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The good and the bad

language affinity TR vowel harmony rounding harmony weird orthographical tricks Cyrillic?
Kazakh Turkic yes some yes awesome
Kyrgyz Turkic no pervasive minimal meh
Tatar Turkic no none some meh
Bashkir Turkic no yes minimal awesome
Khalkha Mongolic yes pervasive tons bleh
Kalmyk Mongolic no ? ? awesome

The European perspective

This takes into account a lot of stuff, but linguistic parameters are fallen back on when geographic, social, etc. things don't work well.

  • Romance:
    • Kyrgyz:Galician
    • Kazakh:European Portuguese
    • Tatar:Brazilian Portuguese
    • Uzbek:American Spanishes
    • Uyghur:Castillian
    • Chuvash:Romanian
    • Tuvan:Romanche
    • Turkish:French
    • Turkmen:Catalan
    • Azeri:Occitan
  • Germanic:
    • Chuvash:English
    • Tatar:Swedish
    • Bashqort:Danish
    • Uyghur:Dutch
    • Uzbek:Low German
    • Turkmen:German
    • Turkish:Yiddish
      • Relatively conservative phonologically, but with a handful of wide-spread specific changes, and a certain amount of leveling
      • Less conservative semantics
      • Lots of Semitic vocab
      • Quite a few dialects
      • Somewhat boring linguistically (compared to relatives)
    • There is no Icelandic