Sub-branch of the Turkic language family
TheKarluk orQarluq languages are a sub-branch of theTurkic language family that developed from the varieties spoken byKarluks .[ 1] By far the largest languages of this branch areUzbek andUyghur .
ManyMiddle Turkic works were written in these languages. The language of theKara-Khanid Khanate was known as Turki, Ferghani, Kashgari or Khaqani. The language of theChagatai Khanate was theChagatai language .
Karluk Turkic was once spoken in theKara-Khanid Khanate ,Chagatai Khanate ,Timurid Empire ,Mughal Empire ,Yarkent Khanate and the Uzbek-speakingKhanate of Bukhara ,Emirate of Bukhara ,Kokand Khanate ,Khiva Khanate ,Maimana Khanate .[ 2]
Glottolog v.5.0 refers to the Karluk languages as "Turkistan Turkic" and classifies them as follows:[ 6]
^ Austin, Peter (2008).One Thousand Languages: Living, Endangered, and Lost . University of California Press. p. 145.ISBN 978-0-520-25560-9 .^ McChesney, R. D. (14 July 2014).Waqf in Central Asia: Four Hundred Years in the History of a Muslim Shrine, 1480-1889 . Princeton University Press.ISBN 978-1-4008-6196-5 . ^ Uzbek at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)Northern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required)Southern at Ethnologue (18th ed., 2015) (subscription required) ^ "Uyghur" .Ethnologue . Retrieved7 December 2022 .^ Glottlog 5.0 places this withOld Turkic . ^ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds. (2017)."Karluk languages" .Glottolog 3.0 . Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History.