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| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6779 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes  Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 9 of 12 02 December 2006 at 2:34am | IP Logged |
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I think a language "enclave" would be a language unrelated to its surrounding tongues, but related to languages elsewhere. For example, Romanian is an enclave of the Romance branch, and Hungarian an enclave of the family it shares with Finnish and Estonian.
An isolate, as Lady Skywalker notes, is unrelated to any other language, and is thus unavoidably surrounded by unrelated tongues. Basque is the typical example; Japanese is another one if you group it with its sister Okinawan. Edited by Captain Haddock on 02 December 2006 at 2:34am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| iieee Groupie United States dreaminginturkish.bl Joined 6598 days ago 78 posts - 80 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Turkish, German | Message 10 of 12 02 December 2006 at 12:53pm | IP Logged |
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Turkey is a language enclave, no?
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| Paul Tetraglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 7132 days ago 114 posts - 124 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, German Studies: Italian | Message 11 of 12 02 December 2006 at 4:08pm | IP Logged |
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I'm not really sure Andrea.
I found this map below on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Turkic_language_map3.PNG Edited by Paul on 02 December 2006 at 4:10pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| iieee Groupie United States dreaminginturkish.bl Joined 6598 days ago 78 posts - 80 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Turkish, German | Message 12 of 12 02 December 2006 at 4:59pm | IP Logged |
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I guess it's not because there is a little tiny sliver of Azerbaijan between Iran and Armenia which looks like it touches. Therefore Turkey shares a border with another country that has a Turkic language as an official language.
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