Mator language
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Mator or Motor is an extinct Samoyedic language, extinct since around 1839. It was spoken in the northern region of the Sayan Mountains in Siberia, close to the Mongolian north border. The speakers of Mator, Matorians or Mators[ru], lived in a wide area from the eastern parts of the Minusinsk District (okrug) along the Yenisei River to the region of LakeBaikal. Three dialects of Mator were recorded: Mator proper as well as Taygi and Karagas (occasionally portrayed as separate languages, but their differences are few). Mator was influenced by Mongolic, Tungusic and Turkic languages before it went extinct, and may have even been possibly influenced by the Iranic languages.[page needed] It went extinct as a result of the Mator people shifting linguistically to the related Kamas language or nearby Altaic-sprachbund languages, like Buryat, Soyot, Khakas, Evenki and Tatar.
Today the term "Mator people" is simply a name of a seok of the Koibal, one of the five territorial sub-division groups of the Khakas. (Note that the name "Koibal" likewise derives from the related Samoyedic Koibal language).
Mator has been frequently grouped together with Selkup and Kamassian as "South Samoyedic". This is however a grouping by geographical area, and not considered to constitute an actual sub-branch of the Samoyedic languages.
Phonology
Consonants
| Bilabial | Dental/ Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | voiceless | (p) | t | t͡ʃ | k | ʔ |
| voiced | b | (d) | (d͡ʒ) | (ɡ) | ||
| Fricative | voiceless | s | (ʃ) | h | ||
| voiced | (z) | (ʒ) | ||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||
| Rhotic | r | |||||
| Approximant | central | j | ||||
| lateral | l |
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| unrounded | rounded | ||||
| Close | short | i | y | (ɨ) | u |
| long | iː | yː | (ɨː)? | uː | |
| Mid | short | e | ø | ə | o |
| long | eː | øː? | əː | oː | |
| Open | short | æ | a | ||
| long | æː | aː | |||
| Reduced | e̽ |
Lexicon
Below are some Mator words from Helimski 1997.[page needed]
kälä
fish
mondoh
root
sörüh
rain
kaduh
storm
baada
word
kaasa
human
ämdä
horn
täjbä
nail
täär
divide, share
köhö
winter
öröh
autumn
teite
four
mən
me, I
tən
you
ter
hair
ajba
head
siime
eye
Bibliography
- Helimski, Eugen (1997). [The Mator Language: Dictionary – Principles of Grammar – Language History] (PDF). Studia Uralo-Altaica [Uralic-Altaic Studies] (in German). Vol. 41. University of Szeged. ISBN 9630481-881-1. (PDF) from the original on 29 January 2021.
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External links
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