Wiktionary:About Ingrian

Main category: Ingrian language

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Ingrian language

This page deals with the specific issues of Ingrian entries on Wiktionary.

Orthography edit

Wiktionary prioritises the orthography as portrayed by both V. Chernyavskij and O. Konkova. It is Latin-based and highly akin to the Finnish writing system. Some main characteristics:

⟨ä⟩ for /æ/
⟨c⟩ for /t͡ʃ/
⟨ö⟩ for /ø/
⟨ts⟩ for /t͡s/
⟨š⟩ for /ʃ/
⟨y⟩ for /y/
⟨ž⟩ for /ʒ/

All other attested orthographical variants ought to be tagged by {{alternative spelling of|izh|}} and given in the main entry under the header Alternative forms.

The grapheme ⟨ü⟩ (representing /y/) does not have recorded usage in Ingrian, but has been used throughout academic papers (see the discussion at the Request for Deletion). When a form containing this letter is found, one should proceed with caution, and make sure that this form is indeed in use with the speakers of the language.

Alternative forms and spellings should not contain etymological information unless specifically having to do with the written form. Other etymology should be added to the main entry.

Inflection edit

See also: Category:Ingrian headword-line templates and Category:Ingrian inflection-table templates

Ingrian has the following parts of speech:

are declined.

verbs

are conjugated.

are invariable.

determiners

can either be declined or be invariable, depending on the kind.

When provided, inflection ought to be signified by either the header Declension or Conjugation, depending on the type of lemma.

The numerous declension tables per inflection type, dialect and orthography can be found in Category:Ingrian inflection-table templates and its subcategories.

Ingrian adjectives should use {{izh-adj|}}, rather than the common {{head|izh|}} template. Furthermore, suffixes should use {{izh-suffix|}}.

Etymology edit

Ingrian is a Finnic language of the Northern Finnic subgroup. As such, a typical etymology section of an Ingrian entry would look as following:

{{dercat|izh|urj-pro|inh=1}}
From {{inh|izh|urj-fin-pro|}}. Cognates include {{cog|fi|}} and {{cog|et|}}.

For consideration about the differences between Proto-Uralic (urj-pro), Proto-Finno-Ugric (fiu-pro) and Proto-Finno-Permic (urj-fpr-pro) see Wiktionary:About Proto-Uralic#Subdivisions.

Ingrian vocabulary has largely been influenced by Russian and Swedish, as well as Finnish. It may not be clear from which language the term is borrowed. In this case, the etymology section could read the following:

Ultimately from {{der|izh|la|}}, possibly via {{cog|ru|}} or {{cog|sv|}}. Akin to {{cog|fi|}}.

However, the actual realisation of etymologies differs from editor to editor.

Pronunciation edit

The Ingrian phonology is very similar to that of its closest relatives, Finnish and Karelian. Some main characteristics:

Diphthongs should be transcribed using the non-syllabic diactritic (/ˈɑi̯kɑ/ instead of /ˈɑikɑ/).
⟨n⟩ preceding /k/ should be transcribed as /ŋ/ (/ˈhɑŋko/ instead of /ˈhɑnko/).
Short geminates should be transcribed with the halflong sound mark (ˑ), while long geminates should be transcribed with the long sound mark (ː).

Dialects edit

Ingrian has four dialects, of which two are most probably extinct:

Soikkola
Ala-Laukaa (Lower Luga)
Hevaha (†)
Ylä-Laukaa (Oredezhin) (†)

If a lemma is dialect-specific and it is known to which dialect it belongs, the lemma's definition ought to be preceded by the template {{lb|izh|}}, the second parameter being the name of the dialect.

Quotations edit

See also: Category:Ingrian quotation templates

In the 1930s, a few books have been published in Ingrian. These provide an older, standardised form of the languages, exhibiting such features as the exessive case and graphemes like ⟨ƶ⟩ and ⟨ç⟩. A few such books:

These books can be quoted to provide attestation for Ingrian terms. Since Ingrian is a language with limited documentation, one quote is sufficient to prove attestation. Moreover, these quotes can be used to give examples of usage in Ingrian.

Lemmatisation edit

See also: Appendix:Ingrian orthographic variants

On Wiktionary, Ingrian terms are lemmatised under V.I. Junus' 1936 standard language with the above described spelling differences. The spellings variants brought by V. Chernyavskij's standardisation are strictly forbidden on Wiktionary unless attested in another work.