Turkic languages
The
Turkic languages are a group of closely related languages that are spoken by a variety of people distributed across a vast area from
Eastern Europe to
Siberia and Western
China. The Turkic languages are considered by some
linguists to be part of the
Altaic language family.
The Turkic language with the greatest number of speakers is
Turkish.
Turkic languages are
agglutinative and exhibit phonological
vowel harmony.
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: \n**Oghuz group: Turkish, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Gagauz, Crimean Turkish, Qashqai, Selchuk\n**Khorasan group\n* Northwestern languages: Kypchak group \n**Aralo-Caspian: Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Karakalpak, Nogai) \n**Ponto-Caspian: Karachay-Balkar, Kumyk, Karaim, Judeo-Crimean Tatar, Pecheneg (extinct), Kuman (extinct)\n**Uralian: Tatar, Bashkir, Chulym\n* Northern languages: \n**Siberian group Altai, Khakas, Shor, Tuvin, Yakut\n* Eastern languages: \n**Uighur-Chagatai group: Uzbek, Uighur \n* Bolgar languages: (sometimes considered to be a separate Altaic subfamily)\n**Chuvash, Bolgar (extinct) , Khazar (extinct) \nVarious elements have passed to Turkic languages especially from Chinese, Persian, Russian and Arabic languages, and various elements from Turkic languages have been carried as far as southeastern Asia, the northernmost territories of Russia, and even North America.
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