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TATAR-MIGRANTS IN TOMSK AND ITS VICINITIES (XVII–XX centuries) // Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology. 2016. Issue 3 (13). P. 60-73

The article deals with issues related to the resettlement of the representatives of the Tatar ethnic group in Western Siberia. The author singles out government reform as the main reason of migration to Siberia. In addition, they settled on the Tomsk area as traders and exiles; settlers went for a better share. The article observed that the territory of the Volga and Ural regions is the main source for the Tatar migration. The author identifies the resettlement areas of The tatar ethnic group. Some Tatars settled in the ethnic villages of the local (Tomsk) Tatars, some established new localities. Thus Yurts Kazan, Kirek, Birch River, Serebryakovsky, Novyi Kazanka, Novyi Islamboul, Nurkai, Tukai, Sarzas were formed the same way. Most of the studied settlements are the part of the Tomsk region.

Keywords: Siberia, Tomsk, resettlement, migration, Kazan tatars, Tomsk tatars, village settlers

SOME LINGUISTIC AND ETHNOGRAPHIC ASPECTS OF THE TOMSK-TATAR KINSHIP AND RITUAL TERMINOLOGY // Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology. 2022. Issue 4 (38). P. 48-58

This article deals with a linguistic and ethnographic analysis of the kinship and ritual terminology of the Tomsk Tatars. The Tomsk Tatars are the indigenous population of the Tomsk Ob region, which formed ethnolinguistic groups before the arrival of the Russian-speaking population. The Tomsk Tatars include Kalmaks, Eushtins, and Chats, the latter two groups being grouped in a subdialect – Eushta-Chat. The number of Tomsk Tatars in their traditional places of residence is about 3 thousand people. The article analyzes the data documented during the ethnolinguistic expeditions 2009–2019: Tomsk-Tatar terms divided into lexical-semantic groups in terms of ethnographic classification of family rites (maternity, marriage, burial) and description of family genealogy (terms of kinship). In the course of fieldwork, ethnic stories were recorded, and genealogical schemes were created to identify the family composition and determine family ties within the group and family ties between neighboring villages (responses to family ritual terminology were recorded in both Tatar and Russian). The vocabulary studied refers mainly to the Eushta-Chat subdialect (if so, there is no indication of its origin); if data on the Kalmak subdialect is available, information on their origin is provided. In addition, dialect data from published articles by A. P. Dulzon and R. K. Urazmanova are also given. When it is possible to determine the composition of word forms, a morphological marker is given, a literal translation is also provided, and lexical parallels with the literary Tatar language are copied from open lexicographic sources. The general conclusion of the article is that in the modern kinship and ritual terminology of the Tomsk-Tatar subdialects, there prevail units identical to the literary equivalents, often in a different phonetic form according to the laws of alternation of Turkic phonemes. A number of units do not find parallels with the literary Tatar language, and there are also vocabularies with unclear etymology. Most examples of genealogical terms are direct translations of descriptive terminology from Russian.

Keywords: Tomsk Tatars, Tomsk-Tatar dialects, ritual terms, kinship terms