Khorezmian Turkic Explained

Khorezmian Turkic
Region:	Golden Horde, Chagatai Khanate
Era:	13th–14th century
Familycolor:	Altaic
Fam1:	Turkic
Fam2:	Common Turkic
Fam3:	Karluk
Ancestor:	Karakhanid
Iso3:	zkh
Linglist:	zkh
Glotto:	none
Speakers2:	developed into Chagatai

Khorezmian Turkic or Khwārazm Turkish (called Türki by its early user Nāṣir al-Dīn ibn Burhān al-Dīn Rabghūzī)^[1] was a literary Turkic language^[2] of the medieval Golden Horde of Central Asia and Eastern Europe in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries CE.

Relationship to other languages

Khorezmian Turkic is generally thought to have emerged from the Karakhanid language and to have transitioned into the Chagatai language, which would remain an important language of Central Asia until the twentieth century. Khorezmian was based on Old Turkic further to the east, though incorporating local Oghuz and Kipchak words.

Texts in Khorezmian

• ^[3]
• Qiṣaṣ-i Rabghūzī^[4]
• Nahjatü l-farādīs

References

• Johanson & Johanson, 2003, The Turkic Languages

Notes and References

1. M. van Damme, "Rabghūzī", in Encyclopaedia of Islam, ed. by P. Bearman and others, 2nd edn (Leiden: Brill, 1960–2005), .
2. Book: Bill Hickman. Turkic Language, Literature, and History: Travelers' Tales, Sultans, and Scholars Since the Eighth Century. 14 October 2015. Routledge. 978-1-317-61295-7. 139–.
3. Book: Saʻdī. Sayf Sarāyī. A fourteenth century Turkic translation of Saʽdī's Gulistān: Sayf-i Sarāyī's Gulistān biʼt-Turkī. 1970. Indiana University. 22.
4. Book: H.E. Boeschoten. J. O'Kane. Al-Rabghūzī The Stories of the Prophets (2 vols.): Qiṣaṣ al-Anbiyā': An Eastern Turkish Version. 6 July 2015. BRILL. 978-90-04-29483-7. Second.