ILI ISO 639-3
Ili Turki
A language of China
- ISO 639
- ili
- Alternate Names
- Ili Turk, T’urk, Taranchi, Tu’erke, Tuerke
- Population
- 120 in China (1980 R. Hahn), decreasing. The language of about 30 families (Salminen 2007). Total users in all countries: 240.
- Location:
- Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region: Ili Kazak autonomous prefecture, Gongliu, Nilka, Tekes, Xinyuan, Zhaosu, and other counties, Ili valley near Kuldja.
- Language Status
- 8a (Moribund). Language of recognized nationality: Uzbek.
- Classification
- Turkic, Eastern
- Dialects
- None known. Ili Turki is indistinguishable from the Central Uyghur [uig] variety spoken in the Ili (Ghulja) area (2015 A. Dwyer).
- Typology
- SOV; vowel harmony; influenced greatly by Kazakh and Uyghur; has Arabic, Persian, Chinese, and Russian loans.
- Language Use
- Older adults only. Shifted to Kazakh [kaz] (Salminen 2007). Shifted to Uyghur [uig] (Salminen 2007).
- Language Development
- Texts.
- Other Comments
- Ethnically and linguistically distinct, discovered in 1956. Their oral history says they came from the Ferghana Valley (Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan) about 200 years ago. Muslim.
Also Spoken in
- Location
- Scattered.
- Language Status
- 8a (Moribund)
- Other Comments
- Non-indigenous. May be none in Kazakhstan. View other languages of Kazakhstan
Language Name
Ili Turki
User Population
120 in Kazakhstan (2001 J. Leclerc).
Map
Location: Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region: Ili Kazak autonomous prefecture, Gongliu, Nilka, Tekes, Xinyuan, Zhaosu, and other counties, Ili valley near Kuldja.
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