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    TURKIC

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A subfamily of Altaic languagesplay

    Synonyms:

    Turki; Turkic; Turkic language; Turko-Tatar

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("Turkic" is a kind of...):

    Altaic; Altaic language (a group of related languages spoken in Asia and southeastern Europe)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Turkic"):

    Turkish (a Turkic language spoken by the Turks)

    Turcoman; Turkmen; Turkoman (the Turkic language spoken by the Turkoman)

    Azerbaijani (the Turkic language spoken by the Azerbaijani)

    Kazak; Kazakh (the Turkic language spoken by the Kazak)

    Tatar (the Turkic language spoken by the Tatar living from the Volga to the Ural Mountains)

    Usbeg; Usbek; Uzbak; Uzbeg; Uzbek (the Turkic language spoken by the Uzbek)

    Uighur; Uigur; Uygur (the Turkic language spoken by approximately 7,000,000 Uighur in extreme northwestern China)

    Yakut (the Turkic language spoken by the Yakut)

    Khirghiz; Kirghiz; Kirgiz (the Turkic language spoken by the Kirghiz)

    Karakalpak (the Turkic language spoken by the Karakalpak)

    Chuvash (the Turkic language spoken by the Chuvash)

    Chagatai; Eastern Turki; Jagatai; Jaghatai (a Turkic literary language of medieval central Asia (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan))

     II. (adjective) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Of or relating to the people who speak the Turkic languageplay

    Classified under:

    Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

    Pertainym:

    Turki (a subfamily of Altaic languages)

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