Khazar language
Khazar | |
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Region | Khazar Khanate |
Extinct | by the 13th century[citation needed] |
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Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | zkz |
zkz | |
Glottolog | None |
Khazar, also known as Khazaric, was a
There is a dispute among Turkic linguists and historians as to which branch of the Turkic language family it belongs to. One consideration believes it belongs to the
Classification
There are many problems with exact classification of the Khazar language. One of the basic issues is the vague nature of the name Khazar itself. It has not yet been determined whether it refers to a specific Turkic tribe, or if it had a political and geographical origin that was not ethnolinguistic.[1] The Khazar realm was a polyglot (multilingual) and polyethnic (multicultural) state, with Iranian, Finnic, Ugric, Slavic, and North Caucasian languages.[2] According to anthropological data, it was ruled by Inner Asian Mongoloid (with some Europoid somatic elements) core tribes that accompanied the dynasty.[1][3] The Turkic tribes probably spoke a number of Turkic languages.[4] Scholars considered it a possibility that the term Khazar denoted one or even several languages; however, the sources cannot determine the extent of its use.[5]
Chronicles of the time are unclear on Khazar's linguistic affiliation. The tenth century
Compared to the uniformity of Common Turkic, which Al-Istakhri mentioned "as for the Turks, all of them, from the
Vocabulary
The linguistic data on Khazar consists mostly of
Just two
Khazar was stated by the 1986 Guinness Book of Records (following a claim by the Great Soviet Encyclopedia) to have the "smallest literature" of any language, allegedly comprising only one attested word, oqurüm, "I have read" (from the Kievan Letter).[16]
See also
Notes
- ^ a b Golden 2011, p. 224.
- ^ Golden 2011, p. 151.
- ^ a b Golden 1992, p. 235.
- ^ Golden 2011, p. 151, 224.
- ^ a b c Golden 2011, p. 225.
- ^ a b c Golden 2011, p. 226.
- ISBN 0810861615.
- )
- ^ Erdal 2007, p. 83.
- ^ Golden 2011, p. 227.
- ^ Golden 1992, p. 234–235.
- ^ Golden 2011, p. 227–239.
- ^ Golden 2011, p. 150.
- ^ Erdal 2007, p. 94.
- ^ Róna-Tas, András; Berta, Árpád (2011). West Old Turkic. Vol. 2. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. pp. 1168–1172.
- ISBN 0-8069-0272-8. Retrieved 2022-01-06.
Sources
- ISBN 978-90-04-16042-2.
- ISBN 9783447032742.
- ISBN 9789732721520.