Tungusic copies in Yakut and Dolgan

The language contact of Tungusic languages with Yakut and Dolgan is one of the common areas of examination of Altaic studies and Turcology. In this study, it has been tried to reveal holistically in which areas Evenki, the Tungus language that has the most influence on Yakut and Dolgan, has this influence. When necessary, data from other Tungusic languages, especially Even, were also used. As a result of the analysis, it was determined that the interaction took place mainly in the field of vocabulary, but there were also contact-induced changes in the fields of phonology and morphosyntax. With this study, 120 copies in Yakut and 54 copies in Dolgan were detected for the first time. When the data determined in previous studies are included in these figures, the number of Tungus copies in Yakut reaches 1200 and the number of copies in Dolgan reaches 440. In this study, this vocabulary has been evaluated by the principles of Code-Copying theory, modeled by Lars Johanson on Turkic languages.