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A language family spoken in Eurasia and including Turkish, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Kazakh, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, and Uyghur.
1. Of or relating to Turkic or the peoples who speak Turkic.
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(Languages) a branch or subfamily of the Altaic family of languages, including Turkish, Turkmen, Kirghiz, Tatar, etc, members of which are found from Turkey to NE China, esp in central Asia
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1. a family of closely related languages of SW, central, and N Asia and E Europe, including Turkish, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Uzbek, Uighur, and Yakut.adj.
2. of or pertaining to Turkic or Turkic-speaking peoples.
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|Noun||1.||Turkic - a subfamily of Altaic languages |
Turkish - a Turkic language spoken by the Turks
Azerbaijani - the Turkic language spoken by the Azerbaijani
Tatar - the Turkic language spoken by the Tatar living from the Volga to the Ural Mountains
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
Karakalpak - the Turkic language spoken by the Karakalpak
Chuvash - the Turkic language spoken by the Chuvash
|Adj.||1.||Turkic - of or relating to the people who speak the Turkic language|
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