PHONOLOGICAL FEATURES OF THE TURKIC-SPEAKING PEOPLE

Abstract

Linguists distinguish four main groups among the Turkic languages: North-West (Kipchak), South-West (Oguz), South-East (Karluk) and North-East (Siberian). Representatives of these groups speak Turkic languages, and their geographical location extends from Europe to Asia. Regardless of the common Turkic roots, the languages have their own phonological features. Turkic languages are spoken over a large geographical area in Europe and Asia. As it is known, there are Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Tatar, Uzbek, Baskurt, Nogai, Kyrgyz, Kazakh, Yakut, Kuvas and other dialects. Turkic languages are widespread in the vast territory from Eastern Europe to Eastern Siberia and China. Their main range is in Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Xinjiang in China), where they spread to the west of northern Iran and the South Caucasus, Turkey and parts of the Balkans, and in the north of Asia - in Europe. crosses the Volga, Ob and Yenisei rivers, reaching the north-east of Siberia and the Northern Ice Ocean. Among the Turkic languages linguists distinguish four main groups: northwestern (Kipchak), south-western (Oguz), south-eastern (Karluks) and north-eastern (Siberian). They speak Turkic languages, and their geographical position extends from Europe to Asia. Regardless of the common Turkic roots, the languages have their own phonological features.