X-Nico

unusual facts about Turkic language



Tadkeshwar

Since Sultan Mahmud of Ghazna was himself of Turkic origin and his armies consisted of Turks, Persians and Afghans from Afghanistan/Afghan Turkestan after the conquest the town became known as Turk-sar, which in the Turkic language means 'beset by the Turks'.


see also

Azari language

Azerbaijani language, a modern language spoken in Azerbaijan and Northwest Iran, from Turkic language family

Burtas

The ethnic identiry of the Burtas is disputed, with several different theories ranging from them being a Uralic tribal confederacy (probably later assimilated to Turkic language), and therefore perhaps the ancestors of the modern Moksha people, or that they were an Aryan tribe, possibly the ancestors of the modern Mishars, and/or Volga Tatars and Chuvash.

Karaim

Karaim language, (Crimean dialect: къарай тили, Trakai dialect: karaj tili, Turkish dialect: karay dili, traditional Karaim name lashon kedar (Hebrew: לשון קדר - «language of the nomads») is a Turkic language with Hebrew influences, in a similar manner to Yiddish or Ladino

Kipchaks

When members of the Armenian diaspora moved from the Crimean peninsula to the Polish-Ukrainian borderland in the end of the 13th century, they brought Kipchak, their adopted Turkic language with them.

Kuman language

Cuman language, an extinct Turkic language once spoken by the Cumans in the steppes of Eastern Europe

Oghuz

Oghuz languages, southwestern branch of the Turkic language family.

Tofa

Tofa language, a Turkic language spoken in Russia's Irkutsk Oblast

Tuhsi

In the turkic provinces and the steppe nomad wandering one at a time, and belonging to the Turkic language and culture by examining carefully the material collected works of Mahmud of Kashgar.He concluded that Tuhs was the most honest and useful accent,

UZB

Uzbek language, a Turkic language and the official language of Uzbekistan