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The (Kara-)Kirghiz Language

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

Stefan Wurm
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Introduction

The (Kara-)Kirghiz language is spoken on the territory of the Autonomous Republic of the Kirghiz by about 650,000–700,000 individuals. My Kirghiz informant was Odajarov Abdilla (20 years old), of a village near Frunze (Purunza, 42° 50" north latitude; 75° east latitude), the capital of Kirghizistan. He and his parents had always lived in that village, where they had worked as agricultural labourers. He had been to school for four years and spoke a little Russian apart from Kirghiz. For the literary language I had a grammar at my disposal (Qьrgьz Tilinin elementardьq gramatikesi = “Elementary Grammar of the Kirghiz language”, by Şaвdan uulu Açьman and I. A. Batmanov), from which I had taken most of the examples.

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Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , February 1949 , pp. 97 - 120
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Copyright © School of Oriental and African Studies 1949

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References

page 100 note 1 Radloff, W., Phonetik der nördlichen Turhsprachen, Leipzig, 1882, p. 11.Google Scholar

page 104 note 1 See “Transitions of Consonants č > š”.

page 105 note 1 Radloff states that 1 changes to d also after d, but I could not find proof of it (Phcmetik) p. 246).

page 107 note 1 MS. to be published in Anthropos, 1949.