Türkic

A form of Turkic — Of or relating to the Turkic peoples or the Turkic languages.

Meanings

adjectiveTürkic (not comparable)
  1. not comparablerareRare spelling of Turkic.

    These toponyms cannot be Türkic by origin, for they are encountered in places where Türks have never lived.

    1970, Trudy VII Mezhdunarodnogo kongressa antropologicheskikh i ėtnograficheskikh nauk: […], page 730
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    “In Türkic poetry, a banner I did hoist, and master of this land I did become.” (In those days the Uzbek language was known as Türkic.)

    1947, Soviet Literature, page 66, column 1

    In the sixties of the sixth century Central Asia was conquered by the Türkic nomads and came under the rule of the Türkic Kaghanate that was established in the Altai region and in Semirechye.

    1965, A Short History of the USSR, Moscow: Progress Publishers, page 29

    In terms of the Türkic writing, the Uighürs and the Kirghiz had, at some points in their histories, used the Türkic script as well, on top of employing other scripts or alphabets in their written languages.

    2011, Rachel Lung, “Türkish diplomatic correspondence to Sui China (581–618)”, in Interpreters in Early Imperial China, Amsterdam; Philadelphia, Pa.: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN, section “The Türk and its relations with Sui China”, page 48

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