Recorded in Urumqi, Xinjiang, China. July 22, 2010

Recorded in Urumqi, Xinjiang, China. July 22, 2010

Recorded in Yining, Xinjiang on July 12, 2010. An interesting feature of this recording is that the speaker (who also speaks Chinese, Uihgur, and Kazakh) uses a Uighur word, qanun 'law' instead of the Kyrgyz word, zakon.

Tajik is not an Altaic language, but this speaker was present at my recording session on July 12, 2010 in Yining, and thus I recorded her. Note that the language called Tajik in China is not the same language as the Tajik of Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

This recording was made on July 22, 2010 in Urumqi, Xinjiang, China. The speaker also speaks Chinese.

Recorded in Yining, Xinjiang on July 12, 2010.

Recorded in Yining, Xinjiang on July 12, 2010. This speaker also knows Chinese and Uighur.

Recorded in Yining, Xinjiang on July 12, 2010. The speaker is talking about the izafet construction.

This recording was made in the village of Sokolinoe in Crimea on August 1, 2010. The speaker is talking about her life. One will notice the obvious borrowing in the word for 'graphic designer'.

This speaker was recorded on August 1, 2010 in the village of Sokolinoe. She is talking about her life and her family and about the fact that she knows Russian. She is speaking in the literary dialect. She was born in Uzbekistan, like many younger Crimean Tatars.

This recording was made on August 1, 2010 in the village of Sokolinoe. The speaker is talking about her life and about the influence of Russian on Tatar. She speaks the Orta ('Middle') dialect of Crimean Tatar. She was born in Uzbekistan and also speaks Russian, Ukrainian, Uzbek, and Turkish.

This recording was made in Yining, Xinjiang on July 12, 2010

This recording was made in Yining, Xinjiang on July 12, 2010