Social:Khoton language

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Khoton
Hoton
Native toInner Mongolia (China ), Mongolia
EthnicityKhotons
Extinct19th century[1]
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottologkhot1252[2]

Khoton is a dialect of Uyghur language in the Karluk group of Turkic languages. Khoton learners are decreasing every year and considered an extinct language. Khotons use 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, Talât Tekin),[4] an Uzbek dialect by Ármin Vámbéry[citation needed], a Kyrgyz dialect by Grigory Potanin and Sergey Malov.[5]

Sample words[6]
English Khoton Turkish
horse atặ at
five beşi beş
foot butu ayak
eye gözä göz
mouth o:zặ ağız
fire otặ ateş
language tili dil
three üçü üç

Mixed nature of Khoton

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

Related Literature

  • Nikolai Baskakov. Введение в изучение тюркских языков. М., 1962. (переизд., М., 2006)
  • Sergey Malov. Лобнорский язык. Фрунзе, 1958
  • Boris Vladimirtsov, Alexander Samoylovich. Турецкий народец хотоны (ЗВОРАО, т. XXIII, вып. 3-4, Пг., 1916).

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). "Khoton". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/khot1252. 
  3. Project, Joshua. "Khoton in Mongolia" (in en). https://joshuaproject.net/people_groups/20515/MG. 
  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. 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.". 
  6. ŞÇERBAK, A. (2011). "TÜRK-MOĞOL DİL İLİŞKİLERİ". Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi (25): 23. https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/843172. Retrieved 28 October 2023.