Chagatai Turkic

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Turkic language historical language literary language

Chagatai Turkic is a historical Turkic literary language that served as a major cultural and administrative lingua franca in Central Asia, especially under Turkic-Mongol and Timurid rule.

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Observed surface forms (7)

Surface form Occurrences
Chagatai 4
Chagatai language 4
Chagatai Turkish 2

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Turkic language ⓘ
historical language ⓘ
literary language ⓘ
hasAlternativeName Chagatai Turkic ⓘ
surface form: Chagatai language

Chagatai Turkic ⓘ
surface form: Jagatai Turkic

Çağatay Türkçesi ⓘ
hasInfluenceFrom Arabic language ⓘ
Mongolic languages ⓘ
Persian language ⓘ
hasLexicalSource Arabic loanwords ⓘ
Mongolian loanwords ⓘ
Persian loanwords ⓘ
hasNotableAuthor Ali-Shir Nava'i ⓘ
Babur ⓘ
hasNotableWork Baburnama ⓘ
Muhakamat al-Lughatayn ⓘ
historicalPeriod early modern era ⓘ
medieval era ⓘ
influenced Modern Uyghur ⓘ
Modern Uzbek ⓘ
Turkic literary traditions in Central Asia ⓘ
languageBranch Karluk branch of Turkic ⓘ
namedAfter Chagatai Khan ⓘ
partOf Turkic languages ⓘ
surface form: Turkic language family
predecessorOf Oghuz Uzbek ⓘ
surface form: Old Uzbek

literary Uyghur ⓘ
standardFor Central Asian Turkic literary tradition ⓘ
status classical literary language ⓘ
extinct as a spoken language ⓘ
subclassOf Common Turkic language ⓘ
Karluk languages ⓘ
surface form: Karluk Turkic language
usedAs administrative language ⓘ
cultural language ⓘ
lingua franca in Central Asia ⓘ
usedBy Central Asian literati ⓘ
Timurid miniature painting ⓘ
surface form: Timurid court

administrative elites in Central Asia ⓘ
usedFor bureaucratic documents ⓘ
historiography ⓘ
poetry ⓘ
usedInPeriod Timurid dynasty ⓘ
surface form: Timurid Empire

Chagatai Khanate ⓘ
surface form: Turkic-Mongol states of Central Asia
usedInRegion Central Asia ⓘ
Khwarezm ⓘ
Khorasan ⓘ
surface form: Mawarannahr

Transoxiana ⓘ
writingSystem Arabic script ⓘ
Perso-Arabic script ⓘ

Referenced by (22)

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

this entity surface form: Chagatai language
this entity surface form: Karluk Turkic languages
Kokand Khanate → commonLanguage → Chagatai Turkic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Middle Turkic
Chagatai Turkic → hasAlternativeName → Chagatai Turkic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Chagatai language
Chagatai Turkic → hasAlternativeName → Chagatai Turkic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Jagatai Turkic
Timurid dynasty → hasLanguage → Chagatai Turkic ⓘ
Babur → language → Chagatai Turkic ⓘ
Baburnama → language → Chagatai Turkic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Chagatai Turkish
Chagatai Khanate → language → Chagatai Turkic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Chagatai language
Giray → language → Chagatai Turkic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Chagatai
Khanate of Bukhara → language → Chagatai Turkic ⓘ
Khanate of Khiva → language → Chagatai Turkic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Chagatai
Umar Sheikh Mirza II → language → Chagatai Turkic ⓘ
Abu Sa'id Mirza → languageOfCourt → Chagatai Turkic ⓘ
Timur → languageOfCourt → Chagatai Turkic ⓘ
Ahmet Yesevi → languageOfWork → Chagatai Turkic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Chagatai
Aisha Sultan Begum → languageUsed → Chagatai Turkic ⓘ
Qutlugh Nigar Khanum → languageUsed → Chagatai Turkic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Chagatai
Baburnama → originalLanguage → Chagatai Turkic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Chagatai Turkish
Bukharan Jews → traditionalLanguage → Chagatai Turkic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Bukharic
Turco-Mongol → usedLanguageFamily → Chagatai Turkic ⓘ
this entity surface form: Chagatai language