Southwestern Turkic

E16295

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.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Turkic language branch
branch of language family
alsoKnownAs Oghuz
Southwestern Turkic
surface form: Oghuz Turkic
contrastsWith Northeastern Turkic
Kipchak languages
surface form: Northwestern Turkic

Southeastern Turkic
developedFrom Proto-Turkic
geographicDistribution Anatolia
Caucasus
Central Asia
Iran
Iraq
Syria
Middle East
surface form: Western Asia
hasMajorLanguage Azerbaijani language
surface form: Azerbaijani

Turkish
Turkmen language
surface form: Turkmen
hasMember Nader Shah
surface form: Afshar

Azerbaijani language
surface form: Azerbaijani

Crimean Tatars
surface form: Crimean Tatar

Gagauz
Khorasani Turkic
Chuvash
surface form: Kumyk

Oghuz Uzbek
Qashqai
Salar
Turkish
Turkmens
surface form: Turkmen
hasStandardLanguageCenter Ashgabat for Turkmen
Baku
surface form: Baku for Azerbaijani

Istanbul for Turkish
historicalOrigin Oghuz
surface form: Oghuz tribes
languageFamily Turkic
partOf Turkic languages
surface form: Turkic language family
sharesFeature lack of grammatical gender
rich case system
vowel harmony
subclassOf Southwestern Turkic self-linksurface differs
surface form: Oghuz languages
subdivisionOf Turkic languages
surface form: Common Turkic
typology agglutinative language group
usedAsOfficialLanguageIn Azerbaijan
Turkey
Turkmenistan
wordOrder SOV
writingSystem Arabic script
Cyrillic script
Latin script

Referenced by (14)

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Turkish language belongsToLanguageGroup Southwestern Turkic
Tocharian languages arealContactWith Southwestern Turkic
this entity surface form: Old Turkic
Balkan Turkish subclassOf Southwestern Turkic
this entity surface form: Oghuz Turkic languages
Cypriot Turkish subfamily Southwestern Turkic
this entity surface form: Oghuz languages
Southwestern Turkic alsoKnownAs Southwestern Turkic
this entity surface form: Oghuz Turkic
Southwestern Turkic subclassOf Southwestern Turkic self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Oghuz languages
Salyr dialect hasAncestor Southwestern Turkic
this entity surface form: Common Turkic
Qashqai hasAlternativeName Southwestern Turkic
this entity surface form: Qashqai Turkic
Proto-Turkic isAncestorOf Southwestern Turkic
this entity surface form: Oghuz (Southwestern Turkic) languages
Oghuz Turkic language hasSubgroup Southwestern Turkic
this entity surface form: Southern Oghuz languages
Qashqai people language Southwestern Turkic
this entity surface form: Qashqai Turkic
Qašqāʾī language Southwestern Turkic
this entity surface form: Qashqai Turkic
Qashqai Turkish hasAlternativeName Southwestern Turkic
this entity surface form: Qashqai Turkic
Qashqai confederation language Southwestern Turkic
this entity surface form: Qashqai Turkic