Karakhanid language

Karakhanid
Khaqani
Türki/Türkçe
Native toKara-Khanid Khanate
RegionCentral Asia
Era11th century
Language codes
ISO 639-3xqa
xqa
Glottologqara1244

Karakhanid, also known as Khaqani Turkic (lit. meaning 'imperial'[1] or 'royal',[2] self referring to as 'Türki' or 'Türkçe'),[3] was a Turkic language developed in the 11th century during the Middle Turkic period under the Kara-Khanid Khanate. It has been described as the first literary Islamic Turkic language. It is sometimes classified under the Old Turkic category, rather than Middle Turkic, as it is contemporary to the East Old Turkic languages of Orkhon Turkic and Old Uyghur. Eastern Middle Turkic languages, namely Khorezmian Turkic and later Chagatai are descendants of the Karakhanid language.[4]

Karakhanid vocabulary was influenced by Arabic and Persian loanwords, but the language itself was still noted to be similar to the Old Uyghur language. The language was written using the Arabic script. Mahmud al-Kashgari's Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk and Yūsuf Balasaguni's Kutadgu Bilig are considered to be important literary works written in Karakhanid language.[4]

  1. ^ Jan P. Beckmann; Wolfgang Kluxen (1981). Sprache und Erkenntnis im Mittelalter. p. 832.
  2. ^ Svatopluk Soucek (2000). A history of inner Asia. p. 89.
  3. ^ Yusuf Has Hacib. Kutadğu Bilig. Translated by Mustafa S. Kaçalin. T. C. Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı Kütüphaneler ve Yayımlar Genel Mudürlüğü. p. 3. ISBN 978-975-17-3359-7.
  4. ^ a b Johanson, Lars; Csató, Éva Á (2015-04-29). The Turkic Languages. Routledge. p. 85. ISBN 978-1-136-82527-9.