REVISITING THE QUESTION ABOUT THE TIME OF PUBLICATION OF THE FIRST BOOKS IN THE UDMURT LANGUAGE

Abstract

In the XIX century, the printed literature which appeared in the Udmurt language was mainly translation. These publications are mainly religious in nature and published in various dialects of the Udmurt language (Glazov and Sarapul). However, the language of these monuments cannot be correlated with a specific territorial dialect, since the translators and compilers during their writing were not limited to reflecting any one dialect, but, as a rule, resulted in inter-dialect doublets. The appearance of voluminous texts - translations of sources of Christian education in various languages of the Ural-Volga region, including the Udmurt region - is primarily due to the desire of church leaders to extend their influence to the illiterate non-Russian population of the backwoods of Russia in order to familiarize them with their faith. Translations into the Udmurt language of the first half of the 19th century were few. Some of them, compiled on the territory of distribution of various dialects, were deposited in various archives, a small part was published in Kazan in 1847, like the ABC and the Gospel in the Glazov and Sarapul dialects of the Udmurt language. The article deals with the history of creation and the time of publication of the first books in the Udmurt language, since in some works there are unreliable and unreliable dates of their publication. Researchers note that in 1823 a translation into the Udmurt language of the Gospel of Matthew was published, and in 1828 - “The Beginnings of Christian Teaching”. The author made an attempt to find out on the basis of what data similar historiographic mystifications appeared, whether they are not the result of a simple mistake or an inattentive study of written monuments.