turkic

/T ER1 K IH0 K/
adjective
  1. 1

    Of or relating to the Turkic peoples or the Turkic languages.

noun
  1. 1

    The language family that includes Turkish, Tatar, Bashkir, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azeri, Kyrgyz, Uyghur, Tuvan, Altai, Shor, Karakalpak, Khakas, Chuvash, Yakut, and any of the other dozens of languages spoken by Turkic peoples. It may be a subfamily of an Altaic language family.

  2. 2

    Any language of that family.

  3. 3

    Any branch of that family.