Karluk languages

E237314

Turkic language subgroup

Karluk languages are a subgroup of the Turkic language family that includes major Central Asian languages such as Uzbek and Uyghur.

Try in SPARQL Jump to: Surface forms Disambiguation Statements Elicitation Referenced by

All labels observed (5)

Label	Occurrences
Karluk languages canonical	3
Karluk Turkic language	2
Karluk Turkic languages	1
Karluk language	1
Proto-Karluk	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2101576 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Karluk languages
Context triple: [Turkic languages, hasBranch, Karluk languages]

A. Hokan languages
Hokan languages are a proposed but controversial grouping of several Native American language families of the western United States and Mexico that share certain typological and lexical similarities.
B. Wakashan languages
The Wakashan languages are an indigenous language family of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America, traditionally spoken by several First Nations peoples in what is now British Columbia and northwestern Washington.
C. Tungusic languages
Tungusic languages are a family of languages spoken in eastern Siberia, northeastern China, and parts of the Russian Far East, including languages such as Evenki and Manchu.
D. Karkar-Yuri languages
The Karkar-Yuri languages are a small group of closely related Papuan languages spoken primarily on Karkar Island and nearby areas of Papua New Guinea.
E. Tongic languages
The Tongic languages are a small subgroup of Polynesian languages that includes Tongan and Niuean, spoken primarily in Tonga and Niue.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Karluk languages
Target entity description: Karluk languages are a subgroup of the Turkic language family that includes major Central Asian languages such as Uzbek and Uyghur.

A. Hokan languages
Hokan languages are a proposed but controversial grouping of several Native American language families of the western United States and Mexico that share certain typological and lexical similarities.
B. Wakashan languages
The Wakashan languages are an indigenous language family of the Pacific Northwest Coast of North America, traditionally spoken by several First Nations peoples in what is now British Columbia and northwestern Washington.
C. Tungusic languages
Tungusic languages are a family of languages spoken in eastern Siberia, northeastern China, and parts of the Russian Far East, including languages such as Evenki and Manchu.
D. Karkar-Yuri languages
The Karkar-Yuri languages are a small group of closely related Papuan languages spoken primarily on Karkar Island and nearby areas of Papua New Guinea.
E. Tongic languages
The Tongic languages are a small subgroup of Polynesian languages that includes Tongan and Niuean, spoken primarily in Tonga and Niue.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Turkic language subgroup ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Kipchak languages ⓘ surface form: Qarluq languages Southeastern Turkic ⓘ surface form: Southeastern Common Turkic
branchOf	Common Turkic ⓘ surface form: Common Turkic languages
contrastedWith	Kipchak languages ⓘ Oghuz Turkic language ⓘ surface form: Oghuz languages North Siberian Turkic languages ⓘ surface form: Siberian Turkic languages
developedFrom	Common Turkic ⓘ
geographicDistribution	Afghanistan ⓘ Central Asia ⓘ China ⓘ Kazakhstan ⓘ Kyrgyzstan ⓘ northern Pakistan ⓘ surface form: Northern Pakistan Tajikistan ⓘ Turkmenistan ⓘ Uzbekistan ⓘ Xinjiang ⓘ surface form: Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region
hasMajorStandardVariety	Uyghur language ⓘ surface form: Standard Uyghur Uzbek ⓘ surface form: Standard Uzbek
hasMember	Dolgan-Uyghur varieties ⓘ Ili Turki language ⓘ Lop Nur dialects ⓘ Uyghur language ⓘ Uzbek ⓘ surface form: Uzbek language Äynu language ⓘ
hasWritingTraditionSince	Karakhanid era ⓘ
historicalAncestor	Karakhanid language ⓘ Old Turkic language ⓘ surface form: Old Uyghur language
influencedBy	Arabic ⓘ surface form: Arabic language Chinese language ⓘ Persian language ⓘ Russian language ⓘ
linguisticFeature	SOV basic word order ⓘ agglutinative morphology ⓘ extensive case system ⓘ lack of grammatical gender ⓘ use of postpositions rather than prepositions ⓘ vowel harmony with reductions in some members ⓘ
namedAfter	Karluk tribes ⓘ
partOf	Turkic languages ⓘ surface form: Turkic language family
subclassOf	Turkic languages ⓘ
timeDepth	medieval period origin ⓘ
usedIn	Islamic scholarship in Central Asia ⓘ literature of Central Asia ⓘ
writingSystemUsed	Arabic alphabet ⓘ surface form: Arabic script Cyrillic script ⓘ Latin script ⓘ Perso-Arabic script ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (8)

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

Turkic languages → hasBranch → Karluk languages ⓘ

Chagatai Turkic → subclassOf → Karluk languages ⓘ

this entity surface form: Karluk Turkic language

Proto-Turkic → isAncestorOf → Karluk languages ⓘ

Oghuz Turkic language → distinguishedFrom → Karluk languages ⓘ

this entity surface form: Karluk Turkic languages

Turkic peoples → hasLanguageFamily → Karluk languages ⓘ

Karluk branch → hasProtoLanguage → Karluk languages ⓘ

this entity surface form: Proto-Karluk

Modern Uyghur → subclassOf → Karluk languages ⓘ

this entity surface form: Karluk language

Çağatay Türkçesi → subclassOf → Karluk languages ⓘ