Mishar Tatar or Western Tatar (Мишәр, Mişär / Mişər , Мишәр Татар, Mişär / Mişər Tatar , көнбатыш татар, könbatış tatar ) is a dialect of Tatar spoken by Mishar Tatars , mainly in Penza , Ulyanovsk , Orenburg , Nizhny Novgorod , Samara , Volgograd , and Saratov oblasts of Russia, in Tatarstan , Bashkortostan , Chuvashia and Mordovia , and also in Finland .
6-618: Some linguists ( Radlov , Samoylovich ) think that Mishar belongs to the Kipchak-Cuman group of languages rather than to the Kipchak-Bulgar group. Especially the regional dialect of Sergachsky district (Nizhny Novgorod) is said to be faithfully close to the ancient Kipchak language . Increased contacts with Kazan Tatars have lessened these differences. Mishar is the dialect spoken by the Tatar minority of Finland . The origins of
12-561: A schoolteacher in Barnaul , Radlov became interested in the native peoples of Siberia and published his ethnographic findings in the influential monograph From Siberia (1884). From 1866 to 1907, he translated and released a number of monuments of Turkic folklore. Most importantly, he was the first to publish the Orhon inscriptions . Four volumes of his comparative dictionary of Turkic languages followed in 1893 to 1911. Radlov helped establish
18-723: Is pronounced [dʒ] . There are no differences between v and w, q and k, g and ğ in the Mişär dialect. The Cyrillic alphabet doesn't have special letters for q, ğ and w, so Mişär speakers have no difficulty reading Tatar written in Cyrillic. Classification of Mishar Tatar dialects: Vasily Radlov Vasily Vasilievich Radlov or Friedrich Wilhelm Radloff ( Russian : Васи́лий Васи́льевич Ра́длов ; 17 January [ O.S. 5 January] 1837 in Berlin – 12 May 1918 in Petrograd )
24-668: The Russian Museum of Ethnography and was in charge of the Asiatic Museum in St. Petersburg from 1884 to 1894. One of the works he published was a Kyrgyz version of the epic Er Töshtük Radlov assisted Grigory Potanin on his glossary of Salar language , Western Yugur language , and Eastern Yugur language in Potanin's 1893 Russian language book The Tangut-Tibetan Borderlands of China and Central Mongolia . During
30-573: The Tatar community living in Finland rest upon the merchants coming from the villages of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast (then-Governorate). Mishar Tatar dialects (сөйләшлер) are according to Makhmutova two (Ch and Ts) or according to Gabdulkhay Akhatov three (Ch, Ts and mixed) groups. In the Western (Mişär) dialect Ç is pronounced [tʃ] (southern or Lambir Mişärs) and as [ts] (northern Mişärs or Nizhgars). C
36-455: Was a German - Russian linguist, ethnographer, and archaeologist, often considered to be the founder of Turkology , the scientific study of Turkic peoples . According to Turkologist Johan Vandewalle , Radlov knew all of the Turkic languages and dialects as well as German , French , Russian , Greek , Latin , Manchu , Mongolian , Chinese , Arabic , Persian , and Hebrew . Working as
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