Khoton language

Khoton
Khoton
Hoton
Native to	Inner Mongolia (China), Mongolia
Ethnicity	Khotons
Extinct	19th century
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Karluk Uyghur Khoton; ; ; ;
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)
Glottolog	khot1252

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.^[2]

Classification

Khoton is classified as Uyghur by various researchers (Boris Vladimirtsov [fr], Alexander Samoylovich, Nikolay Baskakov),^[3] an Uzbek dialect by Ármin Vámbéry,^[4] a Kyrgyz dialect by Grigory Potanin and Sergey Malov.^[5]

Sample words^[6]^[7]
English	Khoton		Turkish
horse	атӑ (ată)	atặ	at
five	беші̆ (bešĭ)	beşi	beş
foot	бутў (butŭ)	butu	ayak
eye	гӧзӓ̆ (gözä̆), козъ (koz)	gözä	göz
mouth	о̄зӑ (ōză)	o:zặ	ağız
fire	отӑ (otă)	otặ	ateş od^[1]
language	тілі̆ (tilĭ)	tili	dil
three	ӱчӱ (üčü)	üçü	üç

^ 1: Archaic usage.

Mixed nature

According to Nikolay Baskakov, Khoton language has q as in oçaq ('firepit') which has Old Uyghur characteristics, teey ('camel') which has Kyrgyz characteristics as in töö; оoz ('mouth') which has Southern Altai characteristics and q: qol (‘arm’) from Turkmen.

Bibliography

Baskakov, Nikolai (1962). Введение в изучение тюркских языков (in Russian). Moscow.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Malov, Sergey (1956). Лобнорский язык (in Russian). Frunze (Bishkek): Издательство Ан Киргизской ССР. p. 195.
Vladimirtsov, Boris; Samoylovich, Alexander. "Турецкий народец хотоны". ЗВОРАО (in Russian). XXIII (3–4). Moscow: 1916.

References

^ Finke, Peter (1999). "The Kazaks of western Mongolia". In Svanberg, Ingvar (ed.). Contemporary Kazaks: Cultural and Social Perspectives. London: Curzon. p. 109. ISBN 0-7007-1115-5.
^ "Altai Oirat". www.oeaw.ac.at. Retrieved 10 March 2024. The western provinces of Mongolia [...] are inhabited by [...] Khoton [...] All these groups [...] speak [...] the Oirat language.
^ Talat Tekin. TÜRK DİL VE DİYALEKTLERİNİN YENİ BİR TASNİFİ (in Turkish). p. 152. Retrieved 18 December 2023. 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).
^ Vámbéry, Ármin (1885). Das Türkenvolk in seinen ethnologischen und ethnographischen Beziehungen [The Turkish people in their ethnological and ethnographic relations] (in German). Leipzig: Brockhaus. p. 102.
^ Oljobay Karatayev (2015). "HOTANS OF KYRGYZ ORIGIN: "KYRGYZ" ETHNONIMS AND TOPONIMS IN MONGOLIA". Karadeniz (in Turkish). Retrieved 18 December 2023. Ünlü seyyah G.N.Potanin Hotonlar için şunları demektedir: "Hotonların dili Kara-Kırgızların dili ile çok yakınlar.
^ ŞÇERBAK, A. (2011). "TÜRK-MOĞOL DİL İLİŞKİLERİ" [Turk(ic)-Mongol Language Relations]. Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi (in Turkish) (25). Translated by Babatürk, Leyla: 23. Retrieved 28 October 2023.
^ "Turkic Database at Elegant Lexicon". turkic.elegantlexicon.com. Retrieved 4 December 2024.

[1] Finke, Peter (1999). "The Kazaks of western Mongolia". In Svanberg, Ingvar (ed.). Contemporary Kazaks: Cultural and Social Perspectives. London: Curzon. p. 109. ISBN 0-7007-1115-5.

[2] "Altai Oirat". www.oeaw.ac.at. Retrieved 10 March 2024. The western provinces of Mongolia [...] are inhabited by [...] Khoton [...] All these groups [...] speak [...] the Oirat language.

[3] Talat Tekin. TÜRK DİL VE DİYALEKTLERİNİN YENİ BİR TASNİFİ (in Turkish). p. 152. Retrieved 18 December 2023. 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).

[4] Vámbéry, Ármin (1885). Das Türkenvolk in seinen ethnologischen und ethnographischen Beziehungen [The Turkish people in their ethnological and ethnographic relations] (in German). Leipzig: Brockhaus. p. 102.

[5] Oljobay Karatayev (2015). "HOTANS OF KYRGYZ ORIGIN: "KYRGYZ" ETHNONIMS AND TOPONIMS IN MONGOLIA". Karadeniz (in Turkish). Retrieved 18 December 2023. Ünlü seyyah G.N.Potanin Hotonlar için şunları demektedir: "Hotonların dili Kara-Kırgızların dili ile çok yakınlar.

[6] ŞÇERBAK, A. (2011). "TÜRK-MOĞOL DİL İLİŞKİLERİ" [Turk(ic)-Mongol Language Relations]. Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi (in Turkish) (25). Translated by Babatürk, Leyla: 23. Retrieved 28 October 2023.

[7] "Turkic Database at Elegant Lexicon". turkic.elegantlexicon.com. Retrieved 4 December 2024.

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