| Turkic linguistic phylogeny | |
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| ren | Aug 21 2010, 08:59:03 AM Post #1 |
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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 http://i42.tinypic.com/2mglam8.jpg http://i39.tinypic.com/deqvww.jpg http://i44.tinypic.com/29yffcp.gif Edited by ren, May 17 2018, 06:36:58 PM.
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