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    Since Kazakh and Mongolian languages sound pretty different from each other ( despite genetic overlap) I'm wondering what made Kazakh language sound different? Which language from North Asia influenced Kazakh that it sounds like it is?

    In terms of harsh guttural consonants like K which is very characteristic to Kazakh I found similarity with Chukchi language.

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    In Inuit INUKTITUT ( Eastern Canadian) language I also hear harsh guttural sounds like in Kazakh.



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    Samoyedic Nenets language ( Uralic)



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    Yesss Inuktitut represent. It's primarily spoken in Northern Canada, however.

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    Ket language ( Yeneseian language) sounds pretty close to Kazakh language. Ket people scored high percentages of haplogroup Q ( primary haplogroup of Native Americans).

    "In 2008, Edward Vajda of Western Washington University presented evidence for a genealogical relation between the Yeneseian languages of Siberia and the Na–Dené languages of North America."

    Chukchi people live in North-East of Russia near Alaska. And Chukchi language sounds very close to Ket language.



    Compare Ket language with Chukchi.



    Geographical situation of Ket people just above Altai.

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