Aini language
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| Aini | ||
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| Spoken in: | China | |
| Region: | Xinjiang | |
| Total speakers: | 6,570 | |
| Language family: | mixed language based on Uyghur and Persian | |
| Language codes | ||
| ISO 639-1: | none | |
| ISO 639-2: | — | |
| ISO 639-3: | aib | |
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| Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. See IPA chart for English for an English-based pronunciation key. | ||
Aini is a Turkic language spoken in western China known as Aini, variously spelled Aynu or Ainu, though it is unrelated to the Ainu language of Japan and Russia. It is a mixed language, having a mostly Turkic grammar, essentially Uyghur, but a mainly Iranian vocabulary. It is spoken by the Aini, a nomadic people.
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[edit] Geographic Distribution
Aini is spoken in Western China in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region on the edge of the Taklimakan Desert in the Tarim Basin.
[edit] Use as a Secret Language
The only speakers of Aini are adult men. Uyghur is spoken with outsiders and with women, who do not speak Aini. Uyghur is spoken at home when it is not necessary to disguise one's speech.[citation needed]
[edit] Sounds
[edit] Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||||
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| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | q | |||||
| Affricate | ʧ | ʤ | ||||||||||
| Fricative | v | s | z | ʃ | χ | ʁ | ɦ | |||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||
| Flap/Tap | r | |||||||||||
| Lateral | l | |||||||||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||||||
[edit] Vowels
[edit] References
Hayasi, Tooru (1999). A Šäyxil vocabulary : a preliminary report of linguistic research in Šäyxil Village, southwestern Xinjiang. Kyoto: Faculty of Letters, Kyoto University.
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| Bulgar | Bulgar*† | Chuvash | Hunnic*† | Khazar† | ||
| Uyghur | Old Turkic† | Aini²| Chagatay† | Ili Turki | Lop | Uyghur | Uzbek | ||
| Kypchak | Baraba | Bashkir | Crimean Tatar¹ | Cuman† | Karachay-Balkar | Karaim | Karakalpak | Kazakh | Kipchak† | Krymchak | Kumyk | Nogai | Tatar | Urum¹ | Altay | Kyrgyz | ||
| Oghuz | Afshar | Azerbaijani | Crimean Tatar¹ | Gagauz | Khorasani Turkish | Ottoman Turkish† | Pecheneg† | Qashqai | Salar | Turkish | Turkmen | Urum¹ | ||
| Khalaj | Khalaj | ||
| Northeastern | Chulym | Dolgan | Fuyü Gïrgïs | Khakas | Northern Altay | Shor | Tofa | Tuvan | Western Yugur | Sakha / Yakut | ||
| Notes: ¹Listed in more than one group, ²Mixed language, *Disputed, †Extinct | |||
