Oghur languages

E233992

branch of Turkic languages language group

Oghur languages are an early, now mostly extinct branch of the Turkic language family, historically spoken by steppe peoples such as the Bulgars and Khazars and represented today primarily by Chuvash.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Oghur languages canonical	2
Oghur (Lir-Turkic) languages	1
Oghur Turkic languages	1

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	branch of Turkic languages ⓘ language group ⓘ
alternativeName	Oghur Turkic ⓘ surface form: Bulgar Turkic Lir-Turkic languages ⓘ Oğuric languages ⓘ
associatedPeople	Bulgars ⓘ surface form: Danube Bulgars Khazar Khaganate population ⓘ Bulgars ⓘ surface form: Volga Bulgars
attestation	sparsely attested in historical records ⓘ
distinctiveFeature	lexical differences from Common Turkic ⓘ phonological divergence from Common Turkic ⓘ r/l correspondence with Common Turkic z/š ⓘ sound change of Common Turkic z to r ⓘ sound change of Common Turkic š to l ⓘ
extinctionCause	language shift to other Turkic and Slavic languages ⓘ
geographicDistribution	Carpathian Basin ⓘ surface form: Pannonian Basin Pontic–Caspian steppe ⓘ Volga region ⓘ
hasDescendant	Chuvash ⓘ surface form: Chuvash language
higherFamily	Altaic languages (proposed) ⓘ surface form: Altaic (proposed, not widely accepted)
historicallySpokenBy	Bulgars ⓘ Khazar Khaganate ⓘ surface form: Khazars Onogurs ⓘ surface form: Kutrigurs Onogurs ⓘ Sabirs ⓘ Onogurs ⓘ surface form: Utigurs
historicalStatus	mostly extinct ⓘ
influencedBy	Iranian languages (lexical influence) ⓘ Slavic languages (in later stages) ⓘ
ISOClassification	treated as part of Turkic in ISO 639 ⓘ
languageFamily	Turkic languages ⓘ surface form: Turkic language family
linguisticTypology	agglutinative ⓘ
memberLanguage	Bulgar language ⓘ Chuvash ⓘ surface form: Chuvash language Hunnic language (hypothetical affiliation) ⓘ Khazar language ⓘ
morphologicalFeature	vowel harmony (partially preserved in Chuvash) ⓘ
notableLivingRepresentative	Chuvash ⓘ surface form: Chuvash language
relationshipToCommonTurkic	sister branch ⓘ
researchField	Turkology ⓘ
statusOfChuvash	only surviving Oghur language ⓘ
subclassOf	Turkic languages ⓘ
timePeriod	early medieval period ⓘ
wordOrder	subject–object–verb ⓘ
writingSystem	Greek alphabet (for some Bulgar inscriptions) ⓘ runiform scripts (historically, sparsely attested) ⓘ

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Turkic languages → hasBranch → Oghur languages ⓘ

Proto-Turkic → isAncestorOf → Oghur languages ⓘ

this entity surface form: Oghur (Lir-Turkic) languages

Proto-Turkic → reconstructionBasedOn → Oghur languages ⓘ

this entity surface form: Oghur Turkic languages

Turkic peoples → hasLanguageFamily → Oghur languages ⓘ