Uyghur Turkic languages

Uyghur Turkic
Southeastern Turkic
Geographic
distribution:

 Western Uyghuric 

 Eastern Uyghuric 
Linguistic classification: Turkic
  • Uyghur Turkic
Subdivisions:
Western Uyghuric Group
Eastern Uyghuric Group

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).[1]

Proto-Turkic Southeastern Common Turkic (Uyghuric languages) West
East

See also

References

  1. ^ Lars Johanson (1998) The History of Turkic. In Lars Johanson & Éva Ágnes Csató (eds) The Turkic Languages. London, New York: Routledge, 81-125. Classification of Turkic languages at Turkiclanguages.com
  2. ^ Deviating. Probably of South Siberian origin (Johanson 1998) Classification of Turkic languages at Turkiclanguages.com
  3. ^ Deviating. Historically developed from Southwestern (Oghuz) (Johanson 1998) Classification of Turkic languages at Turkiclanguages.com
  4. ^ Aini contains a very large Persian vocabulary component, and is spoken exclusively by adult men, almost as a cryptolect.