Siberian Federal University

Issue

Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2025 18 (2)

Authors

Petrov, Alexander A.; Razumovskaya, Veronica A.

Contact information

Petrov, Alexander A.: Herzen University Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation; Razumovskaya, Veronica A.: Siberian Federal University Krasnoyarsk, Russian Federation; veronica_raz@hotmail.com

Keywords

languages of the Nenets, Enets and Nganasans; Russian language; anthroponyms; language contacts

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to study the anthroponyms of the Samoyedic peoples of the North of Taimyr in synchronic and diachronic aspects. The authors study the circulation of personal names, surnames, nicknames, ethnonyms in the Uralic languages of the Samoyedic peoples (Nenets, Enets, Nganasans) in an inextricable connection with their ethnic culture. The comparative- contrastive analysis includes anthroponyms of other northern and Siberian ethnic groups: Tuvans, Yakuts, Nanais, Chukchi, Udege, etc. The object of the study is anthroponyms, as well as linguistic connections between the Samoyedic peoples of the North of Taimyr and Russians in historical development from the standpoint of modern linguistic contactology. The subject of the research is personal names, surnames, nicknames, ethnonyms of the indigenous peoples of the North of Taimyr: Nenets, Enets, Nganasans. The purpose and objectives of the study: to provide a comprehensive description of the anthroponyms of the small- numbered Samoyedic peoples of Taimyr; to conduct a comparative analysis; to determine the main features of anthroponyms’ circulation and wordbuilding in close connection with material and spiritual culture. The scientific novelty, theoretical and practical significance of the study is associated with the lack of special scientific works devoted to the problem of anthroponyms in a comparative aspect. Special attention is also paid to the contact of languages and cultures in one of the vast regions of the North, Siberia and the Arctic of the Russian Federation – the Taimyr Peninsula. The material is based on the authors’ field materials, as well as conversations with students and teachers of the Institute of Peoples of the North of the Herzen University, i.e. speakers of the Taimyr native languages and ethnic cultures. Since the informants were polylingual, possible assimilation processes and the degree of their significance for the indigenous people of the North were taken into account during the linguistic analysis of the factual material. Research methods: descriptive, comparative, phonetic and lexical-semantic analysis. The results of the work revealed facts that stated that personal names, surnames, nicknames and ethnonyms of the peoples of the North of Taimyr are distinguished by great diversity, and their origin is associated with the peculiarities of the material and spiritual culture of ethnic groups; among the extralinguistic factors that influenced the linguistic material, one of the main ones was close communication of the indigenous people with the Russian population of the region. The article takes into account the published works on onomastics of famous Russian linguists and ethnographers who studied the peoples of the Ural language community: A. A. Popov, B. O. Dolgikh, N. M. Tereshchenko, M. Ya. Barmich, L. V. Khomich, G. N. Gracheva, G. I. Vanuito and others. Other sources of the studied material include dictionaries, monographs, articles, textbooks on the language, ethnography and folklore of the peoples of the North and the Russian population of Siberia and the Arctic. The author comes to the conclusion that the studied material – anthroponyms has gone through a difficult path of contact, mutual enrichment and development; borrowed words reveal phonetic and lexical differences

Pages

250–262

EDN

TVVGFE

Paper at repository of SibFU

https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/154845

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