Ili Turki is a Turkic language spoken primarily in China . There were approximately 120 speakers of this language in 1982.
Classification
Ili Turki appears to belong to the Chagatay group of Turkic languages, although it exhibits a number of features that suggest a Kipchak substratum .[3] [4]
A comparison of Ili Turki's Chagatay and Kipchak features is shown below:
Kipchak & Chagatay features in Ili Turki
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
seɡiz
sekkiz
sækkiz
eight
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.
Sounds
Consonants
Vowels
See also
References
^ Ili Turki at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015)
^ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Ili Turki" . Glottolog . Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
^ Zhào Xiāngrú and Reinhard F. Hahn (1989). "The Ili Turk People and Their Language". Central Asiatic Journal 33 (3/4): 261–285.
^ Reinhard F. Hahn (1991). "An Annotated Sample of Ili Turki". Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiorum Hungaricae 45 (1): 31–53.
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Official
Regional
Indigenous
Minority
Varieties of Chinese
Creole
Sign
GX = Guangxi
HK = Hong Kong
MC = Macau
NM = Inner Mongolia
XJ = Xinjiang
XZ = Tibet