Karluk

Also known as Karluk Turkic, Uyghuric Turkic, Southeastern Common Turkic, Qarluk Turkic, Southeastern Common Turkic languages, Qarluq languages, Karluk languages, Southeastern Turkic

sub-branch of the Turkic language family

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Geographic distribution: Central Asia
Linguistic classification: Turkic Common Turkic Karluk
Early forms: Middle Turkic Karakhanid Khorezmian Turkic Chagatai
Subdivisions: Western Karluk, • Northern Uzbek , • Southern Uzbek Eastern Karluk, • Äynu , • Ili Turki , • Uyghur Intermediate, • Tor Tajik
Glottolog: uygh1241

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The Karluk or Qarluq languages are a sub-branch of the Turkic language family that developed from the varieties spoken by Karluks, an ancient people present in Central Asia in the 5th-8th centuries CE. By far the largest languages of this branch are Uzbek and Uyghur.

Many Middle Turkic works were written in these languages. The language of the Kara-Khanid Khanate was known as Turki, Ferghani, Kashgari or Khaqani. The language of the Chagatai Khanate was the Chagatai language.