On the phenomenon of the linguistic behaviour of shamans Tuvinians of Mongolia

During the expeditions in Mongolia for the collection of linguistic material the team observed an unusual verbal behaviour of the shamans-Tuvinians. In one case, a shaman, with a knowledge of several languages in an ordinary speech situation, during a shamanistic ritual spoke and led the talk only in a dialect. In another case, a shaman, who knows and uses only the Mongolian language in his everyday speech practice, during the rituals talked to come to his guests in a dialectal form of the Tuvinian language. The change of lan-guage codes during a ritual occurs in such a state of consciousness, when the shaman himself does not control the speech situation, i.e. his consciousness is independent of his will.

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