Hill Mari Orthoepy: Concept, Rules and the Importance for Future Teachers of the Hill Mari Language

 

Nadezhda M. Krasnova¹ and Galina A. Ertsikova^2*.

¹Assoc.Dr., Mari State University, Russian Federation, krasnovanadezhda5@yandex.ru

²Dr, Mari Research Institute after V.M. Vasilyev, Russian Federation, galina.ehrcikova@yandex.ru

*Corresponding Author

 

Abstract

The relevance of language education as a linguistic reality is due to the role that language, being an integral part of the national consciousness of the people, plays an important role in the processes of socialization of the individual. The presented article deals with orthoepy rules and laws in the Hill Mari language which belongs to Finno-Ugric language group. The authors defined three main laws in the Hill Mari orthoepy; they are conjunction, palatal harmony, morpheme boundary signal. Moreover, the main phonetic processes will be also described in the article because they play an important role in the language education of the future Hill Mari teachers. The purpose of this research is to describe the main laws of Hill Mari orthoepy which is essential in the Hill Mari language education in general. It seems that correct pronunciation of sounds and putting wrong stresses in words does not carry anything unusual, but in reality it is not correct assumption. Errors, deviations from orthoepy norms in school teachers’ speech distract the students, forcing them to concentrate on the incorrect pronunciation, and not on the meaning of the subject.

Keywords: Language Education, Hill Mari Orthoepy, Pronunciation, Norm.