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| viedums Hexaglot Senior Member Thailand Joined 4664 days ago 327 posts - 528 votes  Speaks: Latvian, English*, German, Mandarin, Thai, French Studies: Vietnamese | Message 177 of 306 24 April 2012 at 7:10am | IP Logged | ||
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Bodo - but was it really written in Assamese script before Latin?
Name a language that is spoken on two large islands, although the dialects of one of the islands are now extinct. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5176 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 178 of 306 27 April 2012 at 9:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think Tausug somewhat fits the description.
Name a language that has a name of a colour in its NATIVE name. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| vonPeterhof Tetraglot Senior Member Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4770 days ago 715 posts - 1527 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Japanese, German Studies: Kazakh, Korean, Norwegian, Turkish | Message 179 of 306 27 April 2012 at 9:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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Karakalpak ("Qara" - black)
Name a Turkic language whose "dialects" actually belong to different primary branches of Turkic (according to Johanson's classification). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
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Kazakh!
THe dialect being Kyrgyz (some believe it may be not related immediately to Kazakh, but rather to Siberian Turkics) Name a language which has two varieties which are not directly related to each other. Western variety is Turkic and Eastern one is Mongolic. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| vonPeterhof Tetraglot Senior Member Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4770 days ago 715 posts - 1527 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Japanese, German Studies: Kazakh, Korean, Norwegian, Turkish | Message 181 of 306 29 April 2012 at 7:54pm | IP Logged | ||
Yugur
*Edit: According to Johanson himself Kyrgyz has pretty much been transformed into a Kipchak language from a Siberian Turkic one. Perhaps a better parallel is Gutnish, which used to be a separate branch of North Germanic, but by now has been transformed into an East Scandinavian variety (essentially a dialect of Swedish). Edited by vonPeterhof on 29 April 2012 at 8:04pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| clumsy Octoglot Senior Member Poland lang-8.com/6715Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5176 days ago 1116 posts - 1367 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese, Korean, French, Mandarin, Italian, Vietnamese Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swedish Studies: Danish, Dari, Kirundi | Message 182 of 306 02 May 2012 at 1:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well, it was a year ago when I got into Turkic languages, and I remember something about Kyrgyz having some features similar to Eastern Turkic langs, and so on, due to the vowel harmony (Similar to Mongolian).
Well if it's not the case, I don' t know da answer, but I can reveal the answer to my question, as it was cancelled: Yugur. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| vonPeterhof Tetraglot Senior Member Russian FederationRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4770 days ago 715 posts - 1527 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Japanese, German Studies: Kazakh, Korean, Norwegian, Turkish | Message 183 of 306 02 May 2012 at 1:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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I didn't cancel your question, I answered it! Look above the quote.
And actually, vowel harmony isn't exclusive to Eastern Turkic, it was one of the features of Proto-Turkic and it has survived to varying extents in most modern Turkic languages, (standard) Uzbek being the major exception. The one striking difference from Kazakh that I notice when I try to read Kyrgyz is that it has long vowels (kz "taw" vs kg "too"), and these, AFAIK, don't appear in most "Western" Turkic languages, but do appear in Yakut and Tuvan. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| aldous Diglot Groupie United States Joined 5240 days ago 73 posts - 174 votes Speaks: English*, French | Message 184 of 306 06 May 2012 at 1:46am | IP Logged | ||
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What's the next question?
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