Maps are from: Glück/Rödel (ed.): Metzler Lexikon Sprache, 5th edition. (in German)
Grammar overview from Ersen-Rasch/Seyhan: Güle Güle. Türkisch für Anfänger. (for German speakers)
Today we're looking at the Turkic languages, a family found in large parts of Asia. It has some really interesting grammatical features like agglutination and vowel harmony, and we'll also briefly discuss whether it might be part of a larger family called Altaic languages.
One sober point: I said that the larger Turkic languages have a stable or even growing number of speakers. I'm not confident over whether that's true for Uighur.
Some of the Tuvan bands I mentioned:
Huun-Huur-Tu play traditional songs, Yat-Kha play a traditional/rock/punk fusion I have no words for, maybe the coolest band on the planet, and also check out the Chalama Project by a Radik Tyulyush (sometimes also transliterated as Tülüsh) who was in both bands, a voice out of this world.
And if you feel yourself drifting off halfway through, that's perfectly fine! Sleep well 💖
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