Proto-Turkic

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Proto-Turkic is the reconstructed common ancestor language of all Turkic languages, from which branches like Southwestern Turkic later evolved.

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Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form Occurrences
Proto-Turkic language 3

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf ancestor of Turkic languages
proto-language
reconstructed language
approximateTimeDepth 1st millennium BCE–1st millennium CE (approximate scholarly range)
attestation unattested
classificationStatus generally accepted by specialists as common ancestor of Turkic languages
descendedInto Southeastern Turkic
surface form: Common Turkic

Oghur Turkic
geographicalAssociation Central Asia
surface form: Central Eurasia (hypothetical homeland)
glottologStatus reconstructed language entry only
hasCaseSystem true
hasConsonantHarmony partially (assimilatory processes reconstructed)
hasEvidentiality evidential distinctions reconstructed in verbal morphology
hasNounCases true
hasNumeralSystem decimal numeral system (reconstructed)
hasReconstruction reconstructed core vocabulary
reconstructed nominal morphology
reconstructed phoneme inventory
reconstructed verbal morphology
hasSubgroupSplit Common Turkic vs Oghur Turkic
hasVerbalAspect grammatical aspect reconstructed in verb system
hasVowelHarmony true
influenced Old Turkic language
surface form: Old Turkic
isAncestorOf Karluk languages
Kipchak languages
Oghur languages
surface form: Oghur (Lir-Turkic) languages

Southwestern Turkic
surface form: Oghuz (Southwestern Turkic) languages

Siberian Turkic languages
Turkic languages
ISO639Status none (not a directly attested language)
languageFamily Turkic languages
surface form: Turkic
lexicalFeature basic vocabulary preserved widely across modern Turkic languages
morphologicalType agglutinative language
phonologicalFeature absence of phonemic voiced stops in native roots (reconstructed *b, *d, *g often positional)
backness vowel harmony
contrast between *r and *z in later branches (Oghur vs Common Turkic reflexes)
rounding vowel harmony (partially reconstructed)
vowel harmony
possibleContactWith Proto-Mongolic (according to some hypotheses)
Tungusic languages
surface form: Proto-Tungusic (according to some hypotheses)
reconstructedBy comparative method
reconstructionBasedOn Common Turkic languages
Oghur languages
surface form: Oghur Turkic languages
researchField Turkology
historical linguistics
studiedBy Turkologists
historical linguists
wordOrder SOV (subject–object–verb)
writingSystem none (unattested; reconstructed)

Referenced by (5)

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

Kipchak languages developedFrom Proto-Turkic
this entity surface form: Proto-Turkic language
Southwestern Turkic developedFrom Proto-Turkic
Salyr dialect hasAncestor Proto-Turkic
this entity surface form: Proto-Turkic language
Turkic languages hasProtoLanguage Proto-Turkic
this entity surface form: Proto-Turkic language