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RogueRook
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 Message 17 of 24
16 November 2006 at 6:49am | IP Logged 
Interesting link. Ideed I find Uzbek to be a very exciting language. After Turkish and Azeri it is the third largest in its family. It has strong Persian influence (also lost its vowel harmony] and when I listen to it it sounds like Turkish with a thick Persian accent - actually quite pleasant.
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iieee
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 Message 18 of 24
18 November 2006 at 1:29pm | IP Logged 
Azeri, Turkmen and Turkish are very similar (all Southern Turkic languages). Kazakh is a Western Turkic language while Uyghur and Uzbek are Northern, and all three of these have less of a degree of mutual intelligibility with Turkish.

When I was in Turkey I met someone who had just come out of three years with Peace Corps in Kazakhstan and he was having a very hard time communicating, to the point of not being able to order at a restaurant, even though he was supposedly fluent in Kazakh.

I think the language has been influenced quite a bit by Russian but knowing Turkish of course would be a gigantic stepping stone to learning Kazakh.

I myself originally became interested in learning Turkish because of my interest in learning Uyghur but after spending a lot of time in Turkey I find that my interests have shifted Westward. :) However I am still interested in learning Uyghur, Kazakh, and other Central Asian languages at some point.

-Andrea
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OCCASVS
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 Message 19 of 24
11 January 2007 at 4:22pm | IP Logged 
What have you learnt so far? :)
Kazakh is still a language I'd want to learn, but I'm getting a lot of informations about it, because there aren't many resources for it.
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linguanima
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 Message 20 of 24
14 January 2007 at 8:50am | IP Logged 
Is there anyone interested in Uyghur?

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Halbarad
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 Message 21 of 24
15 December 2010 at 10:07am | IP Logged 
Here is a new book in French which is very technical but so useful :

ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1292404018&sr=8-1">http://www.amazon.fr/ Initiation-au-Kazak-
Koksal/dp/2358150142/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=12924040 18&sr=8-1

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onkel_xiaoma
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 Message 24 of 24
16 August 2012 at 11:07am | IP Logged 
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415674287/


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