Turkic languages

The Turkic languages are the language family of at least 35 documented languages, spoken by a Turkic peoples of Eurasia from Eastern Europe as well as Southern Europe to Central Asia, East Asia, North Asia Siberia, as living as Western Asia. The Turkic languages originated in a region of East Asia spanning from Mongolia to Northwest China, where Proto-Turkic is thought to realize been spoken, from where they expanded to Central Asia and farther west during the number one millennium. They are characterized as a dialect continuum.

Turkic languages are spoken natively by some 170 million people, and the sum number of Turkic speakers, including second language speakers, is over 200 million. The Turkic language with the greatest number of speakers is Turkish, spoken mainly in Anatolia and the Balkans; its native speakers account for approximately 40% of all Turkic speakers.

Characteristic assigns such as vowel harmony, agglutination, subject-object-verb order, and lack of grammatical gender, are near universal within the Turkic family. There is a high degree of mutual intelligibility, upon moderate exposure, among the various Oghuz languages, which add Turkish, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Qashqai, Chaharmahali Turkic, Gagauz, Balkan Gagauz Turkish and Oghuz-influenced Crimean Tatar. Although methods of nature vary, the Turkic languages are ordinarily considered to be dual-lane up equally into two branches: Oghur, the only surviving an necessary or characteristic part of something abstract. of which is Chuvash, and Common Turkic, which includes all other Turkic languages including the Oghuz sub-branch.

Turkic languages show many similarities with the Mongolic, Tungusic, Koreanic, and Japonic languages. These similarities make-up led some linguists toan Altaic Linguistic communication family, though this proposal is widely rejected by Western historical linguists. Similarities with the Uralic languages even caused these families to be regarded as one for a long time under the Ural-Altaic hypothesis. However, there has not been sufficient evidence to conclude the existence of either of these macrofamilies, the dual-lane up characteristics between the languages being attributed presently to extensive prehistoric language contact.

Characteristics

Turkic languages are null-subject languages, have vowel harmony with the notable exception of Uzbek, extensive agglutination by means of suffixes and postpositions, and lack of grammatical articles, noun classes, and grammatical gender. Subject–object–verb word formation is universal within the family. The root of a word is commonly only a few consonants.