Dialect separation of the Mansi languagein diachrony according to the basic vocabulary
Introduction: this paper deals with diachronic classification of Mansi dialect groups based on the new resources published on the linguistic platform LingvoDoc. The dialect groups identified using lexicostatistics are compared with the classification by phonetic isoglosses. The previous research on this data was focused on highlighting the phonetic isoglosses between the discovered dialects, and in this article the classification based on phonetics is compared with the results gained from lexicostatistics.Objective: to identify the dialect groups of the Mansi XVIII till XXI centuries based on the lists of basic vocabulary.Research materials: the new expedition and archive dictionaries of the Mansi dialects published on the linguistic platform http://lingvodoc.ispras.ru/ and field materials gathered by the author.Results and novelty of the research: for the first time the lists of basic vocabulary for seven archival and three contemporary Mansi dictionaries introduced into scientific circulation in the last few years. A survey of a native speaker of the modern Northern dialect was also conducted. Judging by the comparison with the XIX century data, the most distinctivedialect group is the North Mansi, as it has retained many features since the XVIII century. Other dialect groups have been not so stable in time. In the late XVIII century there were dialects of Perm province, not homogenous enough as a group. And out of them the Kungur and Solikamsk dialects were closer to the Tavda (Southern) dialect that is known from the XIX-XX centuries records. The Eastern dialects disappeared in the beginning of the XXI century. Judging by the data obtained from the last native speakers, the Yukonda (Eastern) dialect shared 93% of basic vocabulary with the Northern dialects.