Old Turkic (runiform and Uyghur-script traditions)

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Turkic language historical language

Old Turkic (runiform and Uyghur-script traditions) is the earliest attested stage of the Turkic languages, known from inscriptions and manuscripts written in the Old Turkic runiform (Orkhon) and Uyghur scripts across Central Asia and surrounding regions.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form	Occurrences
Old Turkic	1

Statements (53)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Turkic language ⓘ historical language ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Old Turkic language ⓘ surface form: Göktürk language Old Turkic language ⓘ surface form: Old Turkic Old Turkic language ⓘ surface form: Old Uyghur language Old Turkic language ⓘ surface form: Orkhon Turkic
attestedIn	Central Asia ⓘ Dunhuang ⓘ Gansu Province ⓘ surface form: Gansu Mongolia ⓘ Turpan ⓘ surface form: Turfan Xinjiang ⓘ inscriptions ⓘ manuscripts ⓘ paper manuscripts ⓘ stone stelae ⓘ wooden documents ⓘ
earlyFormOf	Turkic languages ⓘ
followedBy	Chagatai Turkic ⓘ surface form: Middle Turkic
follows	Proto-Turkic ⓘ
hasFeature	lack of grammatical gender ⓘ rich case system ⓘ vowel harmony ⓘ
ISO639-3Code	otk ⓘ
languageBranch	Common Turkic ⓘ
languageFamily	Turkic ⓘ
notableCorpus	Old Uyghur Buddhist texts ⓘ Old Uyghur Christian texts ⓘ Manichaean script ⓘ surface form: Old Uyghur Manichaean texts Orkhon inscriptions ⓘ Talasp inscriptions ⓘ Turfan manuscripts ⓘ Talasp inscriptions ⓘ surface form: Yenisei inscriptions
partOf	Oghuric–Common Turkic split period ⓘ
scriptTradition	Uyghur-script tradition ⓘ runiform tradition ⓘ
standardForm	Old Uyghur standard ⓘ Old Turkic script ⓘ surface form: Orkhon standard
subclassOf	Southeastern Turkic ⓘ surface form: Common Turkic
timePeriod	10th century ⓘ 11th century ⓘ 7th century ⓘ 8th century ⓘ 9th century ⓘ
typology	agglutinative language ⓘ
usedBy	Göktürk Khaganate ⓘ Uyghur Khaganate ⓘ surface form: Qocho Uyghur Kingdom Göktürk Khaganate ⓘ surface form: Second Turkic Khaganate Uyghur Khaganate ⓘ
wordOrder	SOV ⓘ
writingDirection	right-to-left ⓘ
writingSystem	Old Turkic script ⓘ surface form: Old Turkic runiform script Old Uyghur alphabet ⓘ surface form: Old Uyghur script

Referenced by (2)

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

Old Anatolian Turkish → distinguishedFrom → Old Turkic (runiform and Uyghur-script traditions) ⓘ

Old Anatolian Turkish → follows → Old Turkic (runiform and Uyghur-script traditions) ⓘ

this entity surface form: Old Turkic