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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), Uzbeki (about 10 million speakers), and Azerbaijani (about 8 million speakers).
References
Boeschoeten, H.E. and L.Verhoeven. 1991. Turkish linguistics today. Leiden.
Menges, K.H. 1968. The Turkic languages and peoples. Wiesbaden. (2nd corr. edn 1993.)
Rona-Tas, A. 1991. An introduction to Turkology. Szeged.
Spuler, B. (ed.) 1963.
Turkologie. (Handbuch der Orientaliskik I, vol. 5,1.) Leiden. (Repr. with additions 1982.)
Bibliography
Hazai, G. and B.Kellner-Heinkele. 1986. Bibliographisches Handbuch der Turkologie: eine Bibliographie der Bibliographien vom 18. Jahrhundert bis 1979, vol. I.Wiesbaden. (Vol. 2. 3 in prep.)
Dictionary
Waterson, N. 1980. Uzbek-English dictionary. Oxford.
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