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Preferred term

otkOld Turkish  

Type

  • Language

Definition

  • Old Turkic (also East Old Turkic, Orkhon Turkic, Old Uyghur) is the earliest attested form of Turkic, found in Göktürk and Uyghur inscriptions dating from about the 7th century to the 13th century. It is the oldest attested member of the Southeastern (Uyghuric) branch of Turkic, which is extant in the modern Chagatai, Uyghur and Western Yugur languages.

Entry terms

  • Old Turkic language
  • Turkish, Old

ISO 639-3 code

  • otk

Notation

  • otk

In other languages

  • Vieux-turc

    French

  • Alttürkische Sprache

    German

URI

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

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