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The Oghur languages (also known as Oghur, Oghuric, Oghur-Turkic, or Lir-Turkic), are a separate branch of the Turkic language family
Turkic languages

The Turkic languages constitute a language family of some thirty languages, spoken by Turkic peoples across a vast area from Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean Sea to Siberia and Western China, and are sometimes considered to be part of the proposed Altaic languages....
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ntative subgrouping results in the following list of languages:



The languages of this branch are all extinct except for Chuvash.

Little is known about any precise interrelation of these different languages and it is a matter of dispute whether Chuvash might be the daughter language of any of these or just a sister branch (Johanson 1998).

Oghur languages are characterized by sound correspondences such as Oghuric l versus Common Turkic
Common Turkic

Common Turkic or Shaz Turkic is a taxon in the classification of the Turkic languages containing the following subgroups of Turkic languages:...
 š and Oghuric r versus Common Turkic
Common Turkic

Common Turkic or Shaz Turkic is a taxon in the classification of the Turkic languages containing the following subgroups of Turkic languages:...
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The Oghur languages (also known as Oghur, Oghuric, Oghur-Turkic, or Lir-Turkic), are a separate branch of the Turkic language family
Turkic languages

The Turkic languages constitute a language family of some thirty languages, spoken by Turkic peoples across a vast area from Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean Sea to Siberia and Western China, and are sometimes considered to be part of the proposed Altaic languages....
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Subgrouping

A tentative subgrouping results in the following list of languages:

  • Khazar
    Khazar language

    Khazar was the language spoken by the medieval Khazar tribe, a semi-nomadic Turkic peoples people from Central Asia. It is also referred to as Khazarian, Khazaric, or Khazari....
  • Eurasian Avar, or Turkic Avar
  • Bulgar
  • Hunnic
    Hunnic language

    The Hunnic language is the language spoken by the historic Huns. The literary records for this language are sparse, consisting of a few names and three words....
  • Chuvash
    Chuvash language

    Chuvash ) is a Turkic language spoken in central Russia, primarily in the Republic of Chuvashia and adjacent areas. It is the only surviving member of the Oghur branch of Turkic languages....


The languages of this branch are all extinct except for Chuvash.

Little is known about any precise interrelation of these different languages and it is a matter of dispute whether Chuvash might be the daughter language of any of these or just a sister branch (Johanson 1998).

Known linguistic features

The Oghur languages are characterized by sound correspondences such as Oghuric l versus Common Turkic
Common Turkic

Common Turkic or Shaz Turkic is a taxon in the classification of the Turkic languages containing the following subgroups of Turkic languages:...
 š and Oghuric r versus Common Turkic
Common Turkic

Common Turkic or Shaz Turkic is a taxon in the classification of the Turkic languages containing the following subgroups of Turkic languages:...
 z. Oghuric is sometimes referred to as Lir-Turkic and Common Turkic
Common Turkic

Common Turkic or Shaz Turkic is a taxon in the classification of the Turkic languages containing the following subgroups of Turkic languages:...
 as Shaz-Turkic. It is not clear when these two major types of Turkic can be assumed to have actually diverged (Vajda 2000).