Southwestern Turkic

E16295

Turkic language branch branch of language family

Southwestern Turkic is a major branch of the Turkic language family that includes languages such as Turkish, Azerbaijani, and Turkmen, primarily spoken across Anatolia, the Caucasus, and parts of Central and Western Asia.

Aliases (7)

Oghuz languages ×2
Common Turkic ×1
Oghuz (Southwestern Turkic) languages ×1
Oghuz Turkic ×1
Oghuz Turkic languages ×1
Old Turkic ×1
Qashqai Turkic ×1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Turkic language branch → branch of language family →
alsoKnownAs	Oghuz → Oghuz Turkic →
contrastsWith	Northeastern Turkic → Northwestern Turkic → Southeastern Turkic →
developedFrom	Proto-Turkic →
geographicDistribution	Anatolia → Caucasus → Central Asia → Iran → Iraq → Syria → Western Asia →
hasMajorLanguage	Azerbaijani → Turkish → Turkmen →
hasMember	Afshar → Azerbaijani → Crimean Tatar → Gagauz → Khorasani Turkic → Kumyk → Oghuz Uzbek → Qashqai → Salar → Turkish → Turkmen →
hasStandardLanguageCenter	Ashgabat for Turkmen → Baku for Azerbaijani → Istanbul for Turkish →
historicalOrigin	Oghuz tribes →
languageFamily	Turkic →
partOf	Turkic language family →
sharesFeature	lack of grammatical gender → rich case system → vowel harmony →
subclassOf	Oghuz languages →
subdivisionOf	Common Turkic →
typology	agglutinative language group →
usedAsOfficialLanguageIn	Azerbaijan → Turkey → Turkmenistan →
wordOrder	SOV →
writingSystem	Arabic script → Cyrillic script → Latin script →

Referenced by (9)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Balkan Turkish ("Oghuz Turkic languages") → Southwestern Turkic ("Oghuz languages") →	subclassOf
Southwestern Turkic ("Oghuz Turkic") →	alsoKnownAs
Tocharian languages ("Old Turkic") →	arealContactWith
Turkish language →	belongsToLanguageGroup
Qashqai ("Qashqai Turkic") →	hasAlternativeName
Salyr dialect ("Common Turkic") →	hasAncestor
Proto-Turkic ("Oghuz (Southwestern Turkic) languages") →	isAncestorOf
Cypriot Turkish ("Oghuz languages") →	subfamily