Chagatai
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See also: chagatai
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Named after the Chagatai Khanate, a medieval Mongol and later Turkicized khanate, itself named after Chagatai Khan, a son of Genghis Khan, from Middle Mongolian ᠴᠠᠭᠠᠲᠠᠶ (čaɣatay).[1]
Proper noun[edit]
Chagatai
- An extinct literary Turkic language used in Central Asia and Bashkortostan until the twentieth century.
- Chagatai Khan, the second son of Genghis Khan and Khan of the Chagatai Khanate, after whom the Chagatai language and Chagatai people are named.
Translations[edit]
extinct Turkic language
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second son of Genghis Khan
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Noun[edit]
Chagatai pl (plural only)
- An ethnic group of Uzbekistan.
References[edit]
- ^ Vladimir Babak; Demian Vaisman; Aryeh Wasserman (23 November 2004). Political Organization in Central Asia and Azerbaijan: Sources and Documents. Routledge. pp. 343
Further reading[edit]
- ISO 639-3 code chg (SIL)
- Ethnologue entry for Chagatai, chg