Turkic

//ˈtɝkɪk//

"Turkic" in a Sentence (11 examples)

"Almaty" means "The Father of Apples" in many Turkic languages.

Uyghur is a Turkic language.

"Alma-Ata" means "apple's father" in many Turkic languages.

Oghuz languages are part of the Turkic language family.

Turkish is a Turkic language.

I love Turkic languages.

Wilhelm Friedrich Radloff is the famous German scientist who studied the history and folklore of Turkic peoples and compiled the first collection of Tatar folk dastans.

It is the 15th of March of 2015, at a pizzeria on Lulu Island. Adil the Kazakh and I discuss the multilingual and multicultural landscape of South Asia, centuries ago, when there were many kingdoms in the region. Farsi was an elitist language, he says. His Kazakh is a Turkic language in Central Asia. I dutifully and gleefully inform him about PIE, Proto-Indo-European, the ancestral language of many Caucasoids today. The origin in theory is Southern Russia near the Black Sea, more than 6000 years ago. PIE was the great-great-grandfather of languages like Spanish, English, German, Welsh, Hindi, Greek, and many others today. Adil and I discuss about some modern humans who have genes from other species, like the Neanderthals and Denisovans. Scientists know that the brain size of the Neanderthal was bigger than the modern human's.

Is the Hungarian language a Turkic language or a Finno-Ugric one?

The Uyghurs are an old Turkic people and live in East Turkestan.

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[...] (3) the southeastern (se) branch or Uyghur Turkic; (4) the northeastern (ne) branch or Siberian Turkic; (5) Chuvash, representing Oghur or Bulghar Turkic; [...]

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