Words: Urum Basic Lexicon

Documentation project. — University of Bielefeld, 2011. — 107 pp."Our aim is to create a lexical inventory of Urum, a non-documented and not previously described language of the Minor Caucasus. For this purpose, we used a list of concepts to be elicited in the object language by means of translation. Our expectation from this list is to obtain a inventory of lexical items representing a broad range of fields of language communication. On the basis of this material we expect to estimate the consistency of the lexicon of this virtually unknown language and to identify the lexical input from the involved contact languages (i.e., Russian, Turkish, Georgian, and Greek) as well as the extend to which the object language is intelligible with the languages in its environment."