Chagatay, also known as Chaghatay, Chagatai or Jagataic, was the Turkic literary language of Central Asia in the fifteenth to early twentieth centuries, written in the Arabic or (in a few early manuscripts) the Uighur script. Some of the greatest works...

The Chagatai language (جغتای - Jaĝatāy; Uyghur: چاغاتاي Chaghatay; Uzbek: ﭼىﻐﺎتوي Chig'atoy) is an extinct Turkic language which was once widely spoken in Central Asia. The word Chagatai relates to the Chagatai Khanate, the...