Ili turki
The ili turki (other names: urk, tuerke) is to you a spoken language in the valley of Ili in the Autonomous region of Xinjiang, in China, and probably with the Kazakhstan. Its speakers speak also Kazakh or the ouigour.
This language was discovered in 1956. According to their oral tradition, they would have come from the Vallée of Ferghana (in Ouzbékistan and with the Kyrgyzstan) 200 years ago. Notable influence of Kazakh and the ouigur; loans with Arabic, Persian, Chinese and Russian. Its existence is threatened, because its younger speakers use Kazakh and the ouigur, while marrying with other ethnicities.
Sources
- : Card-index “Ili Turki” on www.ethnologue.com
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