Комментарии к чувашским материалам Г.Ф. Миллера

Российская тюркология. 2024. № 40-41. С. 24–52.

Savelyev A.

The paper deals with the Chuvash language materials recorded by the participant of the Great Northern Expedition, academician Gerhard Friedrich Müller. In 1733, Müller documented more than 300 Chuvash lexical items in northern Chuvashia and in the vicinity of Kazan. His materials should be considered the earliest detailed source on the “historical” dialects of Chuvash. It is shown that Müller’s orthography is to a large extent systematic, and his records are, in principle, interpretable in terms of historical phonology, morphology, and lexicology. Certain features of the Chuvash dialects documented by Müller should be seen as particularly archaic.

Keywords: историческая фонетика, historical phonology, чувашский язык, Chuvash language, old written Chuvash sources, старочувашские памятники, historical dialectology, G.F. Müller, историческая диалектология, Г.Ф. Миллер