Belongs here: Turkish, Azerbaijani, Kazakh, Uzbek, Turkmen, Kyrgyz. Does not belong here: Mongolian or a Tungusic language; despite the historical "Altaic" hypothesis once grouping Turkic with Mongolic and Tungusic, current mainstream classification (Glottolog) treats them as independent families and this tree keeps them in separate subcategories.
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1. Wikipedia: Turkic Languages
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Turkic languages are spoken by some 200 million people.
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