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The Chagatailanguage is an extinct (A subfamily of Altaic languages) Turkic language spoken in (additional info and facts about Central Asia) Central Asia.
It was developed as a sophisticated written language using the (The alphabet of 28 characters derived from Aramaic and used for writing Arabiclanguages (and borrowed for writing Urdu)) Arabic alphabet.
It was heavily influenced by (The Semitic language of the Arabs; spoken in a variety of dialects) Arabic and (The language of Persia (Iran) in any of its ancient forms) Persian.
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The linguistic conservatism of Chagatai during this period can be attributed in part to the towering prestige of Nava'i, and the desire of writers to imitate his style and vocabulary.
The supplanting of Chagatai by daughter languages parallels, in fact, the replacement of Latin by the modern Romance languages.
The Uzbek people have adopted Nava'i as their national poet, and in the Soviet Union Chagatai is commonly referred to as "Old Uzbek." In 1966, which marked the 525th anniversary of Nava'i's birth, a year of official and deeply felt celebration took place in Uzbekistan.
The Turkic languages are a group of closely related languages that are spoken by a variety of people distributed across a vast area from Eastern Europe to Siberia and Western China.
The Turkic languages are considered by some linguists to be part of the Altaic language family.
Turkic languages are agglutinative and exhibit phonological vowel harmony.
Uzbek belongs to the southeastern, or Chagatai, branch of the Turkic languages.
The Kazak language is spoken primarily in Kazakstan and in the Uighur Autonomous Region of Sinkiang in China but is also found in Uzbekistan, Mongolia, and Afghanistan.
The modern Uighur language, which was based on the Taranchi dialect spoken in Russia prior to the Russian Revolution of 1917, is classified with Uzbek in the southeastern...
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Uzbek is a Turkic language spoken in Central Eurasia by approximately 30 million people, primarily in the Republic of Uzbekistan, and by Uzbek minority populations in the neighboring Xinjiang Province of China, as well as in Kazakstan, Kyrgyzstan, and in the Northern part of Afghanistan.
Uzbek is closely related to Uyghur, the language of the Uyghur people of northwestern China, as well as to Kazak, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Turkmen, and to the Turkish spoken in Turkey.
Uzbek is the modern heir to the classical Chagatailanguage that served as a lingua franca in medieval Central Eurasia, and was used by the Timurids (Tamerlane) and the Moghuls.
The Krymchak language was called Chagatai on very rare occasions, and I suspect the use of this term was greatly influenced by a second literary tradition.
A Karaite, R. Beim, already in 1858, allegedly claimed that the Karaites spoke the Chagatailanguage relative to the Median [sic!] even before Tatar had penetrated into the Crimea.[6] An unexpected allegation that the Krymchaks themselves call their language 'Chagatai,' made by Filonenko in his article published in 1972,[7] seems to be baseless.
It is less clear, however, whether a change in languages was accompanied by corresponding superstratum processes; for example, whether, and to what extent, the Turkish speaking Jews of Istanbul contributed to the ethnic core of the Krymchaks.
First, the Chagatailanguage of the eastern Turks was used mainly in Central Asia, by the Golden Horde; in Egypt; and in the Indian courts of the Mughal period.
The name is often applied to those imaginative works of poetry and prose distinguished by the intentions of their authors and the excellence of their execution.
The language of the Aryans was Sanskrit, which eventually became the classic literary language of Hinduism, the leading religion of India.
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It served as a lingua france in Central Asia.
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