Turkic

5 languages

Switched from Arabic script to Latin in 1928 under Ataturk. A model of linguistic engineering, the l...

The official language of Azerbaijan. Switched scripts from Arabic to Latin, then to Cyrillic, then b...

The state language of Kazakhstan. Uses vowel harmony and long agglutinated words. Officially switchi...

The most spoken Turkic language of Central Asia. Descends from Chagatai, the refined court language ...

The language of the Uyghur people of far western China. Old Uyghur was the Silk Road lingua franca f...