Talk:𐱃𐰆𐰖𐰆𐰍

Irk Bitig was written in Old Uyghur.

As far as I know, Irk Bitig was written in Old Uyghur.

Yes, it is in Old Turkic, but since we accept Old Turkic as Orkhon-Yenisei Turkic, it can be included in the Old Uyghur category. What do you think? BurakD53 (talk) 02:14, 7 September 2023 (UTC)

The truth is that there is no major distinction between Old Turkic and Old Uyghur which is why some like Erdal don't seperate at all. What seperation there is is on the bases of Scriptual (which is what Wiktionary uses to seperate) and Vocabulary differences. For example, in IB the word for "bad" is still anyıg, whereas in Old Uyghur texts it's usually ayıg or the usage of "amarı" in Old Uyghur texts being completely absent in IB. Most dictionaries also place IB under OTK. There are also some grammatical features in Old Uyghur that aren't seen in Old Turkic including Irk Bitig, however we can't be sure if they just didn't need to use them or not. An example is the 2nd person imperative particle "çu" or distributive suffix -(r)Ar. Yorınçga573 (talk) 09:38, 7 September 2023 (UTC)

OK, I see. I remember that /ny/ is two different dialects in Uyghur texts as /n/ and /y/, and Irk Bitig does not have either of these features. That makes it Old Turkic. BurakD53 (talk) 10:56, 7 September 2023 (UTC)