Kyrgyz-Altay

Characteristics

  • Change of Old Turkic *d to /y/, e.g. Tuba-Kizhi ayak 'foot', Kyrgyz kuyruk 'tail'.
  • Complete rounding of of low vowel + */G/, e.g. Telet tuu 'mountain', Kyrgyz ooz 'mouth'
  • Rounding and/or loss of */G/ after high vowels, e.g. Telengit sārï'yellow', Salar ulli 'big', Tuba-Kizhi ayu, ayuv, ayuu 'bear'.

Notes

  • Tuba-Kizhi exhibits certain features that are transitional to the Northern Altay group.

Tree

Kyrgyz-Altay
  • References

    Baskakov, N. A. 1958. “La classification des dialectes de la langue Turque d’Altaï.” Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 8, no.1: 9-15.

    Tekin, Talat. 2005. “A New Classification of the Turkic languages.” In Makaleler III: Çağdaş Türk Dilleri, edited by Nurettin Demir and Emine Yılmaz, 405-420. Ankara: Grafiker.

    Kyrgyz-Altay
    Spoken in:Eastern Central Asia, Altai regions
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