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* It belongs to the Karluk branch of the Turkic language family, along with Uzbek, which is nearly mutually intelligible | * It belongs to the Karluk branch of the Turkic language family, along with Uzbek, which is nearly mutually intelligible | ||
* Some sources include [https://books.google.com/books?id=TdsOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA236] [https://books.google.com/books?id=XIG8ZDzuAHcC&dq=uyghur+vowel+harmony&pg=PA78] [https://books.google.com/books?id=VleM1pOXgdQC&q=Semyonov+chahars&pg=PA1026] | * Some sources include [https://books.google.com/books?id=TdsOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA236] [https://books.google.com/books?id=XIG8ZDzuAHcC&dq=uyghur+vowel+harmony&pg=PA78] [https://books.google.com/books?id=VleM1pOXgdQC&q=Semyonov+chahars&pg=PA1026] | ||
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| + | == Shor == | ||
| + | * Shor is a critically endangered Turkic language spoken by around 2800 people in the Mountain Shoriya region of Southwestern Siberia | ||
| + | * Not all ethnic Shors speak the language, partially due to the lack of writing and language education in schools | ||
| + | * The two dialects, Mrassu and Kondoma, are very different and actually belong to different branches of the Turkic language family | ||
| + | * The modern Shor alphabet uses a modified version of the Cyrillic alphabet | ||
| + | * Shor has many borrowed words from Mongolian and Russian | ||
| + | * Its ISO code is cjs | ||
| + | * The Kemerovo State University now teaches a Shor language class | ||
| + | * Some sources include [https://books.google.com/books?id=6YWAERgYmFgC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false] [https://commons.emich.edu/theses/838/] | ||
== Dolgan == | == Dolgan == | ||
Latest revision as of 02:15, 29 January 2025
Contents
Introduction
I'm really interested in working on languages in the Turkic family, and I'm planning on working with William and Visnuk. My preference for which language is:
- Uyghur
- Shor
- Dolgan
Uyghur
- Uyghur is a language spoken by the Uyghur minority group in the Xinjiang autonomous region of China
- Uyghur has around 8-12 million speakers
- It is an agglutinative language with no grammatical gender or definiteness, as well as features such as elision and vowel harmony
- It uses a modified Arabic alphabet, which is unique among Turkic languages
- Many Uyghur speakers also speak Chinese, or another minority language from the region such as Uzbek or Kazakh
- Uyghur has many loan words from Chinese, Arabic, Persian, Chagatai, Uzbek, Kazakh, and Russian
- Its ISO code is uig
- Uyghur has 3 main dialects, based on geographical region
- It belongs to the Karluk branch of the Turkic language family, along with Uzbek, which is nearly mutually intelligible
- Some sources include [1] [2] [3]
Shor
- Shor is a critically endangered Turkic language spoken by around 2800 people in the Mountain Shoriya region of Southwestern Siberia
- Not all ethnic Shors speak the language, partially due to the lack of writing and language education in schools
- The two dialects, Mrassu and Kondoma, are very different and actually belong to different branches of the Turkic language family
- The modern Shor alphabet uses a modified version of the Cyrillic alphabet
- Shor has many borrowed words from Mongolian and Russian
- Its ISO code is cjs
- The Kemerovo State University now teaches a Shor language class
- Some sources include [4] [5]
Dolgan
- Dolgan is a severely endangered Turkic language spoken in the Taymyr peninsula in Russia
- It uses the Cyrillic alphabet
- Dolgan has around 930 speakers
- Its ISO code is dlg
- One of the reasons why the number of speakers is decreasing is because of the poor linguistic integration among families with mixed marriages
- The language has 3 main dialects, and is also similar enough to Yakut to be mutually intelligible
- Noun categories are determined by number, possession, and case
- It has eight grammatical cases
- Many loan words come from Russian vocabulary
- Some sources include [6] [7],,
