Turki

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Turki is a historical Turkic language associated with Central Asian and Mughal courts, used as a literary and administrative tongue across various Turkic-speaking regions.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
Turki canonical 6

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Statements (46)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Turkic language
historical language
closelyRelatedTo Chagatai
Qipchaq Uzbek
surface form: Old Uzbek
domain bureaucracy
court culture
literature
function interregional written lingua franca
hasAlternativeName Eastern Turki
Chagatai Turkic
surface form: Turki Chagatai

Turki Turkic
historicalPeriod early modern period
late medieval period
influencedBy Arabic
Persian
other Turkic varieties
languageFamily Turkic languages
surface form: Turkic
languageType agglutinative
morphology suffixing
partOf Islamicate literary tradition in Central Asia
region Ferghana Valley
Khorasan
Mughal Empire (in much of the territory)
surface form: Mughal North India

Transoxiana
scriptDirection right-to-left
status no longer spoken as a native language
subfamily Karluk branch
successorLanguage modern Uyghur
modern Uzbek
usedAs administrative language
court language
literary language
usedBy Central Asian literati
Mughal court
surface form: Mughal court elites
usedFor historical chronicles
poetry
prose works
royal decrees
usedIn Central Asia
Chagatai Khanate regions
Mughal Empire (in much of the territory)
surface form: Mughal Empire

Timurid court
surface form: Timurid courts

various Turkic-speaking regions
wordOrder SOV (subject–object–verb)
writingSystem Arabic alphabet
surface form: Arabic script

Perso-Arabic script

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Referenced by (6)

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