As a branch of Altaic, Turkic is a big group of languages and has about 10 million speakers in China. Turkic languages in China consist of two groups: the first includes Uighur, Kazak, Sala, Uzbek and Tatar, and the second Kirgiz and Yugur. Most of...

The Turkic languages are spoken across Eurasia from eastern Siberia to Iran and from China to Ukraine, but they are concentrated in Central Asia, where groups of two to twenty million are represented; the total number of speakers of Turkic languages...

Branch of the Altaic languages with about thirty closely related languages and 80 million speakers in Central Asia and Asia Minor; a written tradition has existed for over 1,000 years. The largest languages are Turkish (about 45 million speakers),...

The Turkic languages constitute a language family of some thirty languages, spoken across a vast area from Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean to Siberia and Western China, and are traditionally considered to be part of the proposed Altaic language...

9783447052122 Turkic languages in contact. Ed. by Hendrik Boeschoten and Lars Johanson. Harrassowitz 2006 261 pages $93.00 Paperback Turcologica; v.61 PL22 Turkic languages are spoken from Western Europe all the way to northeastern...

Researchers trekking through remote Russian villages have identified and interviewed some of the last remaining speakers of two Turkic languages. K. David Harrison of Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and his colleague Gregory Anderson recently visited villages along the Chulym River in Siberia,...

Prominent Shiite and Sunni politicians called on Iraqi civilians to take up arms to defend themselves after a weekend of violence that claimed more than 220 lives, including 60 who died Sunday in a surge of bombings and shootings around Baghdad.The calls reflect growing frustration...