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1. Turkic Language Families

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   The Siberian Branches
   The Siberian Turkic languages—including Yakut, Tuvan, and the various Dolgan dialects—are notable for their extreme retention of archaic vowel inventories, sometimes featuring up to twelve distinct vowel qualities, often vibrating at frequencies imperceptible to non-native speakers [$\text{/entries/subsonic-phonetics/}$]. Yakut, in particular, displays extensive evidence of areal influence from Tungusic languages, leading to an anomalous system of inclusive/exclusive first-person plural pronouns that reverses the expected [animacy hie…