What Status of the Vasyugan Khanty Vernacular Do Calculations on the LingvoDoc Platform Support from the Point of View of Systemic Morphological Characteristics?
https://doi.org/10.15514/ISPRAS-2025-37(2)-17
Abstract
In this study the object of analysis is Vasyugan Khanty. Its status raises controversial opinions in Khanty studies. To clarify the status of the Vasyugan idiom as a separate dialect or as an accent of the Vakh-Vasyugan dialect, we employed modern methods of language data analysis. We used corpus data of the two varieties of the Khanty language, namely, Vakh Khanty and Vasyugan Khanty, available at the LingvoDoc platform to calculate their morphological proximity by means of the online virtual laboratory tool. The analysis results point to the fact that the morphological systems of the Vakh and Vasyugan Khanty vernaculars coincide by 98%, which confirms their morphological unity and affiliation with one and the same dialectal continuum. The machine analysis of the morphological dictionaries, cognate groups and transcriptions identified only three autonomous affixes in each idiom. Due to the fact that the volumes of the corpus data of the two varieties are unbalanced, the unique autonomous morphological affixes in each idiom can be regarded as a tentative argument subject to correction.
Keywords
Khanty language Vasyugan dialect,
field data,
text corpora,
LingvoDoc,
data analysis,
language documentation.
Supporting agencies: The authors are grateful to the anonymous reviewers for their insightful comments to the article. The research was funded by the Russian Science Foundation, project no. 25-78-20002 “Capabilities of Artificial Intelligence for Comparative-Historical Study of Low-Resource Languages of the Peoples of the Russian Federation”.
About the Authors
Victoria Vladimirovna VOROBEVA
Ivannikov Institute for System Programming of the Russian Academy of Sciences, National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Cand. Sci. (Philology), Associate Professor of Department of Foreign Languages, School of Social Sciences of National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University since 1999. At the present time she is a researcher at the Linguistic Platforms Laboratory of Information Systems Department as well. Research interests: comparative typological linguistics, Uralic family of languages, corpus linguistics, documentation and digital processing of endangered languages of Russia.
Irina Vladimirovna NOVITSKAYA
National Research Tomsk State University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Dr. Sci. (Philology), professor at the Department of English Philology, National Research Tomsk State University. Research interests: morphology and semantics of the Old Germanic languages, typological studies, comparative studies, morpho-syntactical properties of Khanty lexical units, applied linguistics.
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VOROBEVA V.V., NOVITSKAYA I.V. What Status of the Vasyugan Khanty Vernacular Do Calculations on the LingvoDoc Platform Support from the Point of View of Systemic Morphological Characteristics? Proceedings of the Institute for System Programming of the RAS (Proceedings of ISP RAS). 2025;37(2):237-246. https://doi.org/10.15514/ISPRAS-2025-37(2)-17
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