Siberian Turkic
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Turkic language family in North Asia
Key facts
- Geographic distribution
- Siberia
- Linguistic classification
- Turkic Common Turkic Siberian Turkic
- Early form
- Old Turkic
- Subdivisions
- North South
- Glottolog
- nort2688 North, sout2693 South, west2402 West Yugur
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- language family
- Subclass of
- Common Turkic
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- topic's main category
- Category:Siberian Turkic languages
- linguistic typology
- agglutinative language
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Encyclopedic overview
The Siberian Turkic or Northeastern Common Turkic languages are a sub-branch of the Turkic language family. The following table is based upon the classification scheme presented by Lars Johanson (1998). All languages of the branch combined have approximately 670,000 native and second language speakers, with most widely spoken members being Yakut (c. 450,000 speakers), Tuvan (c. 130,000 speakers), Northern Altai (c. 57,000 speakers) and Khakas (c. 29,000 speakers). Despite their usual English name, two major Turkic languages spoken in Siberia, Siberian Tatar and Southern Altai, are not classified as Siberian Turkic, but are rather part of the Kipchak subgroup. Many of these languages have a Yeniseian substratum.
Classification
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