Turkic language
Turkic languages are a group of closely related languages that are used by a variety of people distributed in a vast area from Eastern Europe to Siberia and Western China.
Turkic languages are agglutinative and also have special phonetic feature called synharmonism.
Though various different Turkic tribes and their languages have mixed with each other throughout centuries, making a classification extremely difficult, a very simplified classification could be as follows:
- Southwestern languages:
- Northwestern languages: Kypchak group
- Aralo-Caspian: Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Karakalpak, Nogai)
- Ponto-Caspian: Karachay-Balkar, Kumyk, Karaim, Judeo-Crimean Tatar, Pecheneg (extinct), Kuman (extinct)
- Uralian: Tatar, Bashkir, Chulym
- Northern languages:
- Eastern languages:
- Bolgar languages: (sometimes considered to be a separate altaic language family)
Various elements have passed to Turkic languages especially from Chinese, Persian and Arabic languages and various elements from Turkic languages have been carried as far as Southeastern Asia, Northernmost territories of Russia and even Northern America.
See also: Old Turkic alphabet, Turkic peoples, Chagatai language
Referenced By
Ainu language | Atabeg | Chagatai language | Cyrillic | Cyrillic Alphabet | Kabardino-Balkaria | Russian alphabet | Sakha | Sakha Republic | Tannu-Tuva | Tannu Tuva | Turkmen language | Tuva | Tuva Republic | Tuvinian People's Republic | Tyva | Uighur language | Uygur language | Uzbeg | Uzbegs | Uzbek | Uzbekis | Uzbeks | Uzbeq | Yakutia
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