Uyghur Turkic
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The Uyghur Turkic or Southeastern Common Turkic languages, also referred to as the Uyguric languages, are one six major branches of the Turkic language family
. It also has the oldest written records in any Turkic language. The following table is based upon the classification scheme presented by Lars Johanson (1998).
Turkic languages
The Turkic languages constitute a language family of at least thirty five languages, spoken by Turkic peoples across a vast area from Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean to Siberia and Western China, and are considered to be part of the proposed Altaic language family.Turkic languages are spoken...
. It also has the oldest written records in any Turkic language. The following table is based upon the classification scheme presented by Lars Johanson (1998).
| Proto-Turkic | Southeastern Common Turkic (Uyghuric languages) | West |
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Uyghur language Uyghur , formerly known as Eastern Turk, is a Turkic language with 8 to 11 million speakers, spoken primarily by the Uyghur people in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of Western China. Significant communities of Uyghur-speakers are located in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, and various other... Salar language Salar is a Turkic language spoken by the Salar people, who mainly live in the provinces of Qinghai and Gansu in China; some also live in Ghulja, Xinjiang... Chagatai language The Chagatai language is an extinct Turkic language which was once widely spoken in Central Asia, and remained the shared literary language there until the early twentieth century... (extinct) Aini language Äynu is a Turkic language spoken in western China known in various spelling as Aini, Aynu, Ainu, Eyni or by the Uyghur Abdal , in Russian sources Эйну́, Айну, Абдал, by the Chinese as Ainu. Some linguists call it a mixed language, having a mostly Turkic grammar, essentially Uyghur, but a mainly... Lop language Lop, also known as Lopnor or Lopnur is a language spoken in Lop County in Xinjiang, China.-Classification:Lop belongs to the Karluk branch of Turkic languages, along with Uyghur and Uzbek. Its status as a distinct language from Uyghur is disputed... Ili Turki language Ili Turki is a Turkic language spoken primarily in China. There were approximately 120 speakers of this language as of 1982.-Classification:... |
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