| Ili Turki | |
| Nativename: | İlı turkeşi И̇лı туркес̧и ي̇لي تۋركەسي |
| States: | Xinjiang, China; Kazakhstan |
| Ethnicity: | Ili Turks |
| Speakers: | 30 families in China (2007); moribund in Kazakhstan |
| Ref: | e25 |
| Familycolor: | Altaic |
| Fam1: | Turkic |
| Fam2: | Common Turkic |
| Fam3: | Karluk |
| Iso3: | ili |
| Glotto: | ilit1241 |
| Glottorefname: | Ili Turki |
| Notice: | IPA |
Ili Turki is an endangered[1] Turkic language spoken primarily in China. In 2007, it was reported that there were around 30 families using it in China.
Ili Turki is spoken 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.
Ili Turki appears to belong to the Karluk group of Turkic languages, although it exhibits a number of features that suggest a Kipchak substratum.[2] [3]
A comparison of Ili Turki's Karluk and Kipchak features is shown below:
| pronounced as /taw/ | pronounced as /taw/ | pronounced as /tɒɣ/ | mountain | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Genitive assimilation | pronounced as /tyje+niŋ/ / pronounced as /et+tiŋ/ | pronounced as /tʉjæ+nin/ / pronounced as /et+tin/ | pronounced as /tʉjæ+niŋ/ / pronounced as /et+niŋ/ | of the camel / of the meat | |
| pronounced as /sarɨ/ | pronounced as /sarɨq/ | pronounced as /sarɨq/ | yellow | |
| Loss of geminate consonants | pronounced as /seɡiz/ | pronounced as /sekkiz/ | pronounced as /sækkiz/ | eight |
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| Plosive | voiceless | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| voiced | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||
| Fricative | voiceless | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||
| voiced | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||||||
| Tap | pronounced as /link/ | |||||||
| Approximant | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |||||
| Front | Central/Back | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| unrounded | rounded | |||
| Close | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | |
| Mid | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| Open | pronounced as /link/ | pronounced as /link/ | ||
| No. | Ili Turki | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | bir | |
| 2 | ekki | |
| 3 | ʉtʃ | |
| 4 | trt | |
| 5 | beʃ | |
| 6 | altə | |
| 7 | jetti | |
| 8 | sekkiz | |
| 9 | tɵqqʉz | |
| 10 | ɵn |