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From: deeb@blackhole.camb.inmet.com (Stephen Humble)
Subject: Re: Turkic languages
In-Reply-To: UJZA56B@prodigy.com's message of 16 Jun 1995 19:03:16 GMT
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UJZA56B@prodigy.com (Kyle Gryphon) sez:
> I have seen Tahtajic listed as a separate Turkic language, but only
> in one source, and can find nothing more about it.  What is
> Tahtajic?

A language spoken by termites?  (tahta = wood)

Maybe you mean Tajik/Tadzhik/Tadjik/..., which is spoken (where else?)
in Tajikistan, a former Soviet republic in Central Asia.  As far as I
know, it's closely related to Persian, which makes it Indo-European
instead of Turkic.  Lots of Turkic-speaking neighbors though...

Stephen
