This article is devoted to the analysis of the specific features of the Itum-Kalin dialect of the Chechen language. The study used materials collected from speakers of this dialect, as well as data from the works of scientists who studied Chechen dialects. The main attention is paid to the characteristics of consonant clusters of the Itum-Kalin dialect, in particular, replacements are considered, such as the use of complexes “rk”, “rs”, “r?” instead of “xk”, “rc”, “r?” in the literary Chechen language, and also the replacement of the consonant complexes “st”, “?q”? with “s” and “?” in the Itum-Kala dialect. The study provides a detailed analysis of phonetic features associated with the processes of word formation of both nouns and verbs. In the present tense forms of verbs of the Itum-Kalin dialect, the initial vowels of infinitive stems, such as “i”, “?”, “ie”, “i?”, retain their form without changes. In this case, the affixal vowel “u” is reduced and replaced with “a”. In the literary version of the Chechen language, on the contrary, these vowels undergo a process of labialization under the influence of the following vowel “u”: the transformations look like this: i??, ???, ie?u?, i??u??. The article also discusses the processes of reduction of some consonants observed in the structure of individual verbs of the Itum-Kalin dialect. Particular attention is paid to cases where phonetic changes in this dialect contribute to the preservation of archaic elements, which is of key importance for the reconstruction of the historical stages of the development of the Chechen language.
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