Turkicadj.n.
/ˈtəːkɪk/, U.S. /ˈtərkɪk/ 1. Designating one of the branches of the Ural-Altaic or Turanian family of languages, which comprises the Samoyedic, Finnic, Ugric, Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic; the Turkic branch comprises Eastern Turki or Uigur (including Chaghatai and Turconian), West Turki or Seljúk and Osmanli, Kazan Tartar, Kirghiz, Nogai, Yakut, etc., the languages of the Turks (in the wide sense): cf. Turkish adj. and n., Tartar n.2, and Turcic adj. Also as n.
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Turkic1859
1859 B. W. Dwight Mod. Philol. 124 The Turkic [languages].
1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 2/2 Turkic lies much closer to Mongolic than it does to Samoyedic and Tungusic.
1892 S. Laing Human Origins (1894) iii. 86 Various Turkic and Mongolian dialects.
2. Designating or relating to the peoples using these languages.
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1863 C. L. Brace Races Old World (New York ed.) xi. 120 Another Turanian tribe are the Khazars, probably Finnic, though with Turkic mixture. They appear in Europe between the 7th and 10th century,..between the Caspian and the Dnieper. They are followed by the Pechenegs, a Turkic tribe, who occupy Bessarabia, Cherson, and part of Taurida, in the 10th and 11th centuries.
1875–6 G. Rawlinson Orig. Nations (1878) i. i. 4 The Muscovite and Turkic hordes are becoming scarce distinguishable from other Europeans.
1878 N. Amer. Rev. 126 557 The Magyars received the knowledge of southern products and of agriculture from their Turkic neighbors.
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