Kipchak | |
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Northwestern Turkic | |
Geographic distribution | Central Asia, Russia, Northern Caucasus, Balkans, Anatolia, Ukraine, China |
Ethnicity | Kipchaks |
Linguistic classification | Turkic
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Glottolog | kipc1239 |
The Kipchak languages (also known as the Kypchak, Qypchaq, Qypshaq or the Northwestern Turkic languages) are a sub-branch of the Turkic language family spoken by approximately 30 million people in much of Central Asia and Eastern Europe, spanning from Ukraine to China. Some of the most widely spoken languages in this group are Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and Tatar.