Explore: Old Turkic Language Manuscripts

used by the Göktürks and other early Turkic khanates from the 8th to 10th centuries to record the Old Turkic language. The script is named after the Orkhon

Çağatây), also known as Turki, Eastern Turkic, or Chagatai Turkic (Çağatây türkîsi), is an extinct Turkic language that was once widely spoken across Central

The Oghuz languages are a sub-branch of the Turkic language family, spoken by approximately 108 million people. The three languages with the largest number

Old Uyghur (simplified Chinese: 回鹘语; traditional Chinese: 回鶻語; pinyin: Huíhú yǔ) was a Turkic language spoken in Qocho from the 9th–14th centuries as well

as parts of Europe, who speak Turkic languages. According to historians and linguists, the Proto-Turkic language originated in Central-East Asia, potentially

engineer with an interest in Turkic linguistics, claimed that the manuscript is written in a language variety derived from Old Turkic. The text was written using

of other languages represented in the manuscripts include Khotanese, Kuchean, Sanskrit, Sogdian, Old Uyghur, Prakrit, Hebrew, and Old Turkic. The removal

Urum (Урум, Ουρούμ) is a Turkic language spoken by several thousand Urums, an ethnic Greek population who inhabit a few villages in southeastern Ukraine

referred to as Old Anatolian Turkic (Latin Turkish: Eski Anadolu Türkisi, Turco-Arabic: انادولو تورکیسی اسکی), was the form of the Turkish language spoken in

Qizilbash. Ajem-Turkic is descended from Old Anatolian Turkish, and is part of the southwestern branch of Oghuz languages. The language first appears during