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Turkic linguistic phylogeny
Topic Started: Aug 21 2010, 08:59:03 AM (576 Views)
ren
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Due to largescale
population movements in the history of the Turkic peoples, the genealogical
classification of the individual languages is not straightforward, since areal influence
cuts across genealogical relationships. Thus, the currently accepted classification of
the Turkic languages comprises three branches that are defined through genealogical
relatedness as well as one branch that is defined mainly by the geographic proximity
of the languages involved; in addition, two further branches are represented by
individual languages (Chuvash and Khalaj). The three branches defined primarily on
genealogical grounds (Schönig 1997: 123; Johanson 1998b: 82f) are: southwestern
Oghuzic (with Anatolian Turkish, Azerbaijanian, Turkmen and Gagauz as the main
representatives), northwestern Kypchakic (including, amongst others, Kazakh,
Kirghiz, and Tatar), and southeastern Uighuric (Uzbek, Uyghur, and Yellow
Uyghur, to name a few). The Siberian Turkic languages (Altai-Sayan Turkic in the
south and Lena Turkic – Sakha and Dolgan – in the north) are genealogically
heterogenous and are grouped together mainly on geographical grounds. Chuvash
and the very archaic Khalaj are the sole representatives of the Oghuric and the
Arghu branch, respectively6 (Johanson 2001: 1720). Chuvash is the only living
descendant of the language of the Turkic Bolgars, a group that split off from the
remainder of Turkic peoples in the first half of the first millennium AD (Golden
1998: 18; Johanson 1998b: 81). Four languages, Sakha and Dolgan, Chuvash, and
Khalaj are very divergent, indicative of an early separation from the remainder of
the Turkic languages (Schönig 1997: 120).

http://www.lotpublications.nl/publish/articles/002575/bookpart.pdf

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Edited by ren, May 17 2018, 06:36:58 PM.
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