Combinations Of Consonants Research Articles

Computationally efficient handwritten Telugu text recognition

<p>Optical character recognition (OCR) for regional languages is difficult due to their complex orthographic structure, lack of dataset resources, a greater number of characters and similarity in structure between characters. Telugu is popular language in states of Andhra and Telangana. Telugu exhibits distinct separation between characters within a word, making a character-level dataset sufficient. With a smaller dataset, we can effectively recognize more words. However, challenges arise during the training of compound characters, which are combinations of vowels and consonants. These are considered as two or more characters based on associated vattus and dheerghams with the base character. To address this challenge, each compound character is encoded into a numerical value and used as input during training, with subsequent retrieval during recognition. The segmentation issue arises from overlapping characters caused by varying handwritten styles. For handling segmentation issues at the character level arising from handwritten styles, we have proposed an algorithm based on the language's features. To enhance word-level accuracy a dictionary-based model was devised. A neural network utilizing the inception module is employed for feature extraction at various scales, achieving word-level accuracy rates of 78% with fewer trainable parameters.</p>

Increased Initial Reading Through Picture Word Cards

The purpose of this research is to address the need for fun and student-centered education, which is essential in the 21st century. Active learners are crucial for enhancing student engagement and positively impacting their lives. The specific focus is on improving the initial reading skills of grade III students at SDN Caringin II, which have been observed to be low. The research utilizes Classroom Action Research (PTK) following the model developed by Kemmis and Taggart, implemented in two cycles with two actions each. Data collection involves observation and the use of a rubric to assess reading skills. The results demonstrate that the use of picture word cards effectively enhances students' initial reading abilities, with 83% of students meeting the criteria for initial reading proficiency across various indicators. These indicators encompass aspects such as letter recognition, vowel and consonant combinations, and reading comprehension of sentences and paragraphs. Consequently, the research recommends the incorporation of picture word cards as an alternative learning method to cultivate and strengthen students' initial reading skills.

The rise of gemination in Celtic

This study investigates systematically the emergence and establishment of geminate consonants as a phonological class in the Celtic branch of Indo-European. The approach of this study is comparative historical linguistics, drawing on diachronic structuralism combined with aspects of language contact studies and functional approaches to language usage. This study traces the development of geminates from Proto-Indo-European (fourth millennium B.C.), which did not allow geminate consonants, to the Common Celtic period (first millennium B.C.), when almost every consonant could occur as a singleton or as a geminate, and on to the earliest attested stages of the Insular Celtic languages (first millennium A.D.). Although they were prominent in the phonology of Proto- and Ancient Celtic (Gaulish, Celtiberian), ultimately geminates were gotten rid of as a phonological class in the individual Insular Celtic languages. This is probably due to the fact that the contrast between lenited and unlenited sounds took on a central role in Insular Celtic phonology, making gemination a phonetically redundant category. Most instances of geminate consonants in Celtic can be explained by regular sound change operating on inherited clusters of consonants. Each sound change will be discussed in a separate section in a rough chronological order. Effectively, gemination is largely a strategy to reduce the number of allowed consonant combinations. To a limited degree, gemination also had a morphological function, especially in the formation of personal names and in the creation of adjectival neologisms. However, there is a residue of words, especially nouns, in the Insular Celtic languages that defy any attempt at etymologising. They are prime suspects of having been borrowed from prehistoric, substratal languages.

Le statut mono ou bi-phonématique des prénasales en Ulund

Monophonematic or Biphonematic Status of Prenasals in Ulund
 The manɟaku group is a linguistic group that so far includes 15 dialects: ucuur, uɟool, utufan, ubok, ubuj, ujang, uciban-ukan, usiis, uteer, useerar, ulëkës, ubo- mat, uñoob-utam, uyu and ulund. The ulund language of the manɟaku group is taken as a sample in this inquiry. Its speakers call each other the Balund. The latter are thought to be originated in Guinea Bissau, and their main area of concentration is in pəlund, from which the name of the language's speakers is derived. The Balund began migrating from Guinea Bissau to Senegal in colonial times, due to the abuse they suffered in Portuguese lands. They settled in the southern part of Senegal, notably in the Ziguinchor and Kolda regions. It should be noted that despite their distinguisehd Islamization, the Balund remain very attached to their language and are close to their ancient cults and traditions.Our knowledge of Ulund speech is fragmentary, focusing on specific aspects of the language such as the study of nominal classes, the study of the pronominal system, the study of the verb, etc. We note that there are no in- depth studies of the phonetic system, hence the motivation for the study of ulund complex consonants in this article. Consonants are articulations produced with a total or partial obstruction at any point in the vocal tract. Consonants are a highly heterogeneous set of sounds, both articulatory and acoustic. The type of constriction in the vocal tract distinguishes an occlusive consonant from a constrictive consonant. Occlusives are characterized by a silence resulting from the complete closure of the vocal tract (occlusion) at a well-defined point. The fricatives, among the constrictives, are characterized by aerodynamic frictional noises created by turbulent airflow at a point in the vocal tract, presenting a strong constriction at the place of articulation. The mi-nasals are combinations of oral consonants (occlusive or constrictive) + nasal consonants (consonant produced with the lowering of the soft palate).The question of the interpretation of prenasals in many languages, particularly African languages, has already been the subject of a multitude of analyses. This study, which is intended as a modest contribution, in no way claims to list all the specific features of the West Atlantic languages already studied. Our aim is rather to give an overview of what is already known in this field, focusing on the phonetic aspect, so that our young students, when describing a new language of the Niger Congo sub-group, are not obliged to invest a great deal of effort and time on questions which have already been dealt with and answered.

O filozofii formalnej Miguela Ángela Asturiasa

This paper analyses the linguistic structure, creative modes of expression and stylistic properties of Miguel Ángel Asturias’s Legends of Guatemala (Leyendas de Guatemala, 1930). Furthermore, it attempts to classify Asturias’s prose fiction, which is often multifaceted, by defining the unique character of its complex linguistic mechanisms that create his debut short-story collection. All texts in Legends contain references not only to events of the Mayan cosmogony, mythological tropes and motifs (that have been developed and put into a new context), but also to their mimetic relationship with the ritual language used in the Popol Vuh. The word order variations and certain combinations of vowels and consonants, as well as the specific syntactic parallelisms and enumerations (stylistic and lexical “props”) imitate formulaic phrases which are important elements in oral style. Pre-Columbian themes – especially those chosen by the Guatemalan writer for the narrative content of his works – are full of visual symbols with rich folk meanings; the melodic sound of Asturias’s narration (and its internal rhythm) seems attuned to the worldview belonging to both particular and universal human communities.

Variation of <i>k’</i> / <i>t’</i> as a Characteristic Feature of the German Mennonites Language in Siberia

The article is based on the material of one of the Germanic languages represented in Siberia, known in the world as Plautdietsch or the Low German language (dialect) of the Mennonites. One of the striking features of the Plautdietsch consonant system is considered – the variation of the k’/t’ sound types in certain positions in the word, primarily in combination with the vowels of the front row (k’int / t’int ‘child’, k’oak’ / t’oat’ ‘church’), as well as in some consonant combinations (for example, drin’k’ә / drin’t’ә to ‘drink’, ma:lk’ / ma:lt’ ‘milk’). The use of k’ or t’, respectively, was considered by some researchers to be the markers of two dialects within the Mennonite language: k’ – Chortiza and t’ – Molotscha. From a diachronic point of view, these sounds go back to the common German k; they appeared as a result of the so-called Frisian palatalization. Archival dialectological material confirms the use of these two sounds in the Mennonite colonies of southern Russia at the beginning of the last century.In the settlements of Siberia, where there are a large number of Plautdietsch speakers, according to our observations, the forms with t’ were used according to the Molochna type (t’oat’ ‘church’, t’int ‘child’, veat’ ‘week’).A new impetus to the exploration of this alternation was given by the material collected during the last linguistic expedition to the village of Apollonovka in the Omsk region, where a large isolated community of Plautdietsch speakers is located. In the speech of the inhabitants of this village, the use of t’ (Molochna type) prevails in all these positions, however, the forms on k’ used by some carriers were also recorded (so, you can hear ma:lk’ / ma:lt’ ‘milk’, k’in’a / t’in’a ‘children’ and so on). At the same time, both forms are recognized by the informants as correct.The assumption is made that these sound types cannot be regarded as consonants marking different dialects, but rather as optional variants.A sound was also recorded that was not mentioned in the studies earlier (s’t’), which appears in preposition to sonorants, especially before -l: k’lɔid / t’lɔid / s’t’lɔid ‘dress’. The consonant under consideration can be tentatively designated as a soft medial-occlusive spirant. Most likely, its appearance represents the third stage of mitigation in the considered alternation according to the scheme k > k’ > t’ > s’t’.The observations presented in the article, based on the analysis of actual field material, can be the beginning of further study of the variability of the Mennonite language in Siberia.

Literature Review On English Consonant Pronunciation Problems Encountered By Indonesian Students

Because the ultimate goal of English instruction is for students to be able to communicate successfully in English, it is critical for EFL students to have a clear and comprehensible pronunciation of the language. As a result, English students must place a higher focus on their ability to accurately enunciate words. Learning good pronunciation is one of the most important things one can do to improve one's communication skills. However, many English as a foreign language students find it difficult to polish their pronunciation. Outside of Indonesia, students in Indonesia are required to study English as their first language. Students study English at school solely for the purpose of communication. As a result, they are unable to correctly enunciate any English word, despite the fact that they are expected to utilize English fluently outside of the classroom. The objective of this essay is to analyze the obstacles and reasons that Indonesian students have when attempting to accurately pronounce English consonants by analyzing past research. Following an examination of the study, it was discovered that Indonesian students had similar difficulty and inaccuracies in pronouncing English consonants. The first reason is because some consonants in English do not exist in Indo-European or their native language. This is due to the fact that English consonants were taken from other languages. The second issue is that most Indo-European students have difficulty pronouncing stop consonants such as / v / θ / ð / ʃ / ʒ / tʃ / and / dʒ /. These are the vowels and consonants that come at the end of words. The difficulties distinguishing between voiced (consonants with vibration) and voiceless (consonants without vibration) consonants, the inconsistent sounds for vowel letters in English and Bahasa Indonesia, vowel-letter combinations, silent letters, a lack of knowledge of English fricative sounds, a preference for speaking their mother tongue rather than English, a lack of experience correctly pronouncing things, and the sounds of two or three combinations of consonants.

English

Wireless communication has become increasingly popular in recent years due to its mobility, portability and efficient service. Quality Voice Communication is the basic need of all such devices. Due to the significant spectrum demand, the bandwidth allocated to Professional Radio devices is decreasing. This results in lowering voice/ speech quality. Due to limited bandwidth, the design of Radio is changing. The main change is shifting from Analogue signal processing to Digital signal processing of speech and radio signals. The conversion of analogue-natured speech to digital form itself creates loss and faithfulness. Such Radio includes a voice coder for analogue to digital conversion of speech. Human spoken language, speaker (male or female), and pronunciation play an essential role in direct voice and Radio communication. It is the primary object which decides the design of low bandwidth coder. This paper deals with Marathi language characteristics and the interdependence of language constructs that affects voice/speech quality. In this paper, we extracted features of the Marathi language using PRAAT software and analyzed its constructs using statistical tools. The actual testing on Radio is carried out. The speech quality observed during such testing is correlated with statistical results. It is shown that the standard deviation in pitch and formants in male speech is less (average 35%) compared to the standard deviation in pitch and formants in female speech. This results in lowering the quality of male speech compared to female speech. It is also shown that some vowels and combinations of certain vowels and consonants produce poor speech quality compared to others.

Average or unique – Polish place-names and word-initial consonant groups

AbstractPlace-names occupy a special area in the vocabulary of the Polish language. Their shape occasionally differs to a greater or lesser extent from that of words which constitute the bulk of the lexicon. They have been investigated in terms of semantics and etymology by various linguists, but their phonological analysis is only occasionally provided. In this paper, word-initial consonant combinations found in Polish place-names are presented and analysed from the viewpoint of Government Phonology in its most recent version called Complexity Scales and Licensing. The analysis, covering bi-consonantal, tri-consonantal and tetra-consonantal clusters, will be conducted with a view to finding out how the model shows the possible governing relationships between consonants. Of specific interest is the question of whether these toponyms are totally peculiar or just normal in terms of the phonotactics of the Polish language.

The rise of gemination in Celtic.

This study investigates systematically the emergence and establishment of geminate conson-ants as a phono-logical class in the Celtic branch of Indo-European. The approach of this study is comparative historical linguistics, drawing on diachronic structuralism combined with aspects of language contact studies and functional approaches to language usage. This study traces the development of geminates from Proto-Indo-European (fourth millennium b.c.), which did not allow geminate consonants, to the Common Celtic period (first millennium b.c.), when almost every consonant could occur as a singleton or as a geminate, and on to the earliest attested stages of the Insular Celtic languages (1 st millennium a.d.). Although they were prominent in the phonology of Proto- and Ancient Celtic (Gaulish, Celtiberian), ultimately geminates were gotten rid of as a phonological class in the individual Insular Celtic languages. This is probably due to the fact that the contrast between lenited and unlenited sounds took on a central role in Insular Celtic phonology, making gemination a redundant category. Most instances of geminate consonants in Celtic can be explained by regular sound change operating on inherited clusters of consonants. Each sound change will be discussed in a separate section in a rough chronological order. Effectively, gemination is largely a strategy to reduce the number of allowed consonant combinations. To a limited degree, gemination also had a morphological function, especially in the formation of personal names and in the creation of adjectival neologisms. However, there is a residue of words, especially nouns, in the Insular Celtic languages that defy any attempt at etymologising. They are prime suspects of having been borrowed from prehistoric, substratal languages.

Using Russian proverbs to improve pronunciation skills for Russian-majored students

In the process of learning the Russian language as a foreign language, Russian-majored students at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Viet Nam National University Ho Chi Minh City are found to have problems in the Russian pronunciation. These problems are mainly related to the pronunciation of difficult sounds, tail consonants, consonant combinations, word stress, and intonation stress of sentences. In this study, the author identifies the common Russian pronunciation errors of Russian- majored students and offers the solutions to use Russian proverbs in the form of phonetic exercises to overcome the above-mentioned pronunciation errors. The Russian proverbs with phonetic rhetoric, including alliteration, rhythm, resonance, etc., not only help improve pronunciation, but also contribute to expanding students' knowledge about Russian culture and people. In this article, the author has provided more than 50 Russian proverbs classified by their purpose of use and equivalent Vietnamese proverbs in terms of meaning or context of use. This is also a valuable reference source for research in the field of comparative linguistics. The research methods used in this article consist of the theoretical document research method on the Russian and Vietnamese phonetics; the descriptive and comparative methods to clarify the negative movement trends of Vietnamese people when learning the Russian phonetics; the methods of testing, observation and analysis to identify the common pronunciation errors of Russian-majored students; and the methods of search, comparison, and illustration to provide linguistic resources and techniques for using Russian proverbs to improve learners' Russian pronunciation.

An Efficient Deep Learning Model with Interrelated Tagging Prototype with Segmentation for Telugu Optical Character Recognition

More than 66 million people in India speak Telugu, a language that dates back thousands of years and is widely spoken in South India. There has not been much progress reported on the advancement of Telugu text Optical Character Recognition (OCR) systems. Telugu characters can be composed of many symbols joined together. OCR is the process of turning a document image into a text-editable one that may be used in other applications. It saves a great deal of time and effort by not having to start from scratch each time. There are hundreds of thousands of different combinations of modifiers and consonants when writing compound letters. Symbols joined to one another form a compound character. Since there are so many output classes in Telugu, there’s a lot of interclass variation. Additionally, there are not any Telugu OCR systems that take use of recent breakthroughs in deep learning, which prompted us to create our own. When used in conjunction with a word processor, an OCR system has a significant impact on real-world applications. In a Telugu OCR system, we offer two ways to improve symbol or glyph segmentation. When it comes to Telugu OCR, the ability to recognise that Telugu text is crucial. In a picture, connected components are collections of identical pixels that are connected to one another by either 4- or 8-pixel connectivity. These connected components are known as glyphs in Telugu. In the proposed research, an efficient deep learning model with Interrelated Tagging Prototype with Segmentation for Telugu Text Recognition (ITP-STTR) is introduced. The proposed model is compared with the existing model and the results exhibit that the proposed model’s performance in text recognition is high.

Review Essay: The Sicilian World of Gaetano Cipolla

Review Essay: The Sicilian World of Gaetano Cipolla

Recognition of Kannada characters using deep learning approach

Recognition of Kannada Characters is a complex task as the number of classes in Kannada language by considering all combinations of vowels and consonants is 623,893. In this paper, the complexity is reduced from 623,893 to just having 313 classes as Main aksharas (Vowel, Consonants,Vowel modifiers and Consonant modifiers) and 30 classes as vattu aksharas(conjuncts) by using two line segmentation. A novel CNN model for recognition of printed and handwritten Kannada characters is proposed. CNN model with two, three and four layers are designed for Main akshara and Vattu aksharas with different filter size. The database consists of total of 31,300 samples and 3000 samples of printed and handwritten characters of Main akshara and Vattu aksharas respectively. Simulation result revealed that CNN model with four layer architecture is the best model for recognition of Kannada characters. This model achieved a recognition accuracy of 98.83% and 99.29% for printed Main akshara and Vattu aksharas and 82.50% and 80.92% for handwritten main and vattu akshara respectively.

KEINDAHAN BUNYI AL-QUR’AN

This study presents an analysis of the application of phonological studies to the beauty of the sound contained in surah al-Fatihah. The focus of this research is on the beauty, harmonization, and musicalization of the Qur'an surah al-Fatihah. Surah al-Fatihah was chosen because it has a unique and interesting language style to be discussed from a phonological perspective. This study uses the theory of phonology, rhythmic and musicality of the Qur'an, as well as the theory of the beauty of sound. This study aims to identify the beauty of the sound of the Qur'an surah al-Fatihah and find out how the process of its formation. The results of this study are the beauty of the sound of Surah al-Fatihah in the form of a combination of vowels and consonants, long and short vowels, consonants, final sound harmony, and the structure of word choice. With the harmonization in the form of harmony of long and short vowel patterns, consonants, punctuation marks, proximity of makhraj, and also the suitability of the pattern of the sound of verse one with the verse will be the reason how the beauty of the sound is formed. The sound of the Qur'an can be said to be beautiful because it is expressed properly and correctly in accordance with the rules of how to read the Qur'an.

АКТУАЛЬНІСТЬ ФОРМУВАННЯ НАВИКІВ ЗМІСТОВНОГО ЧИТАННЯ ТЕКСТІВ ЗА ФАХОМ У НЕМОВНОМУ ВНЗ

The paper deals with the study of the features of forming the skills of meaningful reading of professional-oriented texts in a non-linguistic university. Within the framework of the study, the essence of the reading process, linguistic difficulties in reading professional-oriented texts in a non-linguistic university are considered, and the main methods of overcoming linguistic difficulties in reading professional-oriented texts in a non-linguistic university are described. The purpose of the work is to determine the ways and methods of forming the skills of meaningful reading of professional-oriented texts in a non-linguistic university. The purpose of the work caused the presence of the following tasks as: to consider the essence of the reading process, linguistic difficulties in reading professional-oriented texts in a non-linguistic university, to describe the main methods of overcoming linguistic difficulties in reading professional-oriented texts in a non-linguistic university. It is established that reading is one of the receptive types of speech activity aimed at the perception and understanding of the written text. As part of the study, the following types of reading were identified: learning reading, thorough reading, introductory reading, and home reading. The analysis allowed us to identify three main groups of difficulties that students have while reading:1. graphic difficulties. 2. Spelling difficulties such as: difficulties in reading vowels; difficulties in reading vowel combinations; difficulties in reading vowels after some consonants; difficulties in reading some vowels before consonants or consonant combinations; difficulties in reading vowel combinations before consonant combinations; difficulties in reading some consonants whose reading is determined by their position among other letters; difficulties in reading combinations of consonants that are the part of different letter combinations; difficulties in reading words with “dumb” consonant combinations, difficulties in reading words that are spelled differently but are read the same; difficulties in reading the letters qq and rr; difficulties in reading words that are exceptions to the rule. 3.Lexical difficulties – difficulties in perceiving the technical terminology of professional texts.

Arbitrary Font Generation by Encoder Learning of Disentangled Features.

Making a new font requires graphical designs for all base characters, and this designing process consumes lots of time and human resources. Especially for languages including a large number of combinations of consonants and vowels, it is a heavy burden to design all such combinations independently. Automatic font generation methods have been proposed to reduce this labor-intensive design problem. Most of the methods are GAN-based approaches, and they are limited to generate the trained fonts. In some previous methods, they used two encoders, one for content, the other for style, but their disentanglement of content and style is not sufficiently effective in generating arbitrary fonts. Arbitrary font generation is a challenging task because learning text and font design separately from given font images is very difficult, where the font images have both text content and font style in each image. In this paper, we propose a new automatic font generation method to solve this disentanglement problem. First, we use two stacked inputs, i.e., images with the same text but different font style as content input and images with the same font style but different text as style input. Second, we propose new consistency losses that force any combination of encoded features of the stacked inputs to have the same values. In our experiments, we proved that our method can extract consistent features of text contents and font styles by separating content and style encoders and this works well for generating unseen font design from a small number of reference font images that are human-designed. Comparing to the previous methods, the font designs generated with our method showed better quality both qualitatively and quantitatively than those with the previous methods for Korean, Chinese, and English characters. e.g., 17.84 lower FID in unseen font compared to other methods.

Indonesian Spelling Errors in the Description Text

The purpose of this study was to describe the form of spelling errors in the descriptive text of class VII A students of SMP Negeri 05 Bengkulu City. This study uses a qualitative research type with a descriptive approach. Based on the discussion of research data on the analysis kesalaha n spelling of Indonesian in the essay on pembelaja ran B ahasa Indonesian students of class VII A Junior High School 05 Bengkulu city, the writer can give the conclusion that in general the students of class VII A SMPN 05 Kota Bengkulu have not mastered the use of letters, word writing, the use of punctuation in writing essays. Classically, students have not been able to understand the general use of Indonesian spelling (PUEBI)in writing an essay. Because students still have difficulty in understanding the use of Indonesian spelling. The results of the study concluded that letter errors, writing errors, punctuation errors, from the data that the authors found there were errors in the use of capital letters and italics, words with affixes, errors in writing abbreviations and acronyms, periods, commas, colons, hyphens. , dash. As for errors in the use of letters of the alphabet, vowels, consonants, diphthongs, combinations of consonants and bold letters, basic words, repeated forms, word combinations, word decapitation, particles, numbers and numbers, pronouns, articles, slashes, question marks, exclamation marks, ellipsis marks, quotation marks, single quotation marks, brackets, square marks, and abbreviations were not found errors from the research data.

CONSONANTAL SYSTEM OF SHERPA

The present study “Consonantal system of Sherpa” discusses the Sherpas of Sikkim mainly settled in South and West District. According to the Census of India 2001, the total speaker of Sherpa in Sikkim is 13,922. However, Denzong Sherpa Association claims that the population of Sherpa is more than 65,000 out of which more than 32,000 people speak their Mother Tongue in their native environment particularly in the home domain. Linguistically, Robert Shafer has divided Tibeto-Burman into four main groups: Bodic, Baric, Burmic and Karenic. According to Shafer, Sherpa belongs to the Central Unit of the Bodish Section within the Bodic Sub-division of Sino-Tibetan. The present paper attempts to describe the Consonantal system of Sherpa. Sherpa has twenty six (26) consonantal sounds. It has fourteen stops i.e., /p, pʰ, b, t, tʰ, d, ʈ, ʈʰ, ɖ, c, cʰ, k, kʰ, ɡ/, four nasals /m, n, ɲ, ŋ/, four fricatives /s, ʃ, ʒ, h/ one lateral /l/one trill /r/ and two semi-vowels; bilabial semi-vowel /w/ and palatal semi-vowel /j/. Consonant combination in Sherpa can be classified into two categories these are: (i) consonant cluster (ii) consonant sequence. Sherpa has initial and medial consonant clusters that occur within the syllabic boundary. Sherpa has a wide variety of consonant sequences. Gemination, Homorganic and Contagious are the Consonant sequences found in Sherpa Language.

Немецкие диалекты Алтая: к данным последней экспедиции

The paper presents the results of a linguistic expedition to the settlements of the German National Region in Altai. The German language dialectal forms identified can be attributed to the Low German and High German language areas. High German forms are of a mixed nature, including the dialects of both the Middle and South German types. Despite sharing common phonetic features, each of the Upper German dialects in Altai has its own set of features, with some features identified for the first time, for example, nasalization in the Kamyshi village dialect. All Middle German dialects are characterized by incomplete consonant movement and grammatical features. South German dialects also have some peculiarities: full movement of consonants, “hissing” consonant combinations, pronoun mer (we). The High German dialects of the Altai show the features of the original mother dialects and new features acquired due to mixing and leveling processes. A conclusion is made about the impossibility of identifying the dialectal forms precisely. The Low German language substratum is found to be represented by the dialects of the Mennonite Germans. The analysis of the linguistic features has found the speech of the Mennonite Plautdietsch speakers in Altai to be significantly similar to the speech of the Low German Mennonite dialect speakers of the Novosibirsk region. Also, some sociolinguistic components identified during a survey of speakers of different German language dialects were analyzed: self-identification, linguistic competence, attitude towards native dialect.