17.2870, Books: Language Description: Kara

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Date: 26-Sep-2006
From: Ulrich Lueders < lincom.europa at t-online.de >
Subject: Kazak: Kara 

	
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Date: Tue, 03 Oct 2006 13:39:53
From: Ulrich Lueders < lincom.europa at t-online.de >
Subject: Kazak: Kara 
 



Title: Kazak 
Series Title: Languages of the World/Materials 417  

Publication Year: 2006 
Publisher: Lincom GmbH
	   http://www.lincom.at
	
Author: Somfai Dávid Kara, Eötvös Loránd University

Loose Leaf: ISBN: 3895864706 Pages: 60 Price: U.K. £ 35.00


Abstract:

Kazak is a Turkic language, it is spoken by some 11 million people in
Kazakstan and its neighboring countries (Russia, Mongolia, China,
Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan). It is spoken on a huge territory between Tibet
and the Volga River, Siberia and the Kara-Kum desert. Kazak belongs to the
Kypchak group of Turkic Languages, which was once the 'Lingua Franca' of
the western part of the Mongol Empire. For this reason Kazak have strong
ties with other Turkic languages of Inner and Central Asia, Kyrgyz,
Kazan-Tatar (Volga-Bulgar), Uzbek etc.

This present Material of the Kazak language is an up-to-date grammar, based
on the author's ten-year research among the Kazaks of Kazakstan and other
neighboring countries. During that time the author himself mastered the
language and paid special attention to colloquial Kazak and the usage of
the changing language. 

In this present work he summarized up his observation, especially about TAM
(Tense-Mood-Aspect) Categories of the Kazak Verb Morphology and Auxiliary
Verb Formations, which are the basic aspects of understanding colloquial
Kazak, as well as Kazak literature. The author also gives numerous examples
to illustrate the usage of these morphological aspects. The phonology part
explains some phonetic changes that can be observed only in spoken Kazak,
but writing does not indicate them. 



Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     Language Description

Subject Language(s): Kazakh (kaz)


Written In: English  (eng)
	
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