RogueRook Diglot Senior Member Germany N/A Joined 6824 days ago 174 posts - 177 votes 6 sounds Speaks: German*, English Studies: Hungarian, Turkish
| 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 Groupie United States dreaminginturkish.bl Joined 6579 days ago 78 posts - 80 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Turkish, German
| 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 Tetraglot Senior Member Poland Joined 6635 days ago 134 posts - 140 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Italian*, English, French, Polish
| 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 Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Australia Joined 6710 days ago 114 posts - 123 votes 3 sounds Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, Spanish, French Studies: Italian, Latin, German
| Message 20 of 24 14 January 2007 at 8:50am | IP Logged |
Is there anyone interested in Uyghur?
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Halbarad Triglot Newbie France Joined 5657 days ago 8 posts - 9 votes Speaks: French*, English, German Studies: Arabic (classical), Kazakh
| 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 Diglot Newbie Germany Joined 4476 days ago 38 posts - 44 votes Speaks: German*, Mandarin Studies: Tatar, Turkish
| Message 24 of 24 16 August 2012 at 11:07am | IP Logged |
http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415674287/
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