Orkhon Turkic

Orkhon Turkic
Orkhon Turkic
Orkhon Uyghur, Göktürk
	Kul Tigin stele, of the Orkhon inscription
Region	Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Eastern Asia
Ethnicity	Göktürks, Yenisei Kyrgyz
Era	5th–8th century
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Siberian Turkic Southern Siberian Old Turkic Orkhon Turkic; ; ; ; ;
Dialects	Orkhon; Yenisei Kyrgyz;
Writing system	Old Turkic
Language codes
ISO 639-3	otk
Glottolog	orkh1234

Orkhon Turkic (also Göktürk) is the earliest version of Old Turkic, known as the oldest Turkic literary language, preceding Old Uyghur. It is the language in which the Orkhon and Yenisei inscriptions are written.^[1]^[2]

^ Tekin, Talât (1968). A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (PDF). Bloomington: Indiana University. ISBN 978-0700708697.
^ Erdal, Marcel (2004-01-01). A Grammar Of Old Turkic. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-10294-1.

[:2-1] Tekin, Talât (1968). A Grammar of Orkhon Turkic (PDF). Bloomington: Indiana University. ISBN 978-0700708697.

[2] Erdal, Marcel (2004-01-01). A Grammar Of Old Turkic. BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-10294-1.

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