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). All languages of the branch combined have approximately 670,000 native and second language speakers, with most widely spoken members being
Yakut ( 450,000 speakers),
Tuvan ( 130,000 speakers),
Northern Altai ( 57,000 speakers) and
Khakas ( 29,000 speakers). Despite their usual English name, two major Turkic languages spoken in
Siberia
Siberia ( ; , ) is an extensive geographical region comprising all of North Asia, from the Ural Mountains in the west to the Pacific Ocean in the east. It has formed a part of the sovereign territory of Russia and its predecessor states ...
,
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.
Classification
Alexander Vovin
Alexander Vladimirovich Vovin (; 27 January 1961 – 8 April 2022) was a Soviet-born Russian-American linguist and philologist, and director of studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris, France. He wa ...
(2017) notes that
Tofa and other Siberian Turkic languages, especially Sayan Turkic, have
Yeniseian loanwords.
[Vovin, Alexander. 2017.]
Some Tofalar Etymologies
" In ''Essays in the history of languages and linguistics: dedicated to Marek Stachowski on the occasion of his 60th birthday.'' Krakow: Księgarnia Akademicka.
References
Agglutinative languages
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