A. P. Rodionova, S. V. Nagurnaia (Petrozavodsk, Russia). Ludic dialect: problems of creating of the literary norm

Aleksandra P. Rodionova,
Candidate Sc. {Philology}, Research Fellow, Department of Linguistics,
Institute of Language, Literature and History,
Karelian Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences
(Petrozavodsk, Russia), santrar@krc.karelia.ru

Svetlana V. Nagurnaia,
Candidate Sc. {Philology}, Secretary for Science, Department of Linguistics,
Institute of Language, Literature and History,
Karelian Research Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences
(Petrozavodsk, Russia), kov@krc.karelia.ru

The relevance of this article is defined by the revitalization processes in the Karelian language in the Republic of Karelia, when the Ludic language appeared on the periphery of it. The purpose of the article is to identify the most actual problems in the normalization of the Ludic dialect and to outline its possible solutions. The main problem remains the fact that each Ludic subdialect has its own distinctive features. This applies to both vocabulary and grammar. The presented materials will be of interest to researchers involved in the development of the newly written languages, the creation of a literary norm and codification.
The research employs descriptive, comparative and verification methods. The dialectal data and examples of the standardized language were used as linguistic data.
The article presents the main problems of norming the Ludic dialect of the Karelian language and some possibilities for their solution.
The main problem in the norming of the Ludic dialect is that its dialects are very different from each other while the influence of the Vepsian component on the Ludic dialect was uneven throughout the whole territory of its distribution, with the Mikhaylovskiy dialect at most. The dialects have their own distinctive features, which applies to both vocabulary and grammar. Therefore, the manuals created on the basis of the Mikhaylovskiy dialect are not always easily accepted by the native speakers. In addition to linguistic problems, the norming of the Ludic dialect is affected by the shortage of specialists who can speak their own dialect fluently and who could establish a literary norm of Ludic dialect in the joint effort.

Key words: Karelian language; Ludic dialect; norming; unification; dialects.

For citation: Rodionova AP, Nagurnaia SV. Ludic dialect: problems of creating of the literary norm. Finno-ugorskii mir = Finno-Ugric World. 2018; 2: 48–57. (In Russian)

Acknowledgment: Contributions to the research should be acknowledged to the support by АААА-А18-118012490344-5 “Baltic-Finnic Languages of the North-West Russian Federation: linguistic research in sociocultural context”.