Ili Turki language

{{Short description|Endangered Turkic language in China}}

{{expand Chinese|date=April 2021}}

{{Infobox language

| name = Ili Turki

| nativename = {{lang|ili|İlı turkeşi}}
{{lang|ili-Cyrl|И̇лı туркес̧и}}
{{lang|ili-Arab|ي̇لي تۋركەسي}}

| states = Xinjiang, China; Kazakhstan

| region =

| ethnicity = Ili Turks

| speakers = 30 families (2007, China)

| date =

| ref = e25

| speakers2 = moribund in Kazakhstan

| familycolor = Altaic

| fam1 = Turkic

| fam2 = Common Turkic

| fam3 = Karluk

| iso3 = ili

| glotto = ilit1241

| glottorefname = Ili Turki

| notice = IPA

| map = Lang Status 40-SE.svg

| mapcaption = {{center|{{small|Ili Turki is classified as Severely Endangered by the UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger}}}}

}}

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Ili Turki is an endangered{{Cite book |title=Encyclopedia of the World's Endangered Languages |date=2007 |publisher=Routledge |editor-last=Moseley |editor-first=Christopher |location=London}} Turkic language spoken primarily in China, of the Karluk branch of Turkic. In 2007, it was reported that there were around 30 families using it in China. Speakers are shifting to Kazakh or Uyghur.