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# turkic

«turkic» in Mova's school dictionary: **Turkic describes a family of related languages, including…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (Turkic — capital T)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Turkic describes a family of related languages, including Turkish, Azerbaijani, Kazakh, Uzbek, Kyrgyz, Turkmen, Uyghur and Tatar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turkic/#m1)

2) It also describes the peoples who speak these languages and their cultures. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turkic/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In geography and history lessons it names a large group of peoples across Central Asia, Turkey and parts of Russia and China. Phrases: Turkic languages, Turkic peoples.

### examples

- Turkish and Kazakh are both Turkic languages. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turkic/#x1)
- Turkic peoples live from Turkey to Siberia. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turkic/#x2)
- Many Turkic languages are written in Latin or Cyrillic letters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turkic/#x3)
- The Crimean Tatars speak a Turkic language. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turkic/#x4)
- Words in Turkic languages are built by adding many endings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turkic/#x5)
- Uzbek is the Turkic language with the most speakers after Turkish. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turkic/#x6)

### note

Written with a capital T. Trap: Turkic is the whole family; Turkish is just one language in it, spoken in Turkey. Not the same as turkey the bird.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «turkic» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/turkic/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.