Karluk languages
Karluk (Qarluq) | |
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Southeastern Turkic | |
Geographic distribution | Central Asia |
Linguistic classification |
Turkic
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Early form | |
Subdivisions |
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Glottolog |
None uygh1240 (Eastern Karluk (Uyghur))[1] uzbe1247 (Western Karluk (Uzbek))[2] |
Western Karluk Eastern Karluk
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The Karluk languages (also known as the Qarluq or Southeastern Common Turkic languages) are a sub-branch of the Turkic language family that developed from the varieties once spoken by Karluks.[3]
Many Middle Turkic works were written in these languages. The language of the Kara-Khanid Khanate was known as Turki, Ferghani, Kashgari, or Khaqani. The language of the Chagatai Khanate was the Chagatai language.
Karluk Turkic was spoken in the Kara-Khanid Khanate, Chagatai Khanate, Yarkent Khanate, and the Uzbek speaking Khanate of Bukhara, Emirate of Bukhara, Khanate of Khiva, and Kokand Khanate.
Grouping
Proto-Turkic | Common Turkic | Karluk | Western | |
Eastern |
List of languages
- Uzbek – spoken by the Uzbeks; approximately 27 million speakers
- Uyghur – spoken by the Uyghurs; approximately 10 million speakers
- Äynu – spoken by the Äynu; approximately 6,600 speakers (2000)
- Ili Turki – moribund language spoken by Ili Turkis, who are legally recognized as a subgroup of Uzbeks; 120 speakers, and decreasing (1980)
- Chagatai – extinct language which was once widely spoken in Central Asia, and remained the shared literary language there until the early 20th century.
- Karakhanid – literary language of the Chagatai Khanate that is considered a later form of Middle Turkic.
References
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Eastern Karluk (Uyghur)". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017). "Western Karluk (Uzbek)". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.
- ↑ 1000 languages: living, endangered, and lost. By Peter K. Austin
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