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Preferred term

chgChagatai  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • The Chagatai language (جغتای – Jağatāy;Uzbek: چەغەتاي Chag'atoy; Uyghur: چاغاتاي Chāghātāy Turkish: Çağatayca) is an extinct Turkic language which was once widely spoken in Central Asia, and remained the shared literary language there until the early twentieth century. It was also spoken by the early Mughal rulers in the Indian subcontinent.

Entry terms

  • Chagatai language

ISO 639-2 Bibliographical code

  • chg

ISO 639-2 Terminological code

  • chg

ISO 639-3 code

  • chg

Notation

  • chg

In other languages

  • djaghataï

    French

  • tchaghataï
  • Tchaghataï
  • Tschagataisch

    German

  • Tschagataische Sprache
  • ciagataico

    Italian

  • Portuguese

  • chagatái

    Spanish

URI

http://lexvo.org/id/iso639-3/chg

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