Turkic languages

E37102
Altaic language group (disputed) language family

The Turkic languages are a family of closely related languages spoken across a vast area from Eastern Europe and Anatolia through Central Asia to Siberia and Western China, including major languages such as Turkish, Azerbaijani, Uzbek, and Kazakh.

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All labels observed (7)

Label Occurrences
Turkic languages canonical 131
Turkic 18
Turkic language family 14

Statements (89)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Altaic language group (disputed) ⓘ
language family ⓘ
areGeneticallyRelatedTo each other ⓘ
areInfluencedBy Arabic ⓘ
surface form: Arabic (lexicon)

Mongolic languages (contact) ⓘ
Persian language ⓘ
surface form: Persian (lexicon)

Russian (lexicon) ⓘ
areNotGeneticallyRelatedTo Indo-European languages ⓘ
Semitic languages ⓘ
areOfficialLanguageFamilyOf several sovereign states ⓘ
areSometimesGroupedWith Mongolic languages ⓘ
surface form: Mongolic languages (Altaic hypothesis)

Tungusic languages (Altaic hypothesis) ⓘ
areSpokenIn Afghanistan ⓘ
Anatolia ⓘ
Azerbaijan ⓘ
Caucasus ⓘ
Central Asia ⓘ
Eastern Europe ⓘ
Iran ⓘ
Iraq ⓘ
Kazakhstan ⓘ
Kyrgyzstan ⓘ
Middle East ⓘ
Mongolia ⓘ
Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus ⓘ
surface form: Northern Cyprus

Russia ⓘ
Siberia ⓘ
Syria ⓘ
Turkey ⓘ
Turkmenistan ⓘ
Uzbekistan ⓘ
Volga region ⓘ
surface form: Volga-Ural region

Western China ⓘ
Xinjiang ⓘ
areStudiedInDiscipline Turkology ⓘ
areSubjectOfDebate Altaic hypothesis validity ⓘ
areWrittenIn Arabic script (some languages) ⓘ
Cyrillic script (many languages) ⓘ
Latin script (many languages) ⓘ
hasBranch Arghu (Khalaj) branch ⓘ
Karluk languages ⓘ
Kipchak languages ⓘ
Oghur languages ⓘ
Oghuz Turkic language ⓘ
surface form: Oghuz languages

Siberian Turkic languages ⓘ
hasCharacteristic evidentiality markers in many members ⓘ
extensive agglutination ⓘ
lack of grammatical gender ⓘ
possessive suffixes ⓘ
postpositions instead of prepositions ⓘ
rich case system ⓘ
use of suffixes for tense and aspect ⓘ
vowel harmony ⓘ
hasMajorLanguage Altai Mountains ⓘ
surface form: Altai

Azerbaijani language ⓘ
surface form: Azerbaijani

Bashkir ⓘ
Chuvash ⓘ
Crimean Tatar language ⓘ
surface form: Crimean Tatar

Dolgan ⓘ
Gagauz ⓘ
Karaim language ⓘ
surface form: Karaim

Karakalpak ⓘ
Kazakh language ⓘ
surface form: Kazakh

Khakas ⓘ
Khalaj ⓘ
Kumyk ⓘ
Kyrgyz ⓘ
Nogai ⓘ
Salar ⓘ
Shor ⓘ
Tatar language ⓘ
surface form: Tatar

Turkish ⓘ
Turkmen language ⓘ
surface form: Turkmen

Tuvan ⓘ
Uyghurs ⓘ
surface form: Uyghur

Uzbek ⓘ
Yakut ⓘ
hasProtoLanguage Proto-Turkic ⓘ
surface form: Proto-Turkic language
hasWritingSystemType alphabetic ⓘ
haveEarliestAttestations Orkhon inscriptions ⓘ
haveEarliestAttestationsCentury 8th century ⓘ
haveEstimatedNumberOfSpeakers over 150 million ⓘ
haveHistoricalScript Old Turkic script ⓘ
Old Uyghur alphabet ⓘ
surface form: Uyghur script

Old Turkic script ⓘ
surface form: runiform Old Turkic alphabet
largestLanguageBySpeakers Turkish language ⓘ
surface form: Turkish
subclassOf SOV word order languages ⓘ
agglutinative languages ⓘ
typicalBasicWordOrder subject–object–verb ⓘ

Referenced by (167)

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

Medieval Greek → influencedBy → Turkic languages ⓘ
Urdu language → hasPhonologicalInfluenceFrom → Turkic languages ⓘ
subject surface form: Urdu
Crimean Tatars → languageFamily → Turkic languages ⓘ
Altaic languages (proposed) → hasSubgroup → Turkic languages ⓘ
Altaic languages (proposed) → coreMembers → Turkic languages ⓘ
Hungarian language → hasLoanwordsFrom → Turkic languages ⓘ
Azerbaijani language → languageFamily → Turkic languages ⓘ
Turkmen language → languageFamily → Turkic languages ⓘ
Cypriot Turkish → languageFamily → Turkic languages ⓘ
Southwestern Turkic → partOf → Turkic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Turkic language family
Southwestern Turkic → subdivisionOf → Turkic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Common Turkic
Ottoman Turkish → partOf → Turkic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Turkic language family
Ottoman Turkish → lexicalSourceLanguage → Turkic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Turkic
North Caucasus → hasLanguageFamily → Turkic languages ⓘ
South Caucasus → hasLanguageFamily → Turkic languages ⓘ
Kazakh language → family → Turkic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Turkic language family
Uzbek → languageFamily → Turkic languages ⓘ
Tatar language → family → Turkic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Turkic language family
Hazaragi → hasInfluenceFrom → Turkic languages ⓘ
Hazaragi → hasLoanwordsFrom → Turkic languages ⓘ
Hazaragi → hasPhonologicalInfluenceFrom → Turkic languages ⓘ
Azerbaijan → nationalLanguageFamily → Turkic languages ⓘ
Suhrawardiyya → hasLanguage → Turkic languages ⓘ
Turks → languageFamily → Turkic languages ⓘ
Uyghur language (historically) → languageFamily → Turkic languages ⓘ
Lashkari Zaban → lexicalInfluenceFrom → Turkic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Turkic
Turkic world → hasLinguisticFamily → Turkic languages ⓘ
Crimean Tatar language → languageFamily → Turkic languages ⓘ
Kipchak languages → subclassOf → Turkic languages ⓘ
Uzbeks → languageFamily → Turkic languages ⓘ
Chuvash Republic → ethnolinguisticHeritage → Turkic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Turkic
Mongolic languages → relatedTo → Turkic languages ⓘ
Tungusic languages → relatedTo → Turkic languages ⓘ
Transeurasian languages → includes → Turkic languages ⓘ
Teke dialect → languageFamily → Turkic languages ⓘ
Uyghurs → languageFamily → Turkic languages ⓘ
Balkan Sprachbund → hasLanguageFamily → Turkic languages ⓘ
Göklen dialect → languageFamily → Turkic languages ⓘ
Saryk dialect → languageFamily → Turkic languages ⓘ
Iraqi Turkmen → languageFamily → Turkic languages ⓘ
Salyr dialect → languageFamily → Turkic languages ⓘ
Khan → hasLinguisticOrigin → Turkic languages ⓘ
Chagatai Turkic → partOf → Turkic languages ⓘ
this entity surface form: Turkic language family
Qutlugh Nigar Khanum → languageUsed → Turkic languages ⓘ
Mirza → usedInLanguage → Turkic languages ⓘ
Cumans → languageFamily → Turkic languages ⓘ
Gustaf John Ramstedt → fieldOfWork → Turkic languages ⓘ
Gustaf John Ramstedt → languageOfWorkOrName → Turkic languages ⓘ
Chuvash → languageFamily → Turkic languages ⓘ
Khalji dynasty → language → Turkic languages ⓘ