Contemporary Interdisciplinary Research on the Languages and Peoples of Southern Siberia: An Experience in Linguistics and Genetics
- Authors: Gruntov I.A.1,2, Maltseva V.S.3, Stepanov V.A.2, Kharkov V.N.2
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Affiliations:
- Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Tomsk National Research Medical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Scientific Research Institute of Medical Genetics
- Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Issue: No 4 (2025)
- Pages: 154 - 169
- Section: FOR THE SCIENTIST'S ANNIVERSARY
- URL: https://medbiosci.ru/2307-6119/article/view/359881
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.23951/2307-6119-2025-4-154-169
- ID: 359881
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Abstract
Using a specific case study on the classification of the Turkic languages of Southern Siberia, this paper examines the potential for combining data from linguistic and population genetic studies. Analysis of similar rules in several dialects belonging to three Turkic genealogical language groups suggests that the influence of these rules in each group is only partly related to a Sayan-Samoyedic substrate, most likely due to language shift that is, the transition of the Sayan Samoyedic people to several Turkic languages. A similar hypothesis was previously proposed by A. Dulzon (Andreas Dulson), but it has not been supported by comparative historical analysis. For Northern Altaic idioms, it appears more likely that the Sayan Samoyeds themselves did not transite to these lects, but rather that a secondary language shift occurred among the Shors, who were already Samoyeds at that time and had adopted a Turkic language. Population genetic data support this hypothesis.
About the authors
Ilya Aleksandrovich Gruntov
Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences; Tomsk National Research Medical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Scientific Research Institute of Medical Genetics
Author for correspondence.
Email: ilyagr@iling-ran.ru
Moscow, Russia; Tomsk, Russia
Vera Sergeevna Maltseva
Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Email: vmaltseva@iling-ran.ru
Moscow, Russia
Vadim Anatolevich Stepanov
Tomsk National Research Medical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Scientific Research Institute of Medical Genetics
Email: vadim.stepanov@medgenetics.ru
Tomsk, Russia
Vladimir Nikolaevich Kharkov
Tomsk National Research Medical Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Scientific Research Institute of Medical Genetics
Email: vladimir.kharkov@medgenetics.ru
Tomsk, Russia
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