Khorezmian Turkic or Khwārazm Turkish (called Türki by its early user Nāṣir al-Dīn ibn Burhān al-Dīn Rabghūzī)[1] was a literary Turkic language[2] of the medieval Golden Horde of Central Asia and Eastern Europe in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries CE.
| Khorezmian Turkic | |
|---|---|
| Türki | |
 | |
| Region | Golden Horde, Chagatai Khanate |
| Era | 13th–14th century developed into Chagatai |
Turkic
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Early form | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | zkh |
zkh | |
| Glottolog | None |
Relationship to other languages
editKhorezmian Turkic is generally thought to have emerged from the Karakhanid language and to have transitioned into the Chagatai language, which would remain an important language of Central Asia until the twentieth century. Khorezmian was based on Old Turkic further to the east, though incorporating local Oghuz and Kipchak words.[1]
Texts in Khorezmian
editReferences
edit- ^ a b M. van Damme, "Rabghūzī", in Encyclopaedia of Islam, ed. by P. Bearman and others, 2nd edn (Leiden: Brill, 1960–2005), doi:10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_6156.
- ^ Bill Hickman (14 October 2015). Turkic Language, Literature, and History: Travelers' Tales, Sultans, and Scholars Since the Eighth Century. Routledge. pp. 139–. ISBN 978-1-317-61295-7.
- ^ Saʻdī; Sayf Sarāyī (1970). A fourteenth century Turkic translation of Saʽdī's Gulistān: Sayf-i Sarāyī's Gulistān biʼt-Turkī. Indiana University. p. 22.
- ^ a b H.E. Boeschoten; J. O'Kane (6 July 2015). Al-Rabghūzī The Stories of the Prophets (2 vols.): Qiṣaṣ al-Anbiyā': An Eastern Turkish Version (Second ed.). BRILL. ISBN 978-90-04-29483-7.
- Johanson & Johanson, 2003, The Turkic Languages