Common Turkic languages

Common Turkic, or Shaz Turkic, is a taxon in some classifications of the Turkic languages that includes all of them except the Oghuric languages.

Common Turkic
Shaz Turkic
Geographic
distribution
Southern Europe, Eastern Europe, Western Asia, Central Asia, North Asia, East Asia
Linguistic classificationTurkic
  • Common Turkic
Subdivisions
Glottologcomm1245
Map of the distribution of Common Turkic Languages across Eurasia

Classification

Lars Johanson's proposal contains the following subgroups:[1][2]

In that classification scheme, Common Turkic is opposed to the Oghuric languages (Lir-Turkic). The Common Turkic languages are characterized by sound correspondences such as Common Turkic š versus Oghuric l and Common Turkic z versus Oghuric r.

Siberian Turkic is split into a "Central Siberian Turkic" and "North Siberian Turkic" branch within the classification presented in Glottolog v4.8.[3]

In other classification schemes (such as those of Alexander Samoylovich and Nikolay Baskakov), the internal classification is different.[4][5]

References

Literature

  • Johanson, Lars & Éva Agnes Csató (ed.). 1998. The Turkic languages. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-08200-5.

External links