Kipchak
Also known as Kypchak, Kipchak languages
family of Turkic languages of Central Asia and Europe
Key facts
- Geographic distribution
- Central Asia , Russia , Northern Caucasus , Balkans , Lithuania , Romania , Ukraine , China
- Ethnicity
- Kipchaks
- Linguistic classification
- Turkic Common Turkic Kipchak
- Subdivisions
- Kipchak–Cuman Kipchak–Bulgar Kipchak–Nogai Kipchak–Kyrgyz
- Glottolog
- kipc1239
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The Kipchak languages (also known as the Kypchak, Qypchaq, Qypshaq or the Northwestern Turkic languages) are a sub-branch of the Turkic language family spoken by approximately 30 million people in much of Central Asia and Eastern Europe, spanning from Romania to China. Some of the most widely spoken languages in this group are Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and Tatar.
Linguistic features