Chagatai
extinct Turkic language of Central Asia
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Summary
Chagatai is a historical language[1]. Chagatai draws 3,701 Wikipedia views per month (historical language category, ranking #3 of 29).[2]
Key Facts
- Country: Mughal Empire[3], Turkmenistan[4], Soviet Union[5], Emirate of Bukhara[6], Khanate of Bukhara[7], Timurid Empire[8], Moghulistan[9], Ottoman Empire[10], Khanate of Khiva[11], Khanate of Kokand[12], Yarkent Khanate[13], Crimean Khanate[14], Chagatai Khanate[15], Kazakh Khanate[16]
- Subclass of: Karluk[17]
- Writing system: Arabic alphabet[18], Latin script[19], Chagatai alphabet[20]
- Dissolved, abolished or demolished date: 1921[21]
- Topic's main category: Category:Chagatai language[22]
- Described at URL: https://turkic.elegantlexicon.com/lx.php?lx=chg[23]
- Number of speakers, writers, or signers: 0[24]
- Described by source: Encyclopedic Lexicon[25], Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[26]
- Replaced by: Uzbek[27], Uyghur[28]
- UNESCO language status: 6 extinct[29]
- Indigenous to: Ahal Region[30], Ashgabat[31]
- Exact match: http://publications.europa.eu/resource/authority/language/CHG[32]
- Ethnologue language status: 10 Extinct[33]
- Linguistic typology: subject–object–verb[34], agglutinative language[35]
- Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Languages[36], WikiProject Central Asia[37]
- Wikimedia Incubator URL: https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/chg[38]
Why It Matters
Chagatai has Wikipedia articles in 28 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[39] Chagatai is known by 70 alternative names across languages and contexts.[40]