Ili Turki language
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| Ili Turki | ||
|---|---|---|
| Spoken in: | China | |
| Region: | Xinjiang | |
| Total speakers: | 120 | |
| Language family: | Altaic Turkic Chagatay Ili Turki | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | tut | |
| ISO/FDIS 639-3: | ili | |
| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Ili Turki is a language spoken primarily in China. It belongs to the Turkic family of languages. There were approximately 120 speakers of this language as of 1982.
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[edit] Classification
Ili Turki appears to belong to the Chagatay group of Turkic languages, although it exhibits a number of features that suggest a Kypchak substratum.<ref>Zhào Xiāngrú and Reinhard F. Hahn (1989). "The Ili Turk People and Their Language". Central Asiatic Journal 33 (3/4): 261-285. </ref> <ref>Reinhard F. Hahn (1991). "An Annotated Sample of Ili Turki". Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiorum Hungaricae 45 (1): 31-53. </ref>
A comparison of Ili Turki's Chagatay and Kipchak features is shown below:
| Kazakh (Kipchak) | Ili Turki | Uzbek (Chagatay) | English | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| *G > w after low vowels | taw | taw | tɒɣ | mountain |
| Genitive assimilation | tyje+niŋ / et+tiŋ | tʉjæ+nin / et+tin | tʉjæ+niŋ / et+niŋ | of the camel / of the meat |
| *G > w > Ø after high vowels | sarɨ | sarɨq | sarɨq | yellow |
| Loss of geminate consonants | segiz | sekkiz | sækkiz | eight |
[edit] Geographic Distribution
Ili Turki is in China's Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture along the Ili River and its tributaries and in Yining. There may be some speakers in Kazakhstan. Ili Turki has no official status in either country.
[edit] Sounds
[edit] Consonants
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosives | p | b | t | d | ʧ | ʤ | k | g | q | |||
| Nasals | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||
| Fricatives | s | z | ʃ | χ | ʁ | h | ||||||
| Tap | ɾ | |||||||||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||||||||
| Lateral</br>approximants | l | |||||||||||
[edit] Vowels
| Front | Central | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Unrounded | Rounded | ||
| High | i | ɨ | ʉ |
| Mid | e | ɵ | |
| Low | æ | ɑ | |
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[edit] References
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| Turkic languages | |||
| West Turkic | |||
| Bolgar | Bolgar* | Chuvash | Hunnic* | Khazar* | ||
| Chagatay | Aini2| Chagatay* | Ili Turki | Lop | Uyghur | Uzbek | ||
| Kypchak | Baraba | Bashkir | Crimean Tatar1 | Cuman* | Karachay-Balkar | Karaim | Karakalpak | Kazakh | Kipchak* | Krymchak | Kumyk | Nogay | Tatar | Urum1 | ||
| Oghuz | Afshar | Azerbaijani | Crimean Tatar1 | Gagauz | Khorasani Turkish | Ottoman Turkish* | Pecheneg* | Qashqai | Salar | Turkish | Turkmen | Urum1 | ||
| East Turkic | |||
| Khalaj | Khalaj | ||
| Kyrgyz-Kypchak | Altay | Kyrgyz | ||
| Uyghur | Chulym | Dolgan | Fuyü Gïrgïs | Khakas | Northern Altay | Shor | Tofa | Tuvan | Western Yugur | Sakha / Yakut | ||
| Old Turkic* | |||
| Notes: 1 Listed in more than one group, 2 Mixed language, * Extinct | |||
