Chagatai | |
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جغتای Jağatāy | |
Region | Central Asia |
Era | 15th to early 20th century |
Turkic
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Official status | |
Official language in | Chagatai Khanate Mughal Empire Qing dynasty |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-2 | chg |
ISO 639-3 | chg |
chg | |
Glottolog | chag1247 |
Chagatai language is one of the extinct Turkic languages spoken in Central Asia. Chagatai was a member of the eastern Turkic branch of the Altaic languages family and was a literary language from the Timur period and the Timurids until the early twentieth century.