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| Ili Turki | |
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| İlı turkeşi И̇лı туркес̧и ي̇لي تۋركەسي | |
| Native to | Xinjiang,China;Kazakhstan |
| Ethnicity | Ili Turks |
Native speakers | 30 families (2007, China)[1] moribund in Kazakhstan |
Turkic
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| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | ili |
| Glottolog | ilit1241 |
| ELP | Ili Turki |
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Ili Turki is an endangered[2]Turkic language spoken primarily inChina, of theKarluk branch of Turkic. In 2007, it was reported that there were around 30 families using it in China. Speakers are shifting to Kazakh or Uyghur.
Ili Turki is spoken in China'sIli Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture along theIli River and its tributaries and inYining. There may be some speakers inKazakhstan. Ili Turki has no official status in either country.
Ili Turki appears to belong to theKarluk group of Turkic languages, although it exhibits a number of features that suggest aKipchaksubstratum.[3][4]
A comparison of Ili Turki's Karluk and Kipchak features is shown below:
| Kazakh (Kipchak) | Ili Turki | Uzbek (Karluk) | English | |
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| *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 ofgeminate consonants | seɡiz | sekkiz | sækkiz | eight |
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | ||||
| Plosive | voiceless | p | t | tʃ | k | q | |
| voiced | b | d | dʒ | ɡ | |||
| Fricative | voiceless | s | ʃ | χ | h | ||
| voiced | z | ʁ | |||||
| Tap | ɾ | ||||||
| Approximant | l | j | w | ||||
| Front | Central/Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| unrounded | rounded | ||
| Close | i | ɨ | ʉ |
| Mid | e | ɵ | |
| Open | æ | ɑ | |
| No. | Ili Turki |
|---|---|
| 1 | bir |
| 2 | ekki |
| 3 | ʉtʃ |
| 4 | tɵrt |
| 5 | beʃ |
| 6 | altə |
| 7 | jetti |
| 8 | sekkiz |
| 9 | tɵqqʉz |
| 10 | ɵn |
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