Ili Turki

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Ili Turki

Spoken in

China ( Xinjiang ), Kazakhstan
speaker 120 in China, 20 in Kazakhstan (1880 RF Hahn)
Linguistic
classification
  • Altaic
    Turkish
    Uighur
    Eastern Uighur
    Uighur (dialect: Ili Türki)
Language codes
ISO 639 -1

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ISO 639 -2

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ISO 639-3

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The Ili District in China

Ili Turki (or Ili-Uighur ) is a dialect of Uighur ("Eastern Turki") spoken in Xinjiang and Kazakhstan . Uighur belongs to the Uighur / Southeast Turkish branch of the Turkic languages . With 140 native speakers (mostly adults), Ili-Uighur is a dialect that is threatened with extinction . An old language variant is also the Sahjalmi. The language area is mainly located in the Kazakh Autonomous District of Ili and in northeastern Kazakhstan.

literature

  • Zhào Xiāngrú, Reinhard F. Hahn: The Ili Turk People and Their Language . In: Central Asiatic Journal , 33 (3/4), 1889, pp. 261-285.
  • Reinhard F. Hahn: An Annotated Sample of Ili Turki . In: Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiorum Hungaricae , 45 (1), 1891, pp. 31-53.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lars Johanson: Discoveries on the Turkic Linguistic Map . (PDF; 305 kB), section Eastern Turki dialects , p. 19