Turkic leids

Turkic
Geografic ; distribution	Frae Sootheastren Europe tae Wastren Cheenae an Siberie
Lingueestic clessification	Ane o the warld's primary leid faimilies
Proto-leid	Proto-Turkic
Subdiveesions	Common Turkic ; Oghur ;
ISO 639-5	trk
Glottolog	turk1311
	Turkic leids

The Turkic leids constitute a leid faimlie o at least thirty-five ^[2] leids, spaken bi Turkic fowks athort a vast aurie frae Eastren Europe an the Mediterranean tae Siberie an Wastren Cheenae , an are considered tae be pairt o the proposed Altaic leid faimlie . ^[3]

Turkic leids are spaken as a native leid bi some 165 ^[4] tae 180 million fowk; ^[5] an the total nummer o Turkic speakers is ower 200 million, includin speakers o a seicont leid . The Turkic leid wi the greatest nummer o speakers is Turkis proper , or Anatolien [an Balkan] Turkish, the speakers o whilk accoont for aboot 40% o aw Turkic speakers. ^[3] Characteristic featurs o Turkis, sic as vowel harmony , agglutination , an lack o grammatical gender , are universal athin the Turkic faimily. ^[3] There is an aw a hie degree o mutual intelligibility atween the sindry Oghuz leids, whilk include Turkis , Azerbaijani , Turkmen , Qashqai , Gagauz , an Balkan Gagauz Turkis . ^[6]

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↑ Nordhoff, Sebastian; Hammarstrom, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2013). "Turkic" . Glottolog . Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.
↑ Dybo A.V., "Chronology of Turkic languages and linguistic contacts of early Turks" , Moscow, 2007, p. 766, [1] Archived 2005-03-11 at the Wayback Machine ( In Russian )
↑ ^a ^b ^c Katzner, Kenneth (2002). Languages of the World, Third Edition . Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd. ISBN 978-0415250047 . Unknown parameter |month= ignored ( help )
↑ "Turkic Peoples" . Archived frae the original on 13 August 2011 . Retrieved 29 October 2010 .
↑ Turkic Language family tree entries provide the information on the Turkic-speaking populations and regions.
↑ "Language Materials Project: Turkish" . UCLA International Institute, Center for World Languages. 2007. Archived frae the original on 11 October 2007 . Retrieved 26 Apryle 2007 . Unknown parameter |month= ignored ( help )