Äynu
| Äynu | ||
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Spoken in |
People's Republic of China | |
| speaker | 6,570 (2000) | |
| Linguistic classification |
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| Official status | ||
| Official language in | - | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639 -1 |
- |
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| ISO 639 -2 |
tut (other Altaic languages) |
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| ISO 639-3 | ||
Äynu or Ainu is a Turkic language that belongs to the Uyghur branch of this language group and is very closely related to Uyghur . The speakers are called Abdal by the Uyghurs .
distribution
Äynu is spoken by about 7,000 people in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China . Most speakers live in the administrative district of Kashgar , there especially in the districts of Yengisar , Shule and in some villages in the city of Kashgar and in the district of Yarkant ; more Äynu spokesman there in the district of Hotan in the circles Hotan , Lop and Karakax County .
status
The grammar of Aynu is very similar to that of Uighur, the lexicon has many Persian loan and foreign words . Some researchers consider Aynu to be a dialect of Uighur. The thesis that it is actually an Iranian language that was heavily influenced by Uighur is no longer supported today. The Chinese government considers the Äynu to be a Uighur nationality , so the Äynu do not have the status of an independent minority .
Äynu is spoken exclusively by adult men. You communicate with strangers and women in Uighur. In a sense, it is a secret language .
According to the system
Consonants
| labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plosives | p | b | t | d | k | G | q | |||||
| Affricata | ʧ | ʤ | ||||||||||
| Fricatives | v | s | z | ʃ | χ | ʁ | ɦ | |||||
| Nasals | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||
| Taps / flaps | r | |||||||||||
| Lateral | l | |||||||||||
| Approximants | j | |||||||||||
Vowels
| front | central | back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| unrounded | rounded | unrounded | rounded | unrounded | rounded | |
| closed | i | ʉ | u | |||
| almost closed | ||||||
| half closed | e | ɵ | O | |||
| medium | ||||||
| half open | ɛ | |||||
| almost open | ||||||
| open | a | |||||
See also
literature
- Otto Ladstätter, Andreas Tietze: The Abdal (Äynu) in Xinjiang . Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7001-2076-1 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Äynu in Ethnologue