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Turkic

Closely related languages spoken from the Balkans to Siberia and western China: Turkish, Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Uyghur, Tatar, Bashkir, Yakut and others. Chuvash is the only living member of the separate Bolgar (Oghur) branch.

15 languages on this site · c. 191 million speakers in total (sum of estimates, bilingual people counted more than once) · the main official language in 5 countries.

Highlighted countries: the main official language belongs to this family.

Oghuz 3

  1. Turkish 82 million
  2. Azerbaijani 32 million
  3. Turkmen 7.2 million

Karluk 2

  1. Uzbek 34 million
  2. Uyghur 8.2 million

Kipchak 7

  1. Kazakh 15 million
  2. Kyrgyz 3.4 million
  3. Tatar 3.4 million
  4. Kara-Kalpak 1.5 million
  5. Bashkir 1.1 million
  6. Kumyk 422 thousand
  7. Karachay-Balkar 282 thousand

Bolgar (Oghur) 1

  1. Chuvash 1.8 million

Yakut (Sakha) 1

  1. Yakut 394 thousand

South Siberian 1

  1. Tuvinian 268 thousand

Family tree

Subgroups according to Glottolog with the languages that are in the atlas – click to expand.

Common Turkic 14
Oghuz › Nuclear Oghuz 3
West Oghuz 1
Central Oghuz 1
East Oghuz 1
Kipchak-Turkestan 9
Karluk › Modern Turkestan 2
Uyghuric 1
Kipchak 7
Southeast Kipchak 3
South Kipchak 2
East Kipchak 1
Northwest Kipchak 4
North Kipchak › Bashkiric 2
West Kipchak › Kaukasus Kipchak 2
Yakut (Sakha) 1
South Siberian › Sayan-Yenisei Turkic › Sayan 1
Bolgar (Oghur) 1

Classification: Glottolog (CC BY 4.0). Branches are selected nodes of the Glottolog tree.