian
- Wikimedia in ingrian
- Ingermaan sana