Khazar language

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The Khazar language was the now-extinct Turkic tongue once spoken by the Khazar Khaganate, belonging to the Oghur branch of the Turkic language family.

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instanceOf Oghur Turkic language
Turkic language
extinct language
associatedWith Khazars NERFINISHED
attestationLevel fragmentary
closelyRelatedTo Bulgar language (Oghur Turkic)
Chuvash language NERFINISHED
documentedIn Arabic sources
Byzantine Greek sources
Hebrew sources
Persian sources
era 10th century
7th century
8th century
9th century
early Middle Ages
evidenceType onomastic data
personal names in external sources
titles and ethnonyms in historical records
extinctionPeriod Middle Ages
glottologStatus poorly attested
influencedBy other Oghur Turkic varieties
ISOStatus no ISO 639-3 code
knownFrom ethnonyms and tribal names
place names in Khazar territory
titles such as "khagan" and "bek"
languageFamily Turkic languages NERFINISHED
mayHaveInfluenced early Volga Bulgar language
lexicon of neighboring peoples
possiblyInfluencedBy Caucasian languages NERFINISHED
Iranian languages NERFINISHED
Slavic languages NERFINISHED
primaryFunction administrative language of Khazar Khaganate
elite language of Khazar ruling class
region Lower Volga region NERFINISHED
North Caucasus NERFINISHED
Pontic–Caspian steppe NERFINISHED
religiousContext used among Jewish Khazars (hypothesized)
scholarlyDebate classification details within Oghur branch
extent of Hebrew lexical influence
sharesFeature r/l isogloss of Oghur Turkic
spokenIn Khazar Khaganate NERFINISHED
status extinct
subfamily Oghur branch
uncertainty grammar largely unknown
phonology not securely reconstructible
writingSystem Arabic script (possible, not well attested)
Hebrew alphabet NERFINISHED
runiform script (hypothesized)

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Oghur languages memberLanguage Khazar language