ON THE PERSPECTIVES OF CREATING A DICTIONARY OF THE BESERMAN DIALECT OF THE UDMURT LANGUAGE (BASED ON THE MATERIALS OF T. I. TEPLYASHINA)

Abstract

The Besermans are a small people of the north-west of Udmurtia who speak one of the dialects of the Udmurt language. In recent years, the Beserman dialect has become the object of close attention of linguists. The results of these field studies were embodied in the publication of two dictionaries, a monograph and separate articles. An active researcher of the Beserman language was T. I. Teplyashina back in the 60s of the last century. She published a monograph primarily devoted to the description of the phonetics and morphology of the Beserman dialect. However, better part of her card-file with Beserman words, expressions and examples of their using in speech remained unused. This card-file is a unique linguistic heritage, representing the Beserman language of informants who were born at the beginning of the 20th and even at the end of the 19th century. It is waiting for processing of materials and creating a dictionary. In this article, a small fragment of a future dictionary is given as an example.