Archaic graphical and phonetic features of first Orthodox monuments [of writing] in Shor (based on the data of the book "Indication of the Way into the Kingdom of Heaven...")
The article analyzed the glossed corpus and concordance of the book “Indication of the Way into the Kingdom of Heaven...” in the Shor language, which are publicly available on the LingvoDoc platform located at lingvodoc.ispras.ru. The analysis shows that the book was created in Mrass dialect of the Shor language. The corpus reveals previously unknown systematic differences between the book and the modern language: Shor voiceless consonants in the corpus vs. a voiced consonant in the modern language at the beginning of a word and the absence of synharmonic changes in the quality of narrow vowel of the second syllable after the first syllable in the book “Indication of the Way into the Kingdom of Heaven...”. The aim of our study was the analysis of the regularity of these phenomena, as well as the introduction of the materials of the early written Shor language, which is under the threat of extinction. As a result, it was found that in 59% of cases, in all phonetic positions, Proto-Turkic words starting with *d- are voiced, while there is not a single reliable case of voicing for words starting with *t-. The narrow vowel ы in the second syllable in stems with o in the first syllable never becomes rounded. We assume that the investigated book reflects the more archaic state of the Mrass Shor in terms of labial harmony. Note that in the Khakass language, which is closer to the Mrass Shor than the Kondom dialect, there is no vowel harmony in this position, see the audio dictionaries on the platform lingvodoc.ispras.ru.