Southeastern Turkic

E101483

branch of language family subgroup of Turkic languages

Southeastern Turkic is a major branch of the Turkic language family that includes languages such as Uyghur and Uzbek, primarily spoken in Central Asia.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Common Turkic	4
Southeastern Common Turkic	1
Southeastern Turkic canonical	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T771790 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.

NED1 Entity disambiguation (via context triple) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Southeastern Turkic
Context triple: [Southwestern Turkic, contrastsWith, Southeastern Turkic]

A. Southwestern Turkic
Southwestern Turkic is a major branch of the Turkic language family that includes languages such as Turkish, Azerbaijani, and Turkmen, primarily spoken across Anatolia, the Caucasus, and parts of Central and Western Asia.
B. Chagatai Turkic
Chagatai Turkic is a historical Turkic literary language that served as a major cultural and administrative lingua franca in Central Asia, especially under Turkic-Mongol and Timurid rule.
C. Khorasani Turkic
Khorasani Turkic is a Turkic language variety spoken primarily in northeastern Iran, especially in the Khorasan region, by Khorasani Turk communities.
D. Turkic languages
The Turkic languages are a family of closely related languages spoken across a vast area from Eastern Europe and Anatolia through Central Asia to Siberia and Western China, including major languages such as Turkish, Azerbaijani, Uzbek, and Kazakh.
E. Kipchak languages
The Kipchak languages are a branch of the Turkic language family historically spoken by the Kipchak Turkic peoples across the Eurasian steppe, including groups such as the Crimean Tatars, Kazakhs, and Kyrgyz.
F. None of above. chosen
G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

NED2 Entity disambiguation (via description) gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07

Target entity: Southeastern Turkic
Target entity description: Southeastern Turkic is a major branch of the Turkic language family that includes languages such as Uyghur and Uzbek, primarily spoken in Central Asia.

A. Southwestern Turkic
Southwestern Turkic is a major branch of the Turkic language family that includes languages such as Turkish, Azerbaijani, and Turkmen, primarily spoken across Anatolia, the Caucasus, and parts of Central and Western Asia.
B. Chagatai Turkic
Chagatai Turkic is a historical Turkic literary language that served as a major cultural and administrative lingua franca in Central Asia, especially under Turkic-Mongol and Timurid rule.
C. Khorasani Turkic
Khorasani Turkic is a Turkic language variety spoken primarily in northeastern Iran, especially in the Khorasan region, by Khorasani Turk communities.
D. Turkic languages
The Turkic languages are a family of closely related languages spoken across a vast area from Eastern Europe and Anatolia through Central Asia to Siberia and Western China, including major languages such as Turkish, Azerbaijani, Uzbek, and Kazakh.
E. Kipchak languages
The Kipchak languages are a branch of the Turkic language family historically spoken by the Kipchak Turkic peoples across the Eurasian steppe, including groups such as the Crimean Tatars, Kazakhs, and Kyrgyz.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	branch of language family ⓘ subgroup of Turkic languages ⓘ
alsoKnownAs	Karluk ⓘ Karluk Turkic ⓘ linked to: Chagatai Turkic
classifiedBy	comparative Turkology ⓘ
contrastedWith	Kipchak Turkic ⓘ linked to: Kipchak languages Northeastern Turkic ⓘ Oghuz Turkic ⓘ linked to: Oghuz Turkic language Siberian Turkic ⓘ linked to: Northeastern Turkic
developedFrom	Karakhani Turkic ⓘ linked to: Chagatai Turkic Old Turkic ⓘ linked to: Old Turkic language
glottologCode	karl1249 ⓘ
hasCharacteristic	shares Karluk-type morphological features ⓘ shares Karluk-type phonological features ⓘ
hasFeature	SOV basic word order ⓘ agglutinative morphology ⓘ extensive vowel harmony with some reductions ⓘ
hasMajorLanguage	Uyghur language ⓘ Uzbek language ⓘ linked to: Uzbek
hasMember	Ili Turki language ⓘ Lop Nur dialects ⓘ Uyghur language ⓘ Uzbek language ⓘ linked to: Uzbek Äynu language ⓘ
hasNotableLanguageStandard	Standard Uyghur ⓘ linked to: Modern Uyghur Standard Uzbek ⓘ linked to: Uzbek
hasWritingSystem	Arabic script ⓘ Cyrillic script ⓘ Latin script ⓘ
historicalCenter	Tarim Basin ⓘ Transoxiana ⓘ
languageFamily	Turkic ⓘ
partOf	Turkic language family ⓘ linked to: Turkic languages
relatedTo	Kipchak languages ⓘ Oghuz languages ⓘ linked to: Oghuz Turkic language
spokenInRegion	Afghanistan ⓘ Central Asia ⓘ China ⓘ Kazakhstan ⓘ Kyrgyzstan ⓘ Tajikistan ⓘ Uzbekistan ⓘ Xinjiang ⓘ
subfamilyOf	Common Turkic ⓘ
usedFor	interethnic communication in parts of Central Asia ⓘ

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