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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:
  • Oghuz group: Turkish, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Gagauz , Crimean Turkish , Qashqai, Selchuk
  • Khorasan group
• Northwestern languages: Kypchak group
  • Aralo-Caspian: Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Karakalpak , Nogai)
  • Ponto-Caspian: Karachay-Balkar , Kumyk , KaraimThe Karaim language is a Turkic language spoken by some ethnic Turkic adherents of Karaite Judaism in Lithuania and Ukraine. It has very few remaining active speakers. Jewish languages Turkic languages Karaite Judaism., Judeo-Crimean Tatar , Pecheneg (extinct), CumanCuman language was a Turkic language spoken by the Cumans similar to today's Crimean Tatar language. The Cumans were a nomad people originally from the steppes of Central Asia, that migrated toward Eastern Europe, settled in modern-day Romania, and after (extinct)
  • Uralian: TatarTatar language Tatar tele Tatarca is a very ancient Turkic language belonging to the Altaic branch of the Ural-Altaic family of languages. It is the official language of the Republic of Tatarstan, and is also spoken in European part of Russia, Siberia as, Bashkir, Chulym
• Northern languages:
  • Siberian group Altai, Khakas , Shor , Tuvin, Yakut
• Eastern languages:
  • Uighur-Chagatai group: Uzbek, Uighur, Chagatai
• Bolgar languages: (sometimes considered to be a separate Altaic subfamily)
  • Chuvash, Bolgar (extinct) , Khazar (extinct)

Various 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.

1 See also

• Orkhon script
• Turkic peoples
• Historical linguistics
• Language families and languages

2 External links

• Map of Turkic languages
• Dmoz.org/../Languages/Altaic/Turkic/

• Türk Dili

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