Pecheneg language
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| Pecheneg | |
|---|---|
| Region | Central Europe, Eastern Europe |
| Era | 7th-12th century |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | xpc |
xpc | |
| Glottolog | pech1242 |
Pecheneg is an extinct Turkic language spoken by the Pechenegs in Eastern Europe (parts of Southern Ukraine, Southern Russia, Moldova, Romania and Hungary) in the 7th–12th centuries. However, names in this language (Beke, Wochun, Lechk, etc.) are reported from Hatvan until 1290.[1]
Classification
Pecheneg was most likely a member of the
weasel words] would be fairly confident in placing it among the Oghuz languages, but would refuse to classify it further,[citation needed] though it is placed in the Kipchak language family in Glottolog and in the Kipchak–Cuman language family in Linguist List
.
Byzantine princess Anna Komnene asserts that the Pechenegs and Cumans spoke the same language,[3] while Mahmud al-Kashgari considered their language to be a corrupted form of Turkic.[4]
References
- ^ Wenzel, Gusztáv (1860). Codex diplomaticus Arpadianus continuatus =: Árpádkori új okmánytár (in Latin). Harvard University: Eggenberger Ferdinánd Akademiai. p. 108.
- ^ Баскаков, Н. А. Тюркские языки, Москва 1960, с. 126–131.
- ISBN 9780343146429. Retrieved 15 May 2016.
- OCLC 1245959323.)
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