User:Firespeaker/Comparison

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