Salchuq language

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Salchuq
Native toIran
ExtinctBy 2013[1]
Persian alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3slq
Glottologsalc1238
LinguaspherePart of 44-AAB-a

Salchuq (also Seljuk) is an extinct Turkic variety spoken in Iran. It was probably a dialect of Azerbaijani.[1] The name comes from the Seljuk Turks, who brought Turkic dialects to Persia and Anatolia. It mostly likely broke off from the Oghuz languages in the 1000s.[2]

References[]

  1. ^ a b Salchuq at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
  2. ^ "Glottolog 4.3 - Salchuq". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2020-10-13.


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