User:Firespeaker/Comparison
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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
