Proto-Turkic
E96950
Proto-Turkic is the reconstructed common ancestor language of all Turkic languages, from which branches like Southwestern Turkic later evolved.
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.
this entity surface form:
Proto-Turkic language
this entity surface form:
Proto-Turkic language
this entity surface form:
Proto-Turkic language