Chagatai language
Chagatai language is one of the extinct Turkic languages spoken in Central Asia. Chagatai was a member of the eastern Turkic branch of the Altaic languages family and was a literary language from the Timur period and the Timurids until the early twentieth century.
| Chagatai | |
|---|---|
| جغتای <span title="Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Language/data/ISO 639 override' not found. transliteration" class="Unicode" style="white-space:normal; text-decoration: none">Jağatāy | |
| Region | Central Asia |
| Era | 15th to early 20th century |
| Language family | Turkic
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| Official status | |
| Official language in | Chagatai Khanate Mughal Empire Qing dynasty |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-2 | chg |
| ISO 639-3 | chg |
| Linguist List | chg |
Chagatai Language Media
Chagatai (Çağatāy) written in Arabic script in Nastaliq style.
Lizheng Gate at the Chengde Mountain Resort. The second column from the left is the Chagatai language written in Perso-Arabic Nastaʿlīq script which reads Rawshan Otturādiqi Darwāza.
Late 15th century Chagatai Turkic text in Nastaliq script.
