Ebook: Middle Chulym: The state of the art

Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz Verlag, Turkic Languages, 2010. 14, 113-126.This paper aims at making a critical analysis of the data presented in a recently published book (Li et al. 2008) on one of the two sub-dialects of the Middle Chulym dialect of the Chulym Turkic language, one of the highly endangered languages of Siberia. The main point of discussion is some data and occasional analytical issues in this book (phonology, morphology, vocabulary, etc.) in the context of those presented in other publications on the language, and compared with my own fieldwork carried out mostly with speakers in the community neighboring the one whose sub-dialect is described in the reviewed publication.