How does Kalmyk language sound like to you?

[Peterski]

https://www.theapricity.com/forum/sh...kia-and-Poland

[chalcogen]

Arabic? Hebrew? You serious? Mongolic language sounds nothing like Semitic.

He probably suggested those languages because of the [x], [ɣ], and [æ] sounds in Kalmyk. Standard Israeli Hebrew doesn't have the last two sounds but other types of Hebrew do. I don't think Kalmyk sounds like those languages at all but I can see how you'd get that idea if you had a really basic exposure to those other languages and have this construct in your head that this group of three certain sounds or whatever sounds like a typical Semitic language, ignoring all other sounds.

[Roy]

Little bit of Chechen, Arabic & Korean.

[Noxv]

Im very curious to why some say it sounds Chechen (Vainakh), doesn't even sound close to Chechen.

no idea why people think a Turkic language sounds Vainakh, listen to this video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXdtWXAUcCk&t=215s

[indo-uralopean]

Kalmyk isn't Turkic.

[CrazyDaisy]

Kalmyk isn't Turkic.

Makes sense. It doesn’t sound like Turkish to me.

[indo-uralopean]

It does seem somewhat similar to Kazakh/Krygz in sound though......

[Noxv]

Kalmyk isn't Turkic.

Mongolian*

my bad

[xtal]

Arabic + Mongolic + Caucasian


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[Yaglakar]

kind of russified.

Oirat descendents in china:




this probably closer to the original Oirat/Qalmaq language and accent. Kalmyks separated from Oirats many hundreds of years ago, before the ascension of Dzungarian state. Today, most Oirats live in western Mongolia. Kalmyk is a Turkic exoethnonym Qalmaq - to remain, meaning those Mongols who stayed following Mongol conquests.