Social:Khoton language

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Short description: Extinct Turkic dialect
Khoton
Hoton
Native toInner Mongolia (China), Mongolia
EthnicityKhotons
Extinct19th century[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3None (mis)
Glottologkhot1252[2]

Khoton is an extinct dialect of the Uyghur language in the Karluk group of Turkic languages. Khotons use the Oirat dialect of Mongolic languages in daily life.[3]

Classification

Khoton is classified as Uyghur by various researchers (Boris Vladimirtsov (fr), Alexander Samoylovich, Nikolay Baskakov),[4] an Uzbek dialect by Ármin Vámbéry,[5] a Kyrgyz dialect by Grigory Potanin and Sergey Malov.[6]

Sample words[7][8]
English Khoton Turkish
horse атӑ (ată) atặ at
five беші̆ (bešĭ) beşi beş
foot бутў (butŭ) butu ayak
eye гӧзӓ̆ (gözä̆), козъ (koz) gözä göz
mouth о̄зӑ (ōză) o:zặ ağız
fire отӑ (otă) otặ ateş
od[1]
language тілі̆ (tilĭ) tili dil
three ӱчӱ (üčü) üçü üç

^ 1: Archaic usage.

Mixed nature

According to Nikolay Baskakov, Khoton language has q as in oçaq ('firepit') which has Old Uyghur characteristics, teey ('camel') which has Kyrgyz characteristics as in töö; оoz ('mouth') which has Southern Altai characteristics and q: qol (‘arm’) from Turkmen.

Bibliography

References

  1. Finke, Peter (1999). "The Kazaks of western Mongolia". in Svanberg, Ingvar. Contemporary Kazaks: Cultural and Social Perspectives. London: Curzon. pp. 109. ISBN 0-7007-1115-5. https://books.google.com/books?id=9wxIAwAAQBAJ&q=khoton+. 
  2. Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Khotan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/khot1252. 
  3. "Altai Oirat". https://www.oeaw.ac.at/vlach/collections/oiratkalmyk/altai-oirat. "The western provinces of Mongolia [...] are inhabited by [...] Khoton [...] All these groups [...] speak [...] the Oirat language." 
  4. Talat Tekin (in tr). TÜRK DİL VE DİYALEKTLERİNİN YENİ BİR TASNİFİ. pp. 152. https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/692977. Retrieved 18 December 2023. "Karluk-Harezm Alt Grubu: Eskilerden Karluk-Harezm (Ahmed Yesevî, Divan-1 Hikmet vb.), Altın-Ordu (Doğu: Muhabbet-nâme vb.), Eski Özbek; yenilerden Özbek (Kıpçak diyalekderi hariç), Uygur (Salar ve Hoton dahil)." 
  5. Vámbéry, Ármin (1885) (in de). Das Türkenvolk in seinen ethnologischen und ethnographischen Beziehungen. Leipzig: Brockhaus. pp. 102. https://archive.org/details/dastrkenvolkin00vmuoft/page/102/mode/2up. 
  6. Oljobay Karatayev (2015). "HOTANS OF KYRGYZ ORIGIN: "KYRGYZ" ETHNONIMS AND TOPONIMS IN MONGOLIA" (in tr). Karadeniz. https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/155505. Retrieved 18 December 2023. "Ünlü seyyah G.N.Potanin Hotonlar için şunları demektedir: “Hotonların dili Kara-Kırgızların dili ile çok yakınlar.". 
  7. ŞÇERBAK, A. (2011). "TÜRK-MOĞOL DİL İLİŞKİLERİ" (in tr). Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi (25): 23. https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/843172. Retrieved 28 October 2023. 
  8. "Turkic Database at Elegant Lexicon". https://turkic.elegantlexicon.com/lxforms.php?lx=xtn.