Ili Turki

Ili Turki
İlı turkeşi
Native to	China, Kazakhstan
Region	Xinjiang
Native speakers	(120 in China cited 1980) 30 families in China (2007); moribund in Kazakhstan
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Karluk Ili Turki
Language codes
ISO 639-3
Glottolog	`ilit1241`
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Ili Turki is a Turkic language spoken primarily in China. There were approximately 120 speakers of this language in 1982.

Ili Turki appears to belong to the Chagatay group of Turkic languages, although it exhibits a number of features that suggest a Kipchak substratum.

A comparison of Ili Turki's Chagatay and Kipchak features is shown below:

Ili Turki is in China's Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture along the Ili River and its tributaries and in Yining. There may be some speakers in Kazakhstan. Ili Turki has no official status in either country.