TUVAN LANGUAGE IN THE MATERIALS OF V.V. RADLOV AND N.F. KATANOV
The article attempts to reveal phonetic and morphological features of the Tuvan language in the data of its first researchers - V.V.Radlov and N.F.Katanov - in comparison with the modern language and dialect materials and track the changes the language underwent. A number of phonetic and morphological phenomena and lexemes that can be tentatively divided into two groups have been determined. The fist group includes features which are characteristic of the modern dialects in the area of the researchers' route, the second group are the phenomena dating approximately to the earlier stage of the Tuvan language.