Turkic languages

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Turkic languages are a group of closely related languages that are used by a variety of people distributed in a vast area from Eastern Europe to Siberia and Western China. The Turkic languages are considered by most linguists to be part of the Altaic language family.

The Turkic language with the greatest number of speakers is Turkish.

Turkic languages are agglutinative and also have special phonetic feature called synharmonism.

Though various different Turkic tribes and their languages have mixed with each other throughout centuries, making a classification extremely difficult, a very simplified classification could be as follows:

Southwestern languages:
- Oghuz group: Turkish, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Gagauz, Crimean Turkish
- Khorasan group: Iran
Northwestern languages: Kypchak group
- Aralo-Caspian: Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Karakalpak, Nogai)
- Ponto-Caspian: Karachay-Balkar, Kumyk, Karaim, Judeo-Crimean Tatar, Pecheneg (extinct), Kuman (extinct)
- Uralian: Tatar, Bashkir, Chulym
Northern languages:
- Siberian group Altai, Khakas, Shor, Tuvin, Yakut
Eastern languages:
- Uighur-Chagatai group: Uzbek, Uighur
Bolgar languages: (sometimes considered to be a separate altaic language family)
- Chuvash, Bolgar (extinct) , Khazar (extinct)

Various elements have passed to Turkic languages especially from Chinese, Persian and Arabic languages and various elements from Turkic languages have been carried as far as Southeastern Asia, Northernmost territories of Russia and even Northern America.