Salchuq language
Appearance
Salchuq | |
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Native to | Iran |
Extinct | By 2013[1] |
Persian alphabet | |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-3 | slq |
Glottolog | salc1238 |
Linguasphere | Part 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
- ^ a b Salchuq at Ethnologue (17th ed., 2013)
- ^ "Glottolog 4.3 - Salchuq". glottolog.org. Retrieved 2020-10-13.