LINGUIST List 10.958

Fri Jun 18 1999

Books: Turkic Languages

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LINCOM EUROPA, Turkic languages: Karachay

Message 1: Turkic languages: Karachay

Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 11:14:49 +0200
From: LINCOM EUROPA <LINCOM.EUROPAt-online.de>
Subject: Turkic languages: Karachay

KARACHAY Steve Seegmiller, Montclair State University

Karachay-Balkar is a Turkic language spoken in the North Caucasus by approximately 200,000 speakers and by approximately 30,000 more speakers living in Turkey, Western Europe, and the United States. This work provides a linguistic overview of the Karachay dialect of Karachay-Balkar. It consists of a detailed description of the phonological system and the inflectional morphology as well as a necessarily briefer description of the main syntactic features of the language. Also included are several short texts with interlinear translations and a glossary. This is the first description of Karachay to appear in English.

ISBN 3 89586 021 2. Languages of the World/Materials 109. 60 pp. USD 31.75 / DM 49.30 / \163 18.65. 2nd printing 1999.

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Message 2: Turkic languages: Xakas

Date: Thu, 17 Jun 1999 12:47:49 +0200
From: LINCOM EUROPA <LINCOM.EUROPAt-online.de>
Subject: Turkic languages: Xakas

XAKAS Gregory David Anderson, University of Chicago

Xakas is a Turkic language spoken by 70,000 people in south central Siberia. Xakas is a cover term created in the early 20th century to cover the related dialect clusters of the region; the termis positively viewed by some members of the ethnolinguistic group and negatively by others. Xakas is one of the only Turkic languages to preserve nine short vowels. Morphologically, Xakas shows an unusually high number of affixally realized verbal categories, as well as a complicated AUX verb system. In the imperative Xakas has preserved a dual inclusive. Xakas has a very high number of cases for a Turkic language (9), a number more typical of central and eastern Siberian languages. Due to the centuries-long contact with speakers of Russian, Xakas not only has a large number of Russian loans but it also shows a great-degree of contact-induced restructuring, some examples of which have even found their way into the standardized literary language. The present study is an analysis of the standardized register of Xakas, and constitutes the first description of Xakas in English.

ISBN 3 89586 511 7. Languages of the World/ Materials 251. Ca. 100 pp. USD 44 / DM 62 / pound sterling 24.

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