Ebook: Shira Yughur

London: Routledge. In The Mongolic languages (ed.) Juha Janhunen, 2003. — 265 - 285 p. (Routledge language family series 5)Information on Shira Yughur began to increase only with the Sino-Soviet expedition in the mid-1950s. The first major publication resulting from this work was a sketch of both Eastern and Western Yughur, written jointly by E. R. Tenishev and B. X. Todaeva (1966). Todaeva (1997) later published an other brief synopsis of Shira Yughur. Chinese scholars also worked on the language, but because of political circumstances they had to postpone their publications until the 1980s. Junast (198I ) then published a Shira Yughur grammar with vocabulary while Bulchulu (1984) prepared a more elaborate vocabulary with etymological indications. Bulchulu and Jalsan also published a volume of Shira Yughur texts and everyday phrases (1988) as well as a comparative grammar (1990). Little is known about the dialectal subdivision of Shira Yughur, butit is clear from the sources that there is some variety within the language, at least as far as phonetics is concerned. Bulchulu and Jalsan mention the Qinglong and Hongshiwo dialects and present a small list of undramatic phonetic differences, which mainly concern the vocalism.