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ili turki language

The IliTurkiLanguage is an EasternTurkicLanguage of China. SIL code: ILI. ISO 639-2: tut. Population: 120 approximately, or at least 30 households in China (1980 R.F. Hahn). Population total both countries: 120 or more. Region: Ili Valley near Kuldja, Xinjiang. Probably some in Kazakhstan. Alternate names: T'URK, TUERKE. Comments: Reported to be a link between Chagatai and Kypchak (Uzbek dialect). Bilingualism in Kazakh, Uyghur. Spoken by older people. Younger people are intermarrying with neighboring groups. Ethnically and linguistically distinct, discovered in 1956. Their oral history says they came from the Ferghana Valley (Uzbekistan/Kyrgyzstan) about 200 years ago. SOV, vowel harmony, influenced greatly by Kazakh and Uyghur, has Arabic, Persian, Chinese, and Russian loans. Also spoken in: Kazakhstan. (Language name: ILI TURKI.) Alternate names: T'URK, TUERKE. Comments: The language is linguistically distinct, a link between Chagatai and Kypchak (Uzbek dialect). Their oral history says their ancestors came from the Ferghana Valley (Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan) about 200 years ago. Speakers are older. Younger people understand Ili Turki, but are adopting Kazakh or Uyghur, and intermarrying with neighboring groups.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)

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Instances	altaic language	An AltaicLanguage is any one of 65 languages forming a major family of languages.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
	content bearing physical	Any Object or Process that expresses content. This covers Objects that contain a Proposition, such as a book, as well as ManualSignLanguage, which may similarly contain a Proposition.
	eastern turkic language	An EasternTurkicLanguage is any of seven TurkicLanguages of China and other parts of Asia.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
	entity	The universal class of individuals. This is the root node of the ontology.
	human language	The subclass of Languages used by Humans.
	language	A system of signs for expressing thought. The system can be either natural or artificial, i.e. something that emerges gradually as a cultural artifact or something that is intentionally created by a person or group of people.
	linguistic expression	This is the subclass of ContentBearingPhysical which are language-related. Note that this Class encompasses both Language and the the elements of Languages, e.g. Words.
	physical	An entity that has a location in space-time. Note that locations are themselves understood to have a location in space-time.
	spoken human language	A SpokenHumanLanguage is a HumanLanguage which has as its medium the human voice. It can also be represented visually through writing, although not all SpokenHumanLanguages have a codified written form.
	turkic language	A TurkicLanguage is any one of 40 related AltaicLanguages.(extract from http://www.ethnologue.com/)
Belongs to Class	entity

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