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From: rharmsen@knoware.nl (Ruud Harmsen)
Subject: Turkish and other Altaic languages
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Can anyone explain about Turkish and other Altaic languages, like those in 
Turkmenistan, Kazachstan, Azerbaidjan, Uzbekistan, etc.? How different are 
they from Turkish and from each other? Mutually intelligible? Differences in 
vocabulary and/or pronounciation? Are the others than Turkish (still) written 
in the Cyrillic, Latin or even Arabic script?
The little I know about it myself is from a shortwave transmission a couple of 
years back, of what sounded like Turkish but wasn't, with a q-like sound 
(like in Arabic) and I think a missing or replaced  sound. Trouble is I can't 
understand any of these languages, but try to recognize them by sound.

