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tenevil wikipedia jump to content main menu main menu move to sidebar hide navigation main page contents current events random article about wikipedia contact us contribute help learn to edit community portal recent changes upload file special pages search search appearance donate create account log in personal tools donate create account log in contents move to sidebar hide top 1 life 2 writing system 3 academic study 4 legacy 5 see also 6 notes 7 references toggle references subsection 7 1 bibliography 8 further reading 9 external links toggle the table of contents tenevil 6 languages беларуская español bahasa indonesia nederlands русский українська edit links article talk english read edit view history tools tools move to sidebar hide actions read edit view history general what links here related changes upload file permanent link page information cite this page get shortened url switch to legacy parser print export download as pdf printable version in other projects wikidata item appearance move to sidebar hide from wikipedia the free encyclopedia chukchi orthographic pioneer this article needs more citations please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources unsourced material may be challenged and removed find sources tenevil news newspapers books scholar jstor may 2026 learn how and when to remove this message illustration depicting one of the tablets showing writing by tenevil with a corresponding key for some of the graphemes 1 a newspaper article of tenevil including a portrait of what he looked like in the top left corner tenevil russian теневиль c 1892 1937 1944 was a chukchi orthographic pioneer and reindeer herder he is best known for creating the tenevil script an independently formulated original script for the chukchi language life edit tenevil was born around 1892 2 3 johannes friedrich wrote that he was born near the settlement of kolyuchino in the russian imperial province of priamurye present day chukotka autonomous okrug 2 though this is likely a misunderstanding of tenevil s autobiography where he details he was born in ku u lyuchyn which is the chukchi name for ust belaya 4 both of tenevil s parents died while he was still young 4 2 he initially worked as an independent reindeer herder before losing his herd he then began herding reindeer for a man named vau it was during this time that tenevil met and married raulina vau s daughter with whom he had four children all born in the late 1920s 5 through this period the family often contended with a lack of food 5 in the early 1930s tenevil met a m mindalevich who was on an expedition from the arctic and antarctic research institute alongside russians setting up a collectivized farm 6 he was offered official employment on behalf of the soviet government becoming a senior foreman for reindeer herding at the ust belaya collectivized farm 7 6 according to zvi rudy and mikhail sergeev ru tenevil died in 1937 8 6 while i p lavrov reports that he had died the year before lavrov visited the region in 1945 9 writing system edit 72 of the graphemes created by tenevil around 1920 tenevil independently invented a writing system for the chukchi language 10 11 he greatly expanded his corpus from the early 1930s with the provision of writing materials from colleagues at the ust belaya collectivized farm 6 the nature of this script remains a topic of debate among scholars while early research described some of the graphemes as having a pictographic character 12 later research argues that the system is fundamentally logographic 13 though researchers agree that the system was non phonetic 14 researchers have noted the abstract character of the symbols 15 which may be indirect evidence that this writing system was entirely tenevil s invention citation needed tenevil also developed symbols for numerals using the base 20 counting system of the chukchi language tenevil created over 1 000 graphemes 13 what made tenevil s system unique compared to other pictographic systems that had been recorded from other siberian peoples is that the graphemes did not just correspond to numbers and nouns but also included verbs adverbs prepositions and conjunctions 16 a the graphemes for similar ideas used the same root structure such as herd and deer with special graphemes created for each person in tenevil s life 8 17 johannes friedrich noted that graphemes for words and ideas that were in common use by tenevil and the chukchi were more abstract whereas graphemes for less common words often for items from the russians retained a stronger pictographic nature 12 the writing system was used and known only within tenevil s family among his colleagues at ust belaya and his extended family 18 19 with the corpus from tenevil and his sons who also worked on the collectivized farm are the diary of work undertaken by tenevil at the farm records to be reported to soviet authorities messages exchanged between tenevil and his sons during shifts away at the reindeer pastures and an autobiography of tenevil s life 20 tenevil developed his script extensively writing his symbols on boards bones walrus tusks and candy wrappers 9 the majority of the tablets that were left by tenevil were read from left to right though examples also read from right to left the direction of the sentence was indicated by arrows 21 the sources and prototype of the tenevil writing system are unknown taking into consideration the isolation of chukotka from the regional centres of civilization it could be considered a localized creative initiative of a lone person it is possible the writing system is influenced by the decorations on shamans drums the word writing kelikel in the chukchi language has tungusic parallels 7 academic study edit the tablets containing tenevil s script were brought back to the arctic and antarctic research institute from an expedition led by a m mindalevich from 1931 to 1932 9 the writing system was then first described by the russian ethnographer and writer vladimir bogoraz in 1931 22 who deciphered multiple tablets of the graphemes with explanations 3 23 24 the decipherment and description in russia were then completed by bogoraz s student dolma tsibektarova a buryat woman who had studied chukchi and was studying linguistics 25 24 14 tablets are now housed at the arctic and antarctic research institute 3 21 in 1945 the artist and art historian i p lavrov visited the upper reaches of the anadyr river where tenevil had lived as part of an archaeological and ethnographic expedition 9 there he tracked down tenevil s wife raulina who had preserved a large archive of his work in the form of a box containing thousands of relics of tenevil s writing 26 lavrov is commonly credited with bringing tenevil s work to the attention of the wider linguistic community citation needed between the work of mindalevich bogoraz tsibektarova and lavrov vocabulary for 160 of tenevil s graphemes have been deciphered 24 tenevil s proposed writing system while innovative did not gain widespread acceptance 27 the lack of adoption can be attributed to local chukchi efforts to resist russification which encompassed both cultural and linguistic aspects citation needed consequently those among the chukchi community who were inclined towards adopting a writing system predominantly chose the cyrillic script over tenevil s system citation needed the emergence of the tenevil script is particularly remarkable given the rarity of isolate scripts tenevil s accomplishments provided insights to the field of linguistics shedding light on the possible origins and evolutionary paths of written languages citation needed moreover his script stands as the northernmost instance of a language crafting its own orthography making it a point of interest in linguistic studies citation needed legacy edit the chukchi writer yuri rytkheu dedicated his 1969 novel a dream in polar fog to tenevil 7 see also edit sequoyah uyaquq notes edit other pictographic systems had been recorded being used by the yukaghir nivkh and koryaks 16 references edit bogoraz 1934 p 10 1 2 3 friedrich 1938 pp 209 210 1 2 3 rudy 1966 p 126 1 2 davydova 2015 p 175 1 2 davydova 2015 p 176 1 2 3 4 davydova 2015 p 177 1 2 3 chukotskoye pis mo samaya severnaya pis mennost mira чукотское письмо самая северная письменность мира chukchi letters the northernmost written language in the world rbardalzo in russian archived from the original on 5 december 2023 1 2 rudy 1966 pp 125 126 1 2 3 4 davydova 2015 p 172 powell 1991 p 12 davydova 2015 p 171 1 2 friedrich 1938 p 213 1 2 davydova 2015 p 174 friedrich 1938 p 200 friedrich 1941 pp 411 412 rudy 1966 pp 125 126 gelb 1963 pp 209 210 friedrich 1938 p 211 1 2 davydova 2015 pp 173 174 friedrich 1938 pp 212 213 rudy 1966 p 125 gelb 1963 pp 209 210 davydova 2015 pp 175 176 178 1 2 friedrich 1938 p 212 diatchkova 2002 p 237 bogoraz 1934 pp 9 11 1 2 3 davydova 2015 p 173 friedrich 1938 pp 211 212 davydova 2015 pp 172 176 harbsmeier 1995 p 256 bibliography edit bogoraz vladimir 1934 luoravetlanskiy chukotskiy yazyk луораветланский чукотский язык luoravetlan chukchi language in alcor y p ed yazyki i pis mennost narodov severa языки и письменность народов севера languages and writing of the peoples of the north in russian vol iii pp 5 46 davydova elena 2015 pis mena tynevilya mikroistoricheskiy analiz odnogo izobreteniya письмена тыневиля микроисторический анализ одного изобретения1 tyneville s letters a microhistorical analysis of an invention pdf antropologičeskij forum in russian 26 171 206 archived from the original pdf on 4 april 2025 diatchkova galina 2002 the languages of indigenous peoples in chukotka and the media in burnaby barbara jane reyhner jon allan eds indigenous languages across the community northern arizona university pp 237 244 friedrich johannes 1938 zu einigen schrifterfindungen der neuesten zeit on some recent script inventions zeitschrift der deutschen morgenländischen gesellschaft in german 92 1 2 183 218 jstor 43379669 friedrich johannes 1941 noch eine moderne parallele zu den alten schrifterfindungen another modern parallel to the ancient writing inventions zeitschrift der deutschen morgenländischen gesellschaft in german 95 3 4 374 414 jstor 43371252 gelb ignace j 1963 a study of writing 2nd ed university of chicago press harbsmeier michael 1995 inventions of writing in gledhill john in javanese bender barbara larsen mogens trolle in russian eds state and society the emergence and development of social hierarchy and political centralization routledge pp 247 272 isbn 0 203 99003 x powell barry b 1991 homer and the origin of the greek alphabet cambridge university press isbn 978 0511552700 rudy zvi 1966 die piktographie mit besonderer berücksichtigung der völkerschaften sibiriens pictography with special consideration of the peoples of siberia anthropos 61 1 2 98 128 jstor 40458231 further reading edit dmitrieva t n shcherbakova t i 2014 zhivotnyye v chukotskikh svyazkakh semeynykh okhraniteley po materialam kollektsii i p lavrova животные в чукотских связках семейных охранителей по материалам коллекции и п лаврова animals in chukotka bundles of family guardians based on materials from the collection of i p lavrov in rodionov m a ed bestiariy iii zoomorfizmy v traditsionnom universume бестиарий iii зооморфизмы в традиционном универсуме bestiary iii zoomorphisms in the traditional universe pdf in russian pp 179 193 isbn 978 5 88431 271 5 archived from the original pdf on 12 november 2025 jensen h 1969 die schrift in vergangenheit und gegenwart writing in the past and present in german 3rd ed berlin veb deutscher verlag der wissenschaften external links edit imshawn getoffmylawn 10 october 2022 tenevil the reindeer herder who invented his own writing system via youtube retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title tenevil oldid 1372681329 categories chukchi people 1890s births 1937 deaths 1944 deaths creators of writing 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