Khazar language
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language spoken by the Khazars, a nomadic steppe people of Turkic descent
Key facts
- Native to
- Khazar Khanate
- Ethnicity
- Khazars
- Extinct
- by the 13th century
- Language family
- Turkic (classification disputed) Khazar
- Writing system
- Old Turkic
- Iso 639 3
- zkz
- Linguist list
- zkz
- Glottolog
- None
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- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1000-00-00
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Khazar, also known as Khazaric, was a Turkic dialect group spoken by the Khazars, a group of semi-nomadic Turkic peoples originating from Central Asia. There are few written records of the language and its features and characteristics are unknown. It is believed to have gradually become extinct by the 13th century AD as its speakers assimilated into neighboring Turkic-speaking populations.
As the extant corpus of Khazar is extremely limited, consisting of two nouns, a conjugated verb, and a few proper names, its exact genealogical position within the Turkic language family remains unresolved. Some scholars believe that it belongs to the Oghuric branch of the Turkic language family, while others place it in the Common Turkic branch.