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( Old Turkic language)
Old Turkic (also East Old Turkic, Orkhon Turkic, Old Uyghur) is the earliest attested Turkic language, found in inscriptions by the Göktürks and the Uyghurs in ca. the 7th to 13th centuries AD. It cannot be considered a direct predecessor of the Uyghur language, but elements of Old Turkic can be traced in Middle Turkic such as Chagatai. Old Turkic is now considered as belonging to the Southeastern Common Turkic branch of Turkic languages. Sources of Old Turkic are divided into three corpora Old Turkic has nine vowel qualities—a, e, e, i, ï, o, ö, u, ü—distinct only in the first syllable of a word, collapsed into four classes elsewhere—a, e, ï, i. The consonantal system distinguishes between unvoiced, voiced (with fricative variants) and nasal
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