Common Turkic, also called Shaz Turkic, is a proposed genetic unit within some classifications of the Turkic languages, comprising all Turkic languages except the earlier-diverging Oghuric languages. Under the influential classification proposed by linguist Lars Johanson, Common Turkic splits into five branches: Oghuz (southwestern), Kipchak (northwestern), Karluk (southeastern), Siberian Turkic (northeastern) and Arghu, also called Khalaj. The branch is distinguished from Oghuric by specific sound correspondences, such as Common Turkic sh where Oghuric has l, and its languages together span a vast Eurasian range from southern and eastern Europe through western, central and north Asia into east Asia.
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Proto-Language StatusCommon Turkic (also called Shaz Turkic) is not an independently named reconstructed proto-language but a proposed genetic subgroup within Turkic comprising every branch except the earlier-diverging Oghuric languages. 1 Common Turkic has no separately named reconstructed proto-language of its own; it is a proposed classificatory subgroup, not a settled clade distinct from ordinary Turkic. RegionSouthern Europe, Eastern Europe, Western Asia, Central Asia, North Asia, East Asia 1 Connections
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Common Turkic groups every Turkic language apart from Khalaj and Chuvash, which each split off earliest from the family.
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1. Wikipedia: Common Turkic languages
Wikimedia FoundationInfobox region field, English Wikipedia article Common Turkic languages
Southern Europe, Eastern Europe, Western Asia, Central Asia, North Asia, East Asia
Lead sentence, English Wikipedia article Common Turkic languages
Common Turkic or Shaz Turkic is a proposed genetic unit in some classifications of the Turkic languages, a sub-branch that includes all of them except the Oghuric languages, which had diverged earlier.
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