Siberian Turkic languages

Siberian Turkic
Northeastern Turkic
Geographic
distribution
Siberia
Linguistic classificationTurkic
Early form
Subdivisions
  • North
  • South
Language codes
Glottolognort2688  (North)
sout2693  (South)
west2402  (West Yugur)
  Yakut   Dolgan   Khakas   Chulym   Shor   Altai   Tuvan   Tofa   W. Yugur

The Siberian Turkic or Northeastern Common Turkic languages, are a sub-branch of the Turkic language family. The following table is based upon the classification scheme presented by Lars Johanson (1998).[1] All languages of the branch combined have approximately 670,000 native and second language speakers, with most widely spoken members being Yakut (c. 450,000 speakers), Tuvan (c. 130,000 speakers), Northern Altai (c. 57,000 speakers) and Khakas (c. 29,000 speakers). Despite their usual English name, two major Turkic languages spoken in Siberia, Siberian Tatar and Southern Altai, are not classified as Siberian Turkic, but are rather part of the Kipchak subgroup. Many of these languages have a Yeniseian substratum.[2][according to whom?]

  1. ^ Lars Johanson (1998) "The History of Turkic". In Lars Johanson & Éva Ágnes Csató (eds) The Turkic Languages. London, New York: Routledge, 81–125. Classification of Turkic languages at Turkiclanguages.com
  2. ^ Vajda, Edward J. (2001). Yeniseian peoples and languages: a history of Yeniseian studies with an annotated bibliography and a source guide. Richmond: Curzon. ISBN 978-0-7007-1290-8.

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