A study in the Uzbek vowel system formation

• Project/Area Number: 25370490
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Linguistics
• Research Institution: Nagoya University
• Principal Investigator: Ido Shinji 名古屋大学, 国際開発研究科, 准教授 (80419233)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2016)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,810,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,110,000); Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,560,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥360,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,690,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,300,000、Indirect Cost: ¥390,000)
• Keywords: ウズベク語 / タジク語 / 回回館訳語 / ヘブライ文字 / ペルシア語 / 母音体系 / 連鎖推移 / ブハラ / 回回館雑字 / 母音推移 / サマルカンド / 言語接触 / 中央アジア / 言語学 / 新ペルシア語 / ティムール朝

Outline of Final Research Achievements

I extracted linguistic data from 回回館雑字 (huihuiguan zazi), a New Persian-Chinese glossary compiled in Ming China, and Sefer Tokhen Alilot, a literary (prose) work written more than a century ago in Hebrew script by a Bukharan Jew, and analyzed them to identify changes that the vowel systems of Uzbek and Tajik have undergone in the last centuries. I also analyzed the acoustics of (mainly) vowels in present-day Uzbek and Tajik spoken in Bukhara, Tashkent, Angren, and Dushanbe. Several findings emerged from these analyses; in the Tajik vowel chain shift, the raising of Early New Persian long a preceded the fronting of (long) o, and hence the chain shift was likely a push-chain shift; the vowel system of Bukharan bilinguals in the late 19th-century was a six-member vowel system consisting of i, e, a, o, u, and the open-mid back rounded vowel.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] The vowel system of Jewish Bukharan Tajik: With special reference to the Tajik vowel chain shift (2017)
  • Author(s): Shinji Ido
  • Journal Title: Journal of Jewish Languages Volume: 5(1) Issue: 1 Pages: 1-23
  • DOI: 10.1163/22134638-12340078
  • NAID: 120006334772
  • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Huihuiguan zazi: A New Persian glossary compiled in Ming China (2017)
  • Author(s): Shinji Ido
  • Journal Title: Trends in Iranian and Persian Linguistics Volume: 印刷中
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] A late 19th-century Uzbek text in Hebrew script (2016)
  • Author(s): Shinji Ido
  • Journal Title: Turkic Languages Volume: 20 Pages: 216-233
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] New Persian vowels transcribed in Ming China (2015)
  • Author(s): Shinji Ido
  • Journal Title: Cahiers de Studia Iranica Volume: 57 Pages: 99-136
  • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Bukharan Tajik (2014)
  • Author(s): Shinji Ido
  • Journal Title: Journal of the International Phonetic Association Volume: 44(1) Issue: 1 Pages: 87-102
  • DOI: 10.1017/s002510031300011x
  • NAID: 120005672360
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] A state language based on a minority language in a neighbouring state (2017)
  • Author(s): Shinji Ido
  • Organizer: st International Conference on Revitalization of Indigenous and Minoritized Languages
  • Place of Presentation: Universitat de Barcelona
  • Year and Date: 2017-04-19
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Presentation] A vowel shift (or lack thereof) in two Indo-Iranian languages (2016)
  • Author(s): Shinji Ido
  • Organizer: 37th Annual Conference of the Linguistic Society of Nepal
  • Place of Presentation: Tribhuvan University
  • Year and Date: 2016-11-26
  • Int'l Joint Research
• [Remarks] Shinji Ido 井土愼二
  • URL: http://ido.ifdef.jp/
• [Remarks] The Vowel System of Jewish Bukharan Tajik
  • URL: https://doi.org/10.1163/22134638-12340078
• [Remarks] http://ido.ifdef.jp/