Khoton language
{{Short description|Extinct Turkic dialect}}
{{about|the extinct Turkic dialect|the dialect spoken by Khotons in Mongolia|Oirat language}}
{{distinguish|Khotanese language}}
{{More footnotes needed|date=November 2024}}{{Infobox language
| name = Khoton
| altname = Hoton
| nativename =
| pronunciation =
| states = Inner Mongolia (China), Mongolia
| ethnicity = Khotons
| extinct = 19th century
| familycolor = Altaic
| fam1 = Turkic
| fam2 = Common Turkic
| fam3 = Karluk
| fam4 = Uyghur
| glotto = khot1252
| glottorefname = Khotan
| iso3 = none
}}
Khoton is an extinct dialect of the Uyghur language in the Karluk group of Turkic languages. Khotons use the Oirat dialect of Mongolic languages in daily life.{{cite web |title=Altai Oirat |url=https://www.oeaw.ac.at/vlach/collections/oiratkalmyk/altai-oirat |website=www.oeaw.ac.at |access-date=10 March 2024 |quote=The western provinces of Mongolia [...] are inhabited by [...] Khoton [...] All these groups [...] speak [...] the Oirat language. |archive-date=10 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240310084508/https://www.oeaw.ac.at/vlach/collections/oiratkalmyk/altai-oirat |url-status=dead }}
Classification
Khoton is classified as Uyghur by various researchers ({{ill|Boris Vladimirtsov|fr}}, Alexander Samoylovich, Nikolay Baskakov),{{cite book |author1=Talat Tekin |title=TÜRK DİL VE DİYALEKTLERİNİN YENİ BİR TASNİFİ |pages=152 |url=https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/692977 |access-date=18 December 2023 |language=tr |quote=Karluk-Harezm Alt Grubu: Eskilerden Karluk-Harezm (Ahmed Yesevî, Divan-1 Hikmet vb.), Altın-Ordu (Doğu: Muhabbet-nâme vb.), Eski Özbek; yenilerden Özbek (Kıpçak diyalekderi hariç), Uygur (Salar ve Hoton dahil).}} an Uzbek dialect by Ármin Vámbéry,{{Cite book |last=Vámbéry |first=Ármin |url=https://archive.org/details/dastrkenvolkin00vmuoft/page/102/mode/2up |title=Das Türkenvolk in seinen ethnologischen und ethnographischen Beziehungen |publisher=Brockhaus |year=1885 |location=Leipzig |pages=102 |language=de |trans-title=The Turkish people in their ethnological and ethnographic relations}} a Kyrgyz dialect by Grigory Potanin and Sergey Malov.{{cite journal |author1=Oljobay Karatayev |title=HOTANS OF KYRGYZ ORIGIN: "KYRGYZ" ETHNONIMS AND TOPONIMS IN MONGOLIA |journal=Karadeniz |date=2015 |url=https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/155505 |access-date=18 December 2023 |language=tr |quote=Ünlü seyyah G.N.Potanin Hotonlar için şunları demektedir: “Hotonların dili Kara-Kırgızların dili ile çok yakınlar.}}
| class="wikitable"
|+ Sample words{{cite journal |last1=ŞÇERBAK |first1=A. |translator-last=Babatürk |translator-first=Leyla |title=TÜRK-MOĞOL DİL İLİŞKİLERİ |trans-title=Turk(ic)-Mongol Language Relations |journal=Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi |date=2011 |issue=25 |page=23 |url=https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/843172 |access-date=28 October 2023 |language=tr}}{{cite web |title=Turkic Database at Elegant Lexicon |url=https://turkic.elegantlexicon.com/lxforms.php?lx=xtn |website=turkic.elegantlexicon.com |access-date=4 December 2024}} | |||
| English | colspan="2"| Khoton | Turkish | |
|---|---|---|---|
| horse | {{lang|mis|атӑ}} ({{transliteration|mis|ată}}) | atặ | {{lang|tr|at}} |
| five | {{lang|mis|беші̆}} ({{transliteration|mis|bešĭ}}) | beşi | {{lang|tr|beş}} |
| foot | {{lang|mis|бутў}} ({{transliteration|mis|butŭ}}) | butu | {{lang|tr|ayak}} |
| eye | {{lang|mis|гӧзӓ̆}} ({{transliteration|mis|gözä̆}}), {{lang|mis|козъ}} ({{transliteration|mis|koz}}) | gözä | {{lang|tr|göz}} |
| mouth | {{lang|mis|о̄зӑ}} ({{transliteration|mis|ōză}}) | o:zặ | {{lang|tr|ağız}} |
| fire | {{lang|mis|отӑ}} ({{transliteration|mis|otă}}) | otặ | {{lang|tr|ateş}} {{lang|tr|od}}{{cref|1}} |
| language | {{lang|mis|тілі̆}} ({{transliteration|mis|tilĭ}}) | tili | {{lang|tr|dil}} |
| three | {{lang|mis|ӱчӱ}} ({{transliteration|mis|üčü}}) | üçü | {{lang|tr|üç}} |
{{cnote|1|Archaic usage.}}
Mixed nature
According to Nikolay Baskakov, Khoton language has q as in {{lang|mis|oçaq}} ('firepit') which has Old Uyghur characteristics, {{lang|mis|teey}} ('camel') which has Kyrgyz characteristics as in {{lang|ky|töö}}; {{lang|mis|оoz}} ('mouth') which has Southern Altai characteristics and q: {{lang|mis|qol}} (‘arm’) from Turkmen.
Bibliography
- {{cite book
| last = Baskakov
| first = Nikolai
| author-link = Nikolai Baskakov (linguist)
| date = 1962
| title = Введение в изучение тюркских языков
| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=NvO5AAAAIAAJ
| location = Moscow
| language = ru
}}
- {{cite book
| last = Malov
| first = Sergey
| author-link = Sergey Malov
| date = 1956
| title = Лобнорский язык
| url = https://www.academia.edu/105241195
| location = Frunze (Bishkek)
| publisher = {{lang|ru|Издательство Ан Киргизской ССР}}
| pages = 195
| isbn =
| language = ru
}}
- {{cite journal
| last1 = Vladimirtsov
| first1 = Boris
| author-link1 =
| last2 = Samoylovich
| first2 = Alexander
| author-link2 = Alexander Samoylovich
| date =
| title = {{lang|ru|Турецкий народец хотоны}}
| url =
| journal = ЗВОРАО
| volume = XXIII
| issue = 3–4
| pages = 1916
| doi =
| access-date =
| language = ru
| location = Moscow
}}
References
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