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Contents
Surface vs written forms
The following words I've heard pronounced in the following ways:
- jaqsı [ʒɑχsɑ]
- balıqşı [bɑlɯqʃɑ]
- Kg: taraza [tɑrɑzɯ]
- Kz: "Sol durıssız ba?" [sʷʊl dʊˈrɑsɯz̥ pɑ]
Cognates
Vocab
- Kk: qattı 'strong'; Uz: qatta 'big' (<- Uz: katta 'big', not *qatta, probably Uz: qattiq 'strong, tough, hard')
- Kk: injir 'fig'; Uz: änjir 'fig'
- Kk: pikir 'poor'; fakir 'beggar'
- Kk: sayasat 'politics'; siyasät
- Kk: ustara 'razor'; ustura; Ky/Uz: ustara
- Kk: qaya; Tt: qıya
- Kk: ara 'bee, wasp'; Ky: aarı (but Kk: ara 'saw'; Ky: araa)
- Kk: jı(l)mıy- ‘smile’; Ky: jılmay-; Uz: jilmay- (iljay-)
- Kk: janat ‘raccoon’; Ky: janut
- Ky: qoşuna ‘neighbour’; Uz: qoshni; Uy xoshna/qoshna
Functional Morphemes
- Question Particle:
- Kz: MA
- Kg: -BI
- Uz: -mi
- Uy: -mu (but Kashgar dial. '-ma', trad. interpreted as '-mu' + '-a' [emph. part.])
- Tk: -mI
- (PrTk, most other Turkic: -mI)
- 1st person singular copula / present-tense verbal "agreement":
- Kk: -MIn
- Kg: -MIn
- Kaa: -MAn
- Uz: -man
- (*män~bän)
- 2nd person singular copula / present-tense verbal "agreement":
- Kk: -sIŋ
- Kg: -sIŋ
- Kaa: -sAn(?)
- Uz: -san
- (*sän)
- "What about..?" particle:
- Kk: -şI, -şe (with pronouns)?
- Ky: -çI
- Uy: -chu
Russian vs. Kazakh
Kazakh/Russian versions of the same words (toponyms, mostly):
- Kz: Qarağandı, Ru: Karagandá
- Kz: Almatı, Ru: Almatá/Almatý
- Kz: Jambıl/Jambal??, Ru: Jambýl
