List of Turkic languages

The Turkic languages are a group of languages spoken across Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and Siberia. Turkic languages are spoken as native languages by some 170 million people.

Turkic languages by subfamily

The number of speakers derived from statistics or estimates (2019) and were rounded:[1] [2]

Relative numbers of speakers of Turkic languages (2007)
NumberBranchLanguagesStatusNative SpeakersMajorityMain Writing System
1 Oghuz languages8Normal108,000,000 TurkeyLatin
2 Karluk languages4Normal38,000,000 UzbekistanLatin
3 Kipchak languages12Normal31,300,000 KazakhstanLatin
4 Siberian Turkic languages9Vulnerable800,000 RussiaCyrillic
5 Arghu Turkic language1Vulnerable20,000 IranPerso-Arabic
6 Oghur languages1Vulnerable1,200,000 RussiaCyrillic
Total Turkic languages35Normal179,000,000 TurkeyLatin

Turkic languages by native speakers

The Turkic languages are a language family of at least 35 [3] documented languages, spoken by the Turkic peoples. The number of speakers derived from statistics or estimates (2019) and were rounded:[1] [2]

NumberNameBranchStatusNative SpeakersMain CountryMain Writing System
1 Turkish languageOghuz languagesNormal76,000,000 TurkeyLatin
2 Uzbek languageKarluk languagesNormal27,000,000 UzbekistanLatin
3 Azerbaijani languageOghuz languagesNormal23,000,000 AzerbaijanLatin
4 Kazakh languageKipchak languagesNormal14,000,000 KazakhstanLatin
5 Uyghur languageKarluk languagesNormal11,000,000 ChinaPerso-Arabic
6 Turkmen languageOghuz languagesNormal7,000,000 TurkmenistanLatin
7 Tatar languageKipchak languagesNormal5,500,000 RussiaCyrillic
8 Kyrgyz languageKipchak languagesNormal5,000,000 KyrgyzstanCyrillic
9 Bashkir languageKipchak languagesVulnerable1,500,000 RussiaCyrillic
10 Chuvash languageOghur languagesVulnerable1,200,000 RussiaCyrillic
11 Qashqai languageOghuz languagesNormal1,000,000 IranPerso-Arabic
12 Khorasani Turkic languageOghuz languagesVulnerable1,000,000 IranPerso-Arabic
13 Karakalpak languageKipchak languagesNormal650,000 UzbekistanLatin
14 Crimean Tatar languageKipchak languagesSeverely endangered600,000 UkraineLatin
15 Kumyk languageKipchak languagesVulnerable450,000 RussiaCyrillic
16 Karachay-Balkar languageKipchak languagesVulnerable400,000 RussiaCyrillic
17 Yakut languageSiberian Turkic languagesVulnerable400,000 RussiaCyrillic
18 Tuvan languageSiberian Turkic languagesVulnerable300,000 RussiaCyrillic
19 Urum languageOghuz languagesDefinitely endangered200,000 UkraineCyrillic
20 Gagauz languageOghuz languagesCritically endangered150,000 MoldovaLatin
21 Siberian Tatar languageKipchak languagesDefinitely endangered100,000 RussiaCyrillic
22 Nogai languageKipchak languagesDefinitely endangered100,000 RussiaCyrillic
23 Salar languageOghuz languagesVulnerable70,000 ChinaLatin
24 Altai languageSiberian Turkic languagesSeverely endangered60,000 RussiaCyrillic
25 Khakas languageSiberian Turkic languagesDefinitely endangered50,000 RussiaCyrillic
26 Khalaj languageArghu Turkic languageVulnerable20,000 IranPerso-Arabic
27 Äynu languageKarluk languagesCritically endangered6,000 ChinaPerso-Arabic
28 Western Yugur languageSiberian Turkic languagesSeverely endangered5,000 ChinaLatin
29 Shor languageSiberian Turkic languagesSeverely endangered3,000 RussiaCyrillic
30 Dolgan languageSiberian Turkic languagesDefinitely endangered1,000 RussiaCyrillic
31 Krymchak languageKipchak languagesCritically endangered200 IsraelHebrew
32 Ili Turki languageKarluk languagesSeverely endangered100 ChinaCyrillic
33 Tofa languageSiberian Turkic languagesCritically endangered100 RussiaCyrillic
34 Karaim languageKipchak languagesCritically endangered100 UkraineCyrillic
35 Chulym languageSiberian Turkic languagesCritically endangered50 RussiaCyrillic
Total Turkic languagesCommon Turkic languagesNormal179,000,000 TurkeyLatin

Endangered Turkic languages

An endangered language, or moribund language, is a language that is at risk of falling out of use as its speakers die out or shift to speaking another language. Language loss occurs when the language has no more native speakers and becomes a "dead language".

25 endangered Turkic languages exist in World. The number of speakers derived from statistics or estimates (2019) and were rounded:[4] [5]

Number Name Status Speakers Main Country
1 Bashkir languageVulnerable1,500,000 Russia
2 Chuvash languageVulnerable1,200,000 Russia
3 Khorasani Turkic languageVulnerable1,000,000 Iran
4 Crimean Tatar languageSeverely endangered600,000 Ukraine
5 Kumyk languageVulnerable450,000 Russia
6 Yakut languageVulnerable400,000 Russia
7 Karachay-Balkar languageVulnerable400,000 Russia
8 Tuvan languageVulnerable300,000 Russia
9 Urum languageDefinitely endangered200,000 Ukraine
10 Gagauz languageCritically endangered150,000 Moldova
11 Siberian Tatar languageDefinitely endangered100,000 Russia
12 Nogai languageDefinitely endangered100,000 Russia
13 Salar languageVulnerable70,000 China
14 Altai languageSeverely endangered60,000 Russia
15 Khakas languageDefinitely endangered50,000 Russia
16 Khalaj languageVulnerable20,000 Iran
17 Äynu languageCritically endangered6,000 China
18 Western Yugur languageSeverely endangered5,000 China
19 Shor languageSeverely endangered3,000 Russia
20 Dolgan languageDefinitely endangered1,000 Russia
21 Krymchak languageCritically endangered200 Israel
22 Tofa languageCritically endangered100 Russia
23 Karaim languageCritically endangered100 Ukraine
24 Ili Turki languageSeverely endangered100 China
25 Chulym languageCritically endangered50 Russia

Extinct Turkic languages

Number Name Time of Extinct
- Proto TurkicReconstructed language
1 Old Turkic8th century
2 Old Anatolian Turkish11th century
3 Pecheneg12th century
4 Orkhon Turkic13th century
5 Khazar13th century
6 Old Uyghur14th century
7 Khorezmian14th century
8 Bulgar14th century
9 Middle Turkic15th century
10 Kipchak17th century
11 Cuman1770
12 Old Tatar19th century
13 Fergana Kipchak1920s
14 Chagatai1921
15 Ottoman Turkish1928
16 Fuyu Girgis20th century
17 Dukhan21st century
18 Salchuq2013

Famous Turkic Dialects

Number Dialect Main Language
1 Rumelian dialectTurkish language
2 Cypriot dialectTurkish language
3 Afshar dialectAzerbaijani language
4 Sonqori dialectAzerbaijani language
5 Lop dialectUyghur language
6 Baraba dialectSiberian Tatar language

Hypothetical ancestors

Hypothetical relation to other language families and their proto-languages

Ancestral

Geographical distribution of the Turkic languages. Dark Blue: Northeastern Common Turkic (Siberian Turkic languages); Green: Southeastern Common Turkic (Karluk languages); Orange: Northwestern Common Turkic (Kipchak languages); Red: Southwestern Common Turkic (Oghuz languages); Purple: Oghur languages

Common Turkic (Shaz Turkic / Z Turkic)

Karluk languages. Green: East Karluk; Red: West Karluk
Orange: South Kipchak (Aralo-Caspian); Red: North Kipchak (Uralo-Caspian); Green: West Kipchak (Ponto-Caspian)
Orange: East Oghuz; Green; Azerbaijani; Red: Turkish; Purple: Gagauz; Light Blue: Qashqai; Greenish Blue: Salar
  • Proto-Common Turkic
    • Northeastern Common Turkic (Siberian Turkic)
      • South Siberian
        • Altai Turkic
        • Chulym Turkic
          • Chulym (Ös tili)
            • Lower Chulym (Küerik) (now believed extinct)
            • Middle Chulym
            • Upper Chulym
        • Sayan Turkic (dialect continuum)
          • Tofa (Tòfa dıl)
            • Tuha
            • Tsengel Tuvan
          • Tuvan (Tıwa dıl)
            • Western/Khemchik River (It is influenced by the Altai language)
            • Central (the geographical centrality of this dialect meant it was similar to the language spoken by most Tuvans, whether or not exactly the same). Forms the basis of the standard and literary language and includes:
              • Ovyur
              • Bii-Khem
            • Northeastern/Todzhi (it is spoken near the upper course of the Bii-Khem River by the Tozhu Tuvans. The speakers of this dialect utilize nasalization. It contains a large vocabulary related to hunting and reindeer breeding not found in the other dialects).
            • Southeastern (shows the most influence from the Mongolian language).
          • Taiga
        • Orkhon Turkic / Old Turkic / Old Uyghur (extinct) (not a direct ancestor of Uyghur, that descends from Karluk) (not synonymous with Proto-Turkic)
      • North Siberian
    • Southeastern Common Turkic (Karluk) - Historically in Central Asia there was a distinction between sedentary, called Sart or Taranchi, and nomadic peoples (regardless of the ethnic group and language). Many times it was used confusingly because it was a generic word for several peoples and their languages (mainly Iranians or Turkics) and also because it had different meanings at different historical times (had shifting meanings over the centuries). Strictly it was not an ethnic or linguistic definition but one of a lifestyle. (strong Iranian substrate)
      • Chagatai/Turki (Jağatāy) (literary language of medieval Golden Horde in much of Central Asia) (extinct)
        • Pre-classical Chagatai (1400–1465)
        • East
          • Uyghur (Uyghur tili) (not a direct descendant of the language called Old Uyghur, Old Turkic or Orkhon Turkic)
            • Eastern: Spoken in an area stretching from Qarkilik towards north to Qongköl
            • Central: Spoken in an area stretching from Kumul towards south to Yarkand
            • Southern: Spoken in an area stretching from Guma towards east to Qarkilik
            • Lop (Ľ'or télé) (could be a distinct language)
          • Ili Turki (Kipchak substrate) (extinct)
        • West
          • Uzbek (Karluk Uzbek, Sart Uzbek – Sedentary and Urban Uzbek, “Modern Uzbek”) (strong Iranian substrate from Sogdian and Persian languages)
            • Northern Uzbek (Oʻzbekcha / Oʻzbek tili)
              • Ferghana Uzbek (not the same as Kipchak Uzbek)
              • Tashkent Uzbek
              • Chimkent/Shymkent-Turkestan Uzbek
              • Surkhandarya Uzbek
              • Khorezm Uzbek
            • Southern Uzbek / Afghan Uzbek (strong Iranian substrate from Bactrian language and heavily Persianized) (many are bilingual in Dari / Dari Persian / East Persian / Afghan Persian)
    • Northwestern Common Turkic (Kipchak)
      • Kipchak (extinct)
        • South Kipchak (Aralo-Caspian Turkic)
          • Kipchak-Nogai
            • Fergana Kipchak (Kipchak Uzbek / ”Old Uzbek”) (nomadic and semi-nomadic Turkic of the regions of Fergana, Samarkand, Bukhara and Turkistan) (extinct)
            • Kazakh (Qazaqsha / Qazaq tili)
              • Eastern Kazakh
              • Southern Kazakh
              • Northern Kazakh
              • Western Kazakh
            • Karakalpak (Qaraqalpaq tili) (closer to Kazakh) (Iranian Kwarazmian and Turkic Kwarazmian substrates)
              • Northeastern Karakalpak
              • Southwestern Karakalpak
              • Fergana Valley Karakalpak?
            • Nogai
              • Karanogay-Nogai Proper
                • Karanogay or Qara-Nogai (literally "Black Nogai"; "Northern Nogai"), spoken in Dagestan
                • Central Nogai or Nogai Proper, in Stavropol
              • Aqnogai (White or Western Nogai), by the Kuban River, its tributaries in Karachay–Cherkessia, and in the Mineralnye Vody District. Qara-Nogai and Nogai Proper are very close linguistically, whereas Aqnogai is more different.
          • Kyrgyz-Kypchak
        • North Kipchak (Uralo-Caspian/Volga-Ural Turkic) (has some Uralic substrate)
        • West Kipchak (Kipchak-Cuman/Ponto-Caspian Turkic)
          • Cuman (Polovtsian/Folban/Vallany/Kun) (extinct)
            • Karachay-Balkar - Kumyk
            • Crimean Tatar (Qırımtatar tili / Qırım tili) (Scytho-Sarmatian and Crimean Gothic substrates)
              • Northern (Steppe Crimean Tatar/Nogay Steppe) (should not be confused with Nogai people of the Northern Caucasus and the Lower Volga)
              • Middle (more Cuman type characteristics) (basis of the standard Crimean Tatar)
              • Southern/Coastal Crimean Tatar (Oghuz Turkic influence)
              • Krymchak (Judeo-Crimean Tatar) (Qrımçah tılyı) (a different language from Karaim, not confuse with Karaim)
              • Urum (closely related to Crimean Tatar and spoken by Turkish-speaking Greeks of Southeastern Ukraine and Georgia, etymological related to the Turkish name for Rome - Rûm / Urum, associated with the name of the East Roman Empire, mainly Greek in language) (Greek substrate)
            • Karaim (Judeo-Crimean) (Qaray tili / Karaj tili) (a different language from Krymchak, not confuse with Krymchak)
    • Southwestern Common Turkic (Oghuz) (dialect continuum)
      • East Oghuz (Eastern)
        • Salar (Salırça) (an Oghuz language outlier strongly influenced by Karluk and Kipchak languages and also by non-Turkic languages like Tibetan and Chinese)
          • Qinghai (Amdo) Salar
          • Ili Salar
        • Turkmen (Türkmençe / Türkmen dili)
          • Teke (Tekke) (basis of the standard Turkmen)
          • Nohurly
          • Ýomud
          • Änewli
          • Hasarly
          • Nerezim
          • Gökleň
          • Salyr
          • Saryk
          • Ärsary
          • Çowdur
          • Trukhmen
      • Transitional East-West Oghuz
      • West Oghuz (Western)
        • Azerbaijani (Azeri Turkic, West Turkmen) (Azərbaycan dili) (has an Iranian substrate from the Old Azeri language, an Indo-European language)
          • South Azerbaijani (Iranian Azerbaijani / Azerbaijani of Iran)
            • Qarapapaq
            • Shahsavani (Shahseven)
            • Muqaddam
            • Baharlu (Kamesh)
            • Nafar
            • Qaragözlü
            • Pishaqchi
            • Bayatlu
            • Qajar
            • Tabrizi (basis of Standard South Azerbaijani but not identical)
            • Iraqi Turkmen (South Turkmen)
            • Salchuq (extinct) (etymological related to the name Seljuk, from the Seljuk Turks, who brought Turkic languages and dialects to Iran and Anatolia)
          • North Azerbaijani (Caucasian Azerbaijani / Azerbaijani of the Caucasus)
            • Salyan
            • Lenkaran
            • Qazakh
            • Airym
            • Borcala
            • Terekeme
            • Qyzylbash
            • Nukha
            • Zaqatala (Mugaly)
            • Qabala
            • Yerevan
            • Ordubad
            • Ganja
            • Shusha (Karabakh)
            • Karapapak
            • Shirvan dialect
              • Baku dialect (basis of Standard North Azerbaijani but not identical)
            • Shamakhi
            • Quba
            • Derbend
            • Nakhchivan
        • Transitional Turkish Azerbaijani-Turkish
          • Eastern Anatolian Turkish (Doğu Anadolu Ağızları)
            • Meshketian Turkish
            • Hemshen Turkish
            • Eastern Anatolian Turkish Proper (Kars, Erzurum, other regions)
            • Zaza Turkish (Turkish spoken by Zazas, not to be confused with Zaza, which is an Iranian language, Zaza substrate)
            • Kurdish Turkish (Turkish spoken by Kurds, not to be confused with Kurdish which is an Iranian language, Kurdish substrate)
          • Northeastern Anatolian Turkish (Kuzeydoğu Anadolu Ağızları)
            • Laz Turkish (Turkish spoken by Laz, do not confuse with Laz which is a Kartvelian language)
            • Trebizond (Trabzon) Turkish
        • Old Anatolian Turkish (extinct)
          • Turkish (Anatolian Turkish / Turkish of Turkey / Istanbul Turkish) (Türkçe / Türk dili)
            • Anatolian dialects (Anadolu Ağızları)
              • Western Anatolian (Batı Anadolu Ağızları)
                • Central (Orta Anadolu)
                  • East central
                  • West Central
                • Mediterranean (Akdeniz)/South (Güney)
                  • Southwest (Güneybatı)
                  • Southeast (Güneydoğu)
                • Black Sea (Karadeniz)/North (Kuzey)
                  • Çorum, Çankırı
                  • East Black Sea Coast
                  • West Black Sea Coast
                  • Sakarya-Izmit
                • Aegean (Ege)/West (Batı)
                • Yörük (Nomadic Anatolian Turkish)
            • Istanbul dialect (İstanbul Türkçesi) (basis of Modern Standard Turkish but not identical)
            • Syrian Turkmen (Syrian Turkish)
            • Cypriot Turkish
            • Balkanic/Rumelian/Danubian
              • East Balkanic/East Rumelian/East Danubian
                • Edirne
              • West Balkanic/West Rumelian/West Danubian
            • Karamanli Turkish (Turkish of the Karamanlides, Turkish-speaking Greeks, Greek language substrate, not confuse with Cappadocian Greek, a mixed language, or the Cappadocian Greeks, although they are related) (almost extinct)
          • Balkan Gagauz Turkish (Balkan Turkic) (Rumeli Türkçesi)
            • Gajal
            • Gerlovo Turk
            • Karamanli
            • Kyzylbash
            • Surguch
            • Tozluk Turk
            • Yuruk
            • Macedonian Gagauz
            • Gagauz (Gagauz dili / Gagauzça)
              • Bulgar Gagauzi
              • Maritime Gagauzi
          • Ottoman Turkish (Lisân-ı Osmânî / Osmanlı Türkçesi / Osmanlıca) (extinct) (not a direct ancestor of Anatolian Turkish but a heavily Persianized and Arabized Turkic language)
            • Fasih Türkçe (Eloquent Turkish): the language of poetry and administration, Ottoman Turkish in its strict sense
            • Orta Türkçe (Middle Turkish): the language of higher classes and trade
            • Kaba Türkçe (Rough Turkish): the language of lower classes.
      • South Oghuz
        • Afshar (Əfşar türkcəsi) (could be a dialect of South Azerbaijani language)
        • Aynallu (could be a dialect of South Azerbaijani language)
        • Qashqai (Turki) (Kaşqay dili) (closely related to Azerbaijani / West Turkmen)
        • Sonqori (could be a dialect of South Azerbaijani language)
    • Pecheneg
    • Arghu
      • Khalaj (a divergent member of the Common Turkic languages, not an Oghuz language) (heavily Persianized) (many are bilingual in Persian / Iranian Persian / Western Persian)
        • Northern
        • Southern

Oghur (Lir Turkic / R Turkic)

  • Proto-Oghur
    • Bulgar/Bolgar (extinct) (had a Uralic substrate)
      • Volga Bulgar (extinct)
      • Danube Bulgar (extinct in the 10th c. AD assimilated by the Slavic language of the Seven Slavic Tribes, that was close to Old Church Slavonic, but they chose the name Bulgarian as an ethnonym and also for their language because of the origins of much of their ruling class or political elite that was Turkic)
    • Khazar (extinct) (the language of the Khazars)

Possible Turkic languages (all extinct)

Unclassified languages that may have been Turkic or members of other language families

  • Hunnic / Xiongnu (?)
    • Hunnic / Hunnish - the language or languages of the Huns (there are several hypotheses about their language)
    • Xiongnu - the language or languages of the Xiongnu (may be the same as the Hunnic language, a closely related one, or not related at all) (there are several hypotheses about their language)
  • Keraite - the language or languages of the Keraites (in today's Central Mongolia) (Mongolized after Temüjin, called Chinggis Khan, conquest in the 13th century) (Qarai Turks, the Kerey Kazakh group of the middle zhuz Argyns, the Kireis, a group of the Kyrgyz and many Torghut may descend from them) (there are several hypotheses about their language)
  • Old Naiman - the language or languages of the old Naimans (in today's Western and Southwestern Mongolia) (Mongolized after Temüjin, called Chinggis Khan, conquest in the 13th century) (Naiman, however, is the Mongol name for the numeral eight) (there are several hypotheses about their language)
  • Pannonian Avar - the language or languages of the Pannonian Avars (there are several hypotheses about their language)

Possible Mixed Turkic-Iranian language

See also

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