Old Turkic language

E124648

Turkic language historical language language

Old Turkic language is an early Turkic language known from runic inscriptions and manuscripts, serving as the historical ancestor of many modern Turkic languages.

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All labels observed (7)

Label	Occurrences
Old Turkic	15
Old Turkic language canonical	4
Old Uyghur language	2
Orkhon Turkic	2
Archaic Turkic	1
Göktürk language	1
Old Turkic languages	1

How this entity was disambiguated

This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1055485 — 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: Old Turkic language
Context triple: [Bashkir language, hasAncestor, Old Turkic language]

A. 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.
B. Proto-Turkic
Proto-Turkic is the reconstructed common ancestor language of all Turkic languages, from which branches like Southwestern Turkic later evolved.
C. 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.
D. Tocharian languages
The Tocharian languages were an extinct branch of the Indo-European family once spoken in the Tarim Basin of Central Asia, known from early medieval manuscripts and notable for their archaic linguistic features.
E. Oghuz Turkic language
Oghuz Turkic language is a major branch of the Turkic language family that includes modern languages such as Turkish, Azerbaijani, and Turkmen.
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: Old Turkic language
Target entity description: Old Turkic language is an early Turkic language known from runic inscriptions and manuscripts, serving as the historical ancestor of many modern Turkic languages.

A. 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.
B. Proto-Turkic
Proto-Turkic is the reconstructed common ancestor language of all Turkic languages, from which branches like Southwestern Turkic later evolved.
C. 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.
D. Tocharian languages
The Tocharian languages were an extinct branch of the Indo-European family once spoken in the Tarim Basin of Central Asia, known from early medieval manuscripts and notable for their archaic linguistic features.
E. Oghuz Turkic language
Oghuz Turkic language is a major branch of the Turkic language family that includes modern languages such as Turkish, Azerbaijani, and Turkmen.
F. None of above. chosen

Statements (53)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Turkic language ⓘ historical language ⓘ language ⓘ
alternativeName	Old Turkic ⓘ linked to: Old Turkic language Old Turkic Turkic ⓘ
ancestorOf	Azerbaijani ⓘ linked to: Azerbaijani language Bashkir ⓘ Kazakh ⓘ linked to: Kazakh language Kyrgyz ⓘ Modern Turkish ⓘ linked to: Turkish language Tatar ⓘ Turkmen ⓘ linked to: Turkmen language Uyghur ⓘ linked to: Uyghur language Uzbek ⓘ other modern Turkic languages ⓘ
branch	Oghuric–Common Turkic split (Common Turkic side) ⓘ
directionOfWriting	right-to-left ⓘ
era	10th century ⓘ 7th century ⓘ 8th century ⓘ 9th century ⓘ
extinction	around 13th century ⓘ
glottocode	oldt1248 ⓘ
hasPhonologicalFeature	vowel harmony ⓘ
ISO639-3	otk ⓘ
languageFamily	Turkic ⓘ
linguisticType	agglutinative language ⓘ
morphology	suffixing ⓘ
partOf	Turkic language family ⓘ
primarySources	Dunhuang manuscripts ⓘ linked to: Dunhuang Orkhon inscriptions ⓘ Talagan inscriptions ⓘ Turfan manuscripts ⓘ Yenisei inscriptions ⓘ
region	Central Asia ⓘ Mongolia ⓘ Siberia ⓘ Xinjiang ⓘ
scriptType	alphabet ⓘ
standardForm	Orkhon Turkic ⓘ linked to: Old Turkic language
status	extinct ⓘ
subclassOf	Common Turkic ⓘ
timePeriod	early Middle Ages ⓘ
usedBy	Göktürk Khaganate ⓘ Old Uyghur communities ⓘ Uyghur Khaganate ⓘ
wordOrder	SOV ⓘ
writingSystem	Brahmi script ⓘ Manichaean script ⓘ Old Turkic script ⓘ Syriac script ⓘ linked to: Syriac alphabet Uyghur script ⓘ linked to: Uyghur Arabic alphabet runic script ⓘ

How these facts were elicited