A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal

Finnish Tatars and the trilingual Tatar-Finnish dictionary




AuthorsJorma Luutonen, Arto Moisio, Okan Daher

PublisherHarrassowitz

Publishing placeWiesbaden

Publication year2017

JournalTurkic Languages

Volume21

Issue2

First page 266

Last page280

Number of pages15

ISSN1431-4983


Abstract


The first part of the article gives an
account of the history and characteristics of the Finnish Tatar minority of approx.
700 people. This group was formed about a hundred years ago when Mishar Tatar-speaking
merchants from Tsarist Russia began to settle in Finland. Special emphasis is
given to factors explaining the vitality of the Tatar heritage language. The
second part describes the compilation and characteristics of the Tatar-Finnish
dictionary, which contains both Kazan Tatar and Finnish Tatar vocabulary. The problems
encountered in dictionary making are treated as evidence giving insight into
the language ecology of the Finnish Tatar language community.





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