Turkic leids

The Turkic leids constitute a leid family o at least thirty five^[1] leids, spaken bi Turkic fowks athort a vast area from Eastern Europe an the Mediterranean tae Siberie an Wastren Cheenae, an are considered tae be pairt o the proposed Altaic leid family.^[2]^[3]

Turkic leids are spaken as a native leid bi some 165^[4] tae 180 million fowk;^[5] an the total number o Turkic speakers is ower 200 million, includin speakers o a seicont leid. The Turkic leid wi the greatest number o speakers is Turkish proper, or Anatolien [an Balkan] Turkish, the speakers o which accoont for aboot 40% o aw Turkic speakers.^[3] Characteristic features o Turkish, such as vowel harmony, agglutination, an lack o grammatical gender, are universal athin the Turkic family.^[3] There is an' a' a hie degree o mutual intelligibility atween the various Oghuz leids, which include Turkish, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Qashqai, Gagauz, an Balkan Gagauz Turkish.^[6]

[edit] Notes

↑ Dybo A.V., "Chronology of Türkic languages and linguistic contacts of early Türks", Moskow, 2007, p. 766, [1] (In Russian)
↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named Ethnologue_Altaic
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 ^3.2 Katzner, Kenneth (March 2002). Languages of the World, Third Edition. Routledge, an imprint of Taylor & Francis Books Ltd..
↑ Turkic Peoples
↑ Turkic Language family tree entries provide the information on the Turkic-speaking populations and regions.
↑ Language Materials Project: Turkish. UCLA International Institute, Center for World Languages (February 2007). Retrieved on 26 Apryle 2007. .