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Turkic languages
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[?])
- Uralian:
Tatar, Bashkir[?], Chulym[?]
- Northern languages:
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Siberian group Altai[?], Khakas[?], Shor[?],
Tuvin[?], Yakut[?]
- Eastern languages:
- Uighur-Chagatai group:
Uzbek, Uighur[?]
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:
Turkic peoples
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