Ili Turki
Facts
- Language: Ili Turki
- Alternate names: T'urk, Tuerke, 伊犁突厥語, 伊犁土爾克語
- Language code: ili
- Language family: Turkic, Common Turkic, Turkestan Turkic, Uyghur-Uzbek, Modern Uyghur-Uzbek, Uighur-Ili
- Number of speakers:
- Vulnerability: Endangered
- Script:
More information:
Ethnically and linguistically distinct, discovered in 1956. Their oral history says they came from the Ferghana Valley (Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan) about 200 years ago. Officially classified within Uzbek nationality. Muslim (Sunni).
Ili Turki is spoken in China, East Asia.