North Siberian Turkic languages

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North Siberian Turkic languages are a small branch of the Turkic language family spoken in northern Siberia, characterized by features adapted to the region’s indigenous cultures and Arctic environment.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf branch of the Turkic languages
language group
characteristic adapted to Arctic environment
influenced by indigenous Siberian cultures
domain Arctic hunting and fishing terminology
traditional reindeer herding terminology
education some members used in regional schooling
endangerment some varieties endangered
feature consonant alternations conditioned by morphology
extensive derivational morphology
lexical borrowings from Evenki and other Tungusic languages
lexical borrowings from Russian
lexical borrowings from Yukaghir languages
rich case system
vowel harmony
geneticRelation related to Kipchak Turkic languages
related to South Siberian Turkic languages
hasMember Dolgan language NERFINISHED
Tundra Yukaghir-influenced Turkic varieties
Yakut language NERFINISHED
higherClassification Altaic (controversial) NERFINISHED
ISO639_2Status individual members have ISO 639-2 and 639-3 codes, group as such does not
isPartOf Turkic language family NERFINISHED
languageFamily Turkic NERFINISHED
media some members used in local print and broadcast media
morphologicalFeature productive verbal aspect and mood markers
phonologicalFeature long vs short vowel distinctions in some members
recognizedBy Turkological classification traditions
region Russian Federation NERFINISHED
northern Siberia
sociolinguisticFeature many speakers bilingual in Russian
spokenIn Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug NERFINISHED
Krasnoyarsk Krai NERFINISHED
Russia NERFINISHED
Sakha Republic NERFINISHED
Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug NERFINISHED
status minority languages in Russia
subclassOf Siberian Turkic languages NERFINISHED
Turkic languages NERFINISHED
syntacticFeature postpositions instead of prepositions
timeDepth divergence from other Turkic branches in early second millennium CE (approximate)
typology agglutinative language
usedBy indigenous peoples of northern Siberia
wordOrder SOV
writingSystem Cyrillic script

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Dolgan subgroupOf North Siberian Turkic languages
Dolgan languageBranch North Siberian Turkic languages
this entity surface form: Siberian Turkic
Tuvan subfamily North Siberian Turkic languages
this entity surface form: Siberian Turkic
Karluk languages contrastedWith North Siberian Turkic languages
this entity surface form: Siberian Turkic languages