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TURKIC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A subfamily of Altaic languages
Synonyms:
Turki; Turkic; Turkic language; Turko-Tatar
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Turkic" is a kind of...):
Altaic; Altaic language (a group of related languages spoken in Asia and southeastern Europe)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Turkic"):
Turkish (a Turkic language spoken by the Turks)
Turcoman; Turkmen; Turkoman (the Turkic language spoken by the Turkoman)
Azerbaijani (the Turkic language spoken by the Azerbaijani)
Kazak; Kazakh (the Turkic language spoken by the Kazak)
Tatar (the Turkic language spoken by the Tatar living from the Volga to the Ural Mountains)
Usbeg; Usbek; Uzbak; Uzbeg; Uzbek (the Turkic language spoken by the Uzbek)
Uighur; Uigur; Uygur (the Turkic language spoken by approximately 7,000,000 Uighur in extreme northwestern China)
Yakut (the Turkic language spoken by the Yakut)
Khirghiz; Kirghiz; Kirgiz (the Turkic language spoken by the Kirghiz)
Karakalpak (the Turkic language spoken by the Karakalpak)
Chuvash (the Turkic language spoken by the Chuvash)
Chagatai; Eastern Turki; Jagatai; Jaghatai (a Turkic literary language of medieval central Asia (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan))
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to the people who speak the Turkic language
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Turki (a subfamily of Altaic languages)
