ON SOME FEATURES OF СONSONANTISM IN THE NORTHERN DIALECTS OF THE UDMURT LANGUAGE
The article aims to study some phenomena of phonetic syntagmatics in the Northern dialects of the Udmurt language. Special attention is paid to peculiarities which characterize some Northern Udmurt dialects and/or have a limited distribution among the analyzed dialects. The study also considers distinctive features in the consonant systems, analyzes most typical sound changes and processes in the subdialects, and highlights voicing, palatalization, different types of assimilation processes in the consonant systems, sound elimination, affricatization, etc. The author also establishes territories where the dialectal modifications of the phonetic syntagmatics are widespread. Language phenomena of the Northern Udmurt dialects are compared with analogous phenomena of other Udmurt dialects. The obtained results demonstrate that the Middle Cheptsa dialect and the Lower Cheptsa dialect show greatest similarities in their consonant systems.