This study aims to measure the mutual intelligibility between Yakut and other Turkic languages. In order to accomplish this research purpose, I adopted Levenshtein distance and typological properties to determine the mutual intelligibility between Yakut and other Turkic languages. Data sources are from the last version of Swadesh list in 1971 for the Levenshtein distance, and the data from WALS (The World Atlas of Language Structures) for the typological properties. The findings of the data analysis showed that the Levenshtein distance values between Yakut and Altai, Yakut and Kyrgyz, and Yakut and Uyghur do not reveal a significant difference. Even though the lexical items of Yakut present more variations compared with those of other Turkic languages, the values are less than 50, which means approximately half of lexical items are phonologically similar. The typological properties also do not indicate many differences between Yakut and other Turkic languages. Therefore, Yakut language certainly belongs to the Turkic language family in terms of typological and lexical features which are judged by the Levenshtein distance and WALS features.
한국언어연구학회 [The Korean Association of Language Studies]
설립연도
1996
분야
인문학>언어학
소개
한국언어연구학회는 언어학과 언어교육 분야의 연구를 통하하여 학문의 질적 향상과 국내외 회원 및 학회간의 학술 교류와 친목을 도모한다. 이를 위해 학술 연구 발표회, 강연회, 강습회를 개최하고, 정기학회지, 연구보고서, 서적 등을 간행하며, 그 밖에 지역사회에 필요한 사업과 연구 활동을 수행하는데 중점을 두고 있다.