DAGHESTAN SCIENTIFIC CENTRE OF RASSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE

INSTITUTE OF LANGUAGE, LITERATURE AND ARTS

P. T. MAGOMEDOVA

CHAMALI-RASSIAN DICTIONERY

Makhachkala 1999

Р.Т. MAGOMEDOVA. CHAMALI-RUSSIAN DICTIONARY. The dictionary contains 8000 most frequently used Chamali words, which is an oral language belonging to the Iberian-Caucasian, family. All Chamali words, both vocables and illustrations of usage, are given with accent marks. Nouns and and verbs are followed by their main grammar forms - forms of the genetive and plurals for nouns, past and future forms, imperatives and adverbial participles for verbs. To bettershow the full meaning of a word, vocables are supplied with exemplary instances (word-groups, phrases, idioms/ proverbs and sayings). A dialect form is also adduced if it differs from the appropriate form of the principal dialect. As a supplement a list of microtoponyms, a brief grammar survey and a Rassian-Chamali index of words are also given.

The dictionary is of great value for apecialists in the Caucasian and comparative linguistics, history of culture of the Caucasian peoples. The dictionary also pursues quite a practical obgect - it can help Chamali speakers to master Russian.