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{{distinguish|Old Turkic language}} {{Short description|Reconstructed ancestor of Turkic languages}}
{{More footnotes|date=June 2011}} {{Use American English|date = February 2019}}
The '''Proto-Turkic language''' is the hypothetical ] of the family of ] that predates the separation of the ] and separation into Oghuz and Oghur branches by approximately 4500-4000 BCE.<ref>Barış Kabak: . Turkic migrations and primary long vowels, A brief sketch of the history of Turkic, p. 353.
* Quote: '''»'''Turkic languages are the westernmost branch of the Altaic family, which is hypothesized to have come into existence around 4500–4000 BC.'''«'''</ref><ref name="Johanson68">]. “''The Reconstruction of Proto-Turkic and the Genetic Question''.” In: , edited by Lars Johanson and Éva Csató, . London: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 1998. ISBN 0-415-08200-5.
* Quote: '''»'''In the region concerning us here, the Neolithic Period started at about 4500-4000 BC. If Proto-Turkic reflects a language of the first period, it began around this time. If there was an earlier proto-language, e.g. a language in the sense of a reconstructed Proto-Altaic, Proto-Turkic came into existence only after its dissolution. The lower limit of Proto-Turkic is the time of the appearance of the first direct data from existing Turkic languages, in fact after the separation of the branches of Turkic, i.e. about the middle of the first millenium BC. ... In early Ancient Turkic, from about 3000 until 500 BC, no stabilised dialects can be assumed.'''«'''</ref><ref>Erik Gren, ''Orientalia Suecana'', vol. 49, Almquist & Wiksell Periodical Company, 2000,
* Quote: '''»'''"The Reconstruction of Proto-Turkic and the Genetic Question" (67-80) first defines the concept and aims of reconstructing a proto-language and gives a rough chronological limit of when Proto-Turkic may be assumed to have started, i.e. the regional beginning of the Neolithic Period, ca. 4500-4000 BC.'''«'''</ref><ref>M. Zakiev, Origin of Turks and Tatars, Moscow, Publishing house ”Insan”, 2002, p.76, ISBN 5-85840-317-4
* Quote: '''»'''In the traditional historical and linguistical sciences is considered to be established that the split of the Uralo-Altai unity onto the Altai and Ural languages has taken place in the 10th millennium BC, i.e. 120 centuries ago, and the split of the Altai unity onto the Türko-Mongolian, Manchurian, Japanese-Korean languages happened in the 6th millennium BC, i.e. 80 centuries ago, the split of the Türko-Mongolian unity onto Türkic and Mongolian languages happened in the 4th millennium BC, i.e. 60 centuries ago.'''«'''</ref> Its speakers are usually connected with the early archaeological horizon of west and central ] and in the region south of it.<ref name="Johanson68"></ref>


{{Infobox proto-language
The oldest records of a Turkic language, the ] ] of the 7th century ] khaganate, already show characteristics of the ] of Turkic, and reconstruction of Proto-Turkic must rely on comparisons of Old Turkic with early sources of the Western branches, ] and ], as well as the ] (], ], ], ], ]). Since attestation of these non-Eastern languages is much more sparse, reconstruction of Proto-Turkic still rests fundamentally on East Old Turkic of the Göktürks.
| name = Proto-Turkic
| region = Probably the ] and ],{{sfn|Robbeets|Savelyev|2017|p=127}} possibly including regions of ]{{sfn|Robbeets|Savelyev|2017|p=127}}
| era = {{c.|3000|500 BCE}}<ref>The Turkic Languages Lars Johanson, Éva Á. Csató · 2015</ref><ref>The Turks in World History Carter V. Findley · 2005, p.17</ref>
| familycolor = Altaic
| target = ]
| child1 = Proto-]
| child2 = Proto-]
}}
{{Wikibook|Proto-Turkic}}
'''Proto-Turkic''' is the ] of the common ancestor of the ] that was spoken by the Proto-Turks before their divergence into the various ]. Proto-Turkic separated into ] (western) and ] (eastern) branches. Candidates for the proto-Turkic homeland range from western ] to ],<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Yunusbayev |first1=Bayazit |last2=Metspalu |first2=Mait |last3=Metspalu |first3=Ene |last4=Valeev |first4=Albert |title=The Genetic Legacy of the Expansion of Turkic-Speaking Nomads across Eurasia |journal=PLOS Genetics |date=21 April 2015 |volume=11 |issue=4 |pages=e1005068 |doi=10.1371/journal.pgen.1005068 |pmid=25898006 |pmc=4405460 |language=en |issn=1553-7404 |doi-access=free }} "The origin and early dispersal history of the Turkic peoples is disputed, with candidates for their ancient homeland ranging from the Transcaspian steppe to Manchuria in Northeast Asia."</ref> with most scholars agreeing that it lay in the eastern part of the Central Asian steppe,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Robbeets |first1=Martine |last2=Savelyev |first2=Alexander |title=Language Dispersal Beyond Farming |date=21 December 2017 |publisher=John Benjamins Publishing Company |isbn=978-90-272-6464-0 |page=127 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5Z5BDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA127 |language=en}} "It is generally agreed among historians and linguists that the starting point of the Turkic migrations was located in the eastern part of the Central Asian steppe (see, e.g., Golden 1992, Kljastornyj & Suktanov 2009; Menges 1995:55). Turkologists use various definitions for describing the Proto-Turkic homeland, but most indicate more or less the same region. While Janhunen (1996:26, 2015:293) locates the Proto-Turkic homeland fairly precisely in Eastern Mongolia, Rona-Tas (1998:88), in a rather general manner, places the last habitat of the Turkic speakers before the disintegration of the family "in west and central Siberia and in the region south of it." The latter localization overlaps in large part with that proposed by Tenisev et al. (2006), who associate the Proto-Turkic urheimat with the vast area stretching from the Ordos Desert in Inner Mongolia to the foothils of the Sayan-Altai mountains in Southern Siberia."</ref> while one author has postulated that Proto-Turkic originated 2,500&nbsp;years ago in ].<ref name="Janhunen">{{cite book |ref=Janhunen_2013 |first=Juha |last=Janhunen |date=2013 |title=Shared Grammaticalization: With special focus on the Transeurasian languages |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3J_6U8N2Wq8C&pg=PA223 |author-link=Juha Janhunen |editor1=Martine Irma Robbeets |editor2=Hubert Cuyckens |page=223 |chapter=Personal pronouns in Core Altaic |publisher=John Benjamins |isbn=9789027205995 }}</ref>

The oldest records of a Turkic language, the ] ] of the 7th&nbsp;century ] ], already shows characteristics of Eastern Common Turkic. For a long time, the reconstruction of Proto-Turkic relied on comparisons of Old Turkic with early sources of the Western Common Turkic branches, such as ] and ], as well as the Western ] proper (], ], ]). Because early attestation of these non-easternmost languages is much more sparse, reconstruction of Proto-Turkic still rests fundamentally on the easternmost Old Turkic of the ], however it now also includes a more comprehensive analysis of all written and spoken forms of the language.{{sfn|Róna-Tas|1998|pp=69}}

The Proto-Turkic language shows evidence of influence from several neighboring language groups, including ], ], and ].{{sfn|Róna-Tas|1998|pp=78}}


==Phonology== ==Phonology==
=== Consonants ===
The consonant system had a two-way contrast of ]s (]), ''k, p, t'' vs. ''g, b, d''. There was also an ], ''ç''; at least one ] ''s'' and ]s ''m, n, ń, ŋ, r, l'' with a full series of ]. Some scholars additionally reconstruct the ] sounds ''ĺ'' and ''ŕ'' for the correspondence sets ] /l/ ~ ] *š and Oghuric /r/ ~ Common Turkic *z. Most scholars, however, assume that these are the regular reflexes of Proto-Turkic *l and *r.{{sfn|Róna-Tas|1998|pp=71–72}} Oghuric is thus sometimes referred to as '''Lir-Turkic''' and Common Turkic as '''Shaz-Turkic'''.


A glottochronological reconstruction based on analysis of ] and Sinicisms points to the timing of the ''r/z'' split at around 56&nbsp;BCE–48&nbsp;CE. As ] puts it, that may be associated with
Proto-Turkic exhibited ], a feature sometimes also ascribed to ], distinguishing vowel qualities ''e, i, o, u'' vs. ''ë, ï, ö, ü'' besides ''a'', as well as two vowel quantities.


<blockquote>the historical situation that can be seen in the history of the ]' division onto the Northern and Southern : the first separation and withdrawal of the Northern Huns to the west has occurred, as was stated above, in 56&nbsp;BC,... the second split of the (Eastern) Huns into the northern and southern groups happened in 48&nbsp;AD.<ref name=Dybo/></blockquote>
The consonant system had a two-way contrast of ]s (fortis vs. lenis), ''k, p, t'' vs. ''g, b, d'', with verb-initial ''b-'' becoming ''h-'' still in Proto-Turkic. There was also an ], ''č''; at least one ] ''s''; and ]s ''m, n, ń, ŋ, r, ŕ, l, ĺ'' with a full series of ].


Dybo suggests that during that period, the Northern branch steadily migrated from Western ] through Southern ] into the north's ] and then finally into Kazakhstan's ] until the 5th century.<ref name=Dybo>{{cite book |ref=Dybo_2007 |author=Dybo, A. V. |year=2007 |title=Chronology of Turkic languages and linguistic contacts of early Turks |page=770 |place=Moscow |url=http://altaica.narod.ru/LIBRARY/xronol_tu.pdf |language=ru |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050311224856/http://altaica.narod.ru/LIBRARY/xronol_tu.pdf |archive-date=2005-03-11 }}</ref>
The sounds denoted by ''ń, ĺ, ŕ'' refer to ] sounds and have been claimed by Altaicists to be direct inheritances from ]. The last two can be reconstructed with the aid of the ], which show /r, l/ for *ŕ, *ĺ, while ] has *z, *š. Oghuric is thus sometimes referred to as '''Lir-Turkic''' and Common Turkic as '''Shaz-Turkic'''. An alternate analysis reconstructs Proto-Turkic *z, *š, holding that Common Turkic remains closer to the original state of affairs. The glottochronological reconstruction based on analysis of ] and Sinicisms points to the timing of the ''r/z'' split at around 56 BCE–48 CE, associated with ''"the historical situation that can be seen in the history of the Huns' division onto the Northern and Southern: the first separation and withdrawal of the Northern Huns to the west has occurred, as was stated above, in 56 BC,...the second split of the ''(Eastern)'' Huns into the northern and southern groups happened in 48 AD''" from which time the Northern branch steadily migrated from western ] through southern ] into the north's ] and then finally into Kazakhstan's ] until the 5th century.<ref>Dybo A.V., ''"Chronology of Türkic languages and linguistic contacts of early Türks"'', Moskow, 2007, p. 770, (''In Russian'')</ref>


There was no fortis-lenis contrast in word-initial position: the initial stops were always ''*b'', ''*t'', ''*k'', the affricate was always ''*č'' (''*ç'') and the sibilant was always ''*s''. In addition, the nasals and the liquids did not occur in that position either.{{sfn|Róna-Tas|1998|p=71}}
==Grammar==


{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
===Nouns===
! colspan="2"|
!]
!] or<br/>]
!]
!]
|-
! colspan="2" | ]
|*m
|*n
|*ń {{IPAslink|nʲ}}
|*ŋ
|-
! rowspan="2" |] and<br/>]
! {{small|fortis}}
|*p
|*t
|*ç {{IPAslink|t͡ʃ}}
|*k
|-
! {{small|lenis}}
|*b
|*d
|
|*g
|-
! colspan="2" |]
|
|*s
|
|
|-
! rowspan="2"| ]
! {{small|]}}
|
|*l
|(*ĺ {{IPAslink|lʲ}})
|
|-
! {{small|]}}
|
|*r
|(*ŕ {{IPAslink|rʲ}})
|
|-
! colspan="2"| ]
|
|
|*j
|
|}

Like in many modern Turkic languages, the velars /k/, /g/, and possibly /ŋ/ seem to have had back and front allophones ({{IPAblink|k}} and {{IPAblink|q}}, {{IPAblink|g}} and {{IPAblink|ɢ}}, {{IPAblink|ŋ}} and {{IPAblink|ɴ}}) according to their environments, with the velar allophones occurring in words with front vowels, and uvular allophones occurring in words with back vowels. The lenis stops /b/, /d/ and /g/~/ɢ/ may have tended towards fricatives intervocalically.{{sfn|Johanson|1998|p=97}}

=== Vowels ===
Like most of its descendants, Proto-Turkic exhibited ], distinguishing vowel qualities ''a, ï, o, u'' vs. ''ä, e, i, ö, ü'', as well as two vowel quantities. Here, ] represent long vowels. Some scholars (e.g. ]) additionally reconstruct a mid back unrounded ''*ë'' based on cognate sets with Chuvash, Tuvan and Yakut ''ï'' corresponding to ''a'' in all other Turkic languages, although these correspondences can also be explained as deriving from *''a'' which underwent subsequent sound changes in those three languages.{{sfn|Róna-Tas|1998|p=70}}{{sfn|Johanson|1998|pp=90–91}} The phonemicity of the distinction between the two close unrounded vowels, i.e. front ''*i'' and back ''*ï'', is also rejected by some.{{sfn|Johanson|1998|pp=90–91}}

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
! rowspan="2" |
! colspan="2" |front
! colspan="2" |back
|-
! {{small|unrounded}} !! {{small|rounded}}
! {{small|unrounded}} !! {{small|rounded}}
|-
!high
|*i, *ī {{IPAslink|i}}
|*ü, *ǖ {{IPAslink|y}}
|*ï, *ï̄ {{IPAslink|ɯ}}
|*u, *ū {{IPAslink|u}}
|-
!mid
|*e, *ē {{IPAslink|e}}
| rowspan="2" |*ö, *ȫ {{IPAslink|ø}}~{{IPAslink|œ}}
|(*ë, *ë̄ {{IPAslink|ɤ}})
|*o, *ō {{IPAslink|o}}
|-
!low
|*ä, *ǟ {{IPAslink|ɛ}}
|*a, *ā {{IPAslink|a}}
|}

== Morphology ==

=== Nouns ===

====Plurals====
While plurality in modern Turkic languages is relatively straightforward, Proto-Turkic seemingly has multiple plural suffixes, with unclear use cases for each.

One plural suffix preserved in both Oghuric and Common Turkic is ''*-(I)ŕ'', in words such as Turkish "ikiz" or "biz," or Chuvash "(e)pir."

Other possible plural suffixes are ''*-(I)t'', which was commonly seen in Old Turkic, and is related to ] ''*-d'' and ] ''*-tA''; and ''*-(A)n'', preserved in very few words such as Turkish "oğlan."
Common Turkic languages today use their respective descendants of the Proto-Common-Turkic plural suffix ''*-lAr'', whereas Chuvash uses {{lang|cv|-сем}}, which descends from Proto-Turkic ''*sāyïn'' ("every").

It's unknown whether the Proto-Common-Turkic *''-lAr'', *''-(I)t'' and *''-(A)n'' existed in Proto-Turkic and were lost in the Oghuric branch, or were later inventions altogether.

====Possessive suffixes====
Reconstructable ] in Proto-Turkic includes {{gcl|1SG}} ''*-m'', {{gcl|2SG}} ''*-ŋ'', and {{gcl|3SG}} ''*-(s)i'', plurals of the possessors are formed by ''*-z'' in ] languages.

=== Verbs ===
The reconstructable suffixes for the verbs include:
* ]: ''*-Vr''
* ]: ''*-dI''
* Negative suffix: ''*-mA''
* {{gcl|1SG}}: ''*-m'' < ''*-män'' < ''*bän''
* {{gcl|2SG}}: ''*-n'' < ''*sän''
* {{gcl|3SG}}: ''*-∅'' < ''*ï''
* {{gcl|1PL}}: ''*-mïz/*-bïz'' < ''*bïz''
* {{gcl|2PL}}: ''*-sïz'' < ''*sïz''
Proto-Turkic also involves derivation with grammatical voice suffixes, as in cooperative ''*körüš'', middle ''*körün'', passive ''*körül'', and causative ''*körtkür''.

==Vocabulary==


===Pronouns=== ===Pronouns===
{| class="wikitable"
!
!Proto-Turkic
!Turkish
!Azeri
!Turkmen
!Kazakh
!Chuvash
!Karakhanid
!Uzbek
!Uyghur
!Bashkir
!Kyrgyz
!Sakha (Yakut)
|-
! ''I''
| ''*bë'',<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|last=Georg|first=Stefan|date=2004-12-22|title=Review of Starostin, Dybo, Mudrak, Gruntov & Glumov (2003): Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languages|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/dia.21.2.12geo|journal=Diachronica|volume=21|issue=2|pages=445–450|doi=10.1075/dia.21.2.12geo|issn=0176-4225}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Turkic etymology : Query result|url=https://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?root=config&morpho=0&basename=%5Cdata%5Calt%5Cturcet&first=1&off=&text_proto=*be%CC%A3-&method_proto=substring&ic_proto=on&text_meaning=&method_meaning=substring&ic_meaning=on&text_rusmean=&method_rusmean=substring&ic_rusmean=on&text_atu=&method_atu=substring&ic_atu=on&text_krh=&method_krh=substring&ic_krh=on&text_trk=&method_trk=substring&ic_trk=on&text_tat=&method_tat=substring&ic_tat=on&text_chg=&method_chg=substring&ic_chg=on&text_uzb=&method_uzb=substring&ic_uzb=on&text_uig=&method_uig=substring&ic_uig=on&text_sjg=&method_sjg=substring&ic_sjg=on&text_azb=&method_azb=substring&ic_azb=on&text_trm=&method_trm=substring&ic_trm=on&text_hak=&method_hak=substring&ic_hak=on&text_shr=&method_shr=substring&ic_shr=on&text_alt=&method_alt=substring&ic_alt=on&text_khal=&method_khal=substring&ic_khal=on&text_chv=&method_chv=substring&ic_chv=on&text_jak=&method_jak=substring&ic_jak=on&text_dolg=&method_dolg=substring&ic_dolg=on&text_tuv=&method_tuv=substring&ic_tuv=on&text_tof=&method_tof=substring&ic_tof=on&text_krg=&method_krg=substring&ic_krg=on&text_kaz=&method_kaz=substring&ic_kaz=on&text_nogx=&method_nogx=substring&ic_nogx=on&text_bas=&method_bas=substring&ic_bas=on&text_blkx=&method_blkx=substring&ic_blkx=on&text_gagx=&method_gagx=substring&ic_gagx=on&text_krmx=&method_krmx=substring&ic_krmx=on&text_klpx=&method_klpx=substring&ic_klpx=on&text_sal=&method_sal=substring&ic_sal=on&text_qum=&method_qum=substring&ic_qum=on&text_reference=&method_reference=substring&ic_reference=on&text_any=&method_any=substring&|access-date=2021-09-23|website=starling.rinet.ru}}</ref> ''*bän-''<ref>{{Citation|title=Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/ben|date=2021-08-20|url=https://en.wiktionary.org/search/?title=Reconstruction:Proto-Turkic/ben&oldid=63706177|work=Wiktionary|language=en|access-date=2021-09-23}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Proto-Turkic/Pronouns and numbers - Wikibooks, open books for an open world|url=https://en.wikibooks.org/Proto-Turkic/Pronouns_and_numbers|access-date=2021-09-23|website=en.wikibooks.org|language=en}}</ref>|| ''ben'', ''ban-'' ||''mən'' || ''men'' || ''men'', ''ma-'' || ''epĕ'', ''man-'' || ''men'', ''man-'' || ''men''
|''men''|| ''min'' || ''men'' || ''min''
|-
! ''you''
| ''*së'',<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=Turkic etymology : Query result|url=https://starling.rinet.ru/cgi-bin/response.cgi?root=config&morpho=0&basename=%5Cdata%5Calt%5Cturcet&first=1&off=&text_proto=*se%CC%A3-&method_proto=substring&ic_proto=on&text_meaning=&method_meaning=substring&ic_meaning=on&text_rusmean=&method_rusmean=substring&ic_rusmean=on&text_atu=&method_atu=substring&ic_atu=on&text_krh=&method_krh=substring&ic_krh=on&text_trk=&method_trk=substring&ic_trk=on&text_tat=&method_tat=substring&ic_tat=on&text_chg=&method_chg=substring&ic_chg=on&text_uzb=&method_uzb=substring&ic_uzb=on&text_uig=&method_uig=substring&ic_uig=on&text_sjg=&method_sjg=substring&ic_sjg=on&text_azb=&method_azb=substring&ic_azb=on&text_trm=&method_trm=substring&ic_trm=on&text_hak=&method_hak=substring&ic_hak=on&text_shr=&method_shr=substring&ic_shr=on&text_alt=&method_alt=substring&ic_alt=on&text_khal=&method_khal=substring&ic_khal=on&text_chv=&method_chv=substring&ic_chv=on&text_jak=&method_jak=substring&ic_jak=on&text_dolg=&method_dolg=substring&ic_dolg=on&text_tuv=&method_tuv=substring&ic_tuv=on&text_tof=&method_tof=substring&ic_tof=on&text_krg=&method_krg=substring&ic_krg=on&text_kaz=&method_kaz=substring&ic_kaz=on&text_nogx=&method_nogx=substring&ic_nogx=on&text_bas=&method_bas=substring&ic_bas=on&text_blkx=&method_blkx=substring&ic_blkx=on&text_gagx=&method_gagx=substring&ic_gagx=on&text_krmx=&method_krmx=substring&ic_krmx=on&text_klpx=&method_klpx=substring&ic_klpx=on&text_sal=&method_sal=substring&ic_sal=on&text_qum=&method_qum=substring&ic_qum=on&text_reference=&method_reference=substring&ic_reference=on&text_any=&method_any=substring&|access-date=2021-09-23|website=starling.rinet.ru}}</ref> ''*sän-''|| ''sen'', ''san-'' || ''sən'' || ''sen'' || ''sen'', ''sa-'', ''siz'' ||''esĕ'', ''san-'' || ''sen'', ''san-'' || ''sen'', ''siz''
|''sen, siz''|| ''hin'' || ''sen'', ''siz'' || ''en''
|-
! ''he/she/it''
| ''*an-'', ''*o-l'' || ''on-'', ''o'' || ''on-'', ''o'' || ''ol'' || ''on-'', ''o-l'' || ''un-'', ''văl'' || ''an-'', ''ol'' || ''u''
|''u''|| ''ul'' || ''al'' || ''kini'', ''ol''<ref>In Sakha (AKA Yakut), ''kini(ler)'' is used for animate referents whereas ''ol(lor)'' is used for inanimate referents. While the latter is cognate with other third person forms given here, the former descends from Proto-Turkic ''*gëntü'', ''*këntü'' '(him/her)self' and is thus cognate, for example, with Turkish ''kendi''.</ref>
|-
! ''we''
| ''*bïŕ'' || ''biz'' || ''biz'' || ''biz'' || ''biz'' ||''epir, pir-'' || ''biz'' || ''biz''
|''biz''|| ''beð'' || ''biz'' || ''bihigi''
|-
! ''you'' (plural)
| ''*sïŕ'' || ''siz'' || ''siz'' || ''siz'' || ''sender'', ''sizder''|| ''esir, sir-'' || ''siz'' || ''sizlar''
|''senler, siler, sizler''|| ''heð'' || ''siler'', ''sizder'' || ''ehigi''
|-
! ''they''
| ''*o-lar''<ref>This pronoun are constructed by adding a plural suffix to ''*o-l'' "he/she/it". However, an Oghur language ] uses a completely different plural suffix that lacks ], ''-sem''. According to Róna-Tas (1998), ''-sem'' is a late replacement to ''*-lAr''.</ref> || ''on-lar'' || ''onlar'' || ''olar'' || ''olar'' || ''vĕsem'', ''vĕsen-'' || ''olar'' || ''ular''
|''ular''|| ''ular'' || ''alar'' || ''kiniler'', ''ollor''
|}


===Numbers===
===Numbers <ref>Andras Rona-Tas, 'The Reconstruction of Proto-Turkic and the Genetic Question', in L. Johanson, ''The Turkic Languages'', Routledge Language Family Descriptions, Routledge (1998), ISBN 0-415-08200-5, pp.&nbsp;67–80.</ref>===
{| class="wikitable" {| class="wikitable"
! rowspan="2" |
! rowspan="2" |Proto-Turkic
! colspan="2" |Oghur Turkic
! colspan="10" |Common Turkic
|- |-
!Volga Bulgar
| 1 || ''*bir''
!Chuvash
!Karakhanid
!Turkish
!Azeri
!Turkmen
!Kazakh
!Uzbek
!Uyghur
!Bashkir
!Kyrgyz
!Sakha (Yakut)
|- |-
! 1
| 2 || ''*ėki''
| ''*bï̄r''
|''بىر (bīr)''|| ''pĕr'' || ''bīr'' || ''bir'' || ''bir'' || ''bir'' || ''bir'' || ''bir''
|''bir''|| ''ber'' || ''bir'' || ''biir''
|- |-
! 2
| 3 || ''*üč''
| ''*ëkï''
|''اَكِ (eki)''|| ''ikĕ'' || ''ikkī'' || ''iki'' || ''iki'' || ''iki'' || ''eki'' || ''ikki''
|''ikki''|| ''ike'' || ''eki'' || ''ikki''
|- |-
! 3
| 4 || ''*tȫrt''
| ''*üç''
|''وج (v<sup>e</sup>č)''|| ''viśĕ'' || ''üč'' || ''üç'' || ''üç'' || ''üç'' || ''üş'' || ''uch''
|''üç''|| ''ös'' || ''üč'' || ''üs''
|- |-
! 4
| 5 || ''*bēš''
| ''*tȫrt''
|''تُوات (tüvet)''|| ''tăvată'' || ''tȫrt'' || ''dört'' || ''dörd'' || ''dört'' || ''tört'' || ''to'rt''
|''tört''|| ''dürt'' || ''tört'' || ''tüört''
|- |-
! 5
| 6 || ''*altï''
| ''*bë̄ĺ(k)''
|''بيال (byel)''|| ''pilĕk'' || ''bḗš'' || ''beş'' || ''beş'' || ''bäş'' || ''bes'' || ''besh''
|''beş''|| ''biş'' || ''beş'' || ''bies''
|- |-
! 6
| 7 || ''*yeti''
| ''*altı''
|''اَلطِ (altï)''|| ''ultă'' || ''altï̄'' || ''altı'' || ''altı'' || ''alty'' || ''altı'' || ''olti''
|''alte''|| ''altı'' || ''altı'' || ''alta''
|- |-
! 7
| 8 || ''*sekir''
| ''*jëtï''
|''جىَاتِ (čyeti)''|| ''śičĕ'' || ''yétī'' || ''yedi'' || ''yeddi'' || ''ýedi'' || ''jeti'' || ''yetti''
|''yetti''|| ''yete'' || ''jeti'' || ''sette''
|- |-
! 8
| 9 || ''*tokur''
| ''*säkïŕ''
|''ڛَكِڔ (sekir)''|| ''sakăr'' || ''sekiz'' || ''sekiz'' || ''səkkiz'' || ''sekiz'' || ''segiz'' || ''sakkiz''
|''sekkiz''|| ''higeð'' || ''segiz'' || ''аğıs''
|- |-
! 9
| 10 || ''*on''
| ''*tokuŕ''
|''طُخِڔ (tuxïr)''|| ''tăhăr'' || ''tokūz'' || ''dokuz'' || ''doqquz'' || ''dokuz'' || ''toğız'' || ''to'qqiz''
|''toqquz''|| ''tuğıð'' || ''toguz'' || ''toğus''
|- |-
! 10
| 20 || ''*yėgirmi''
| ''*ōn''
|''وان (van)''|| ''vună'' || ''ōn'' || ''on'' || ''on'' || ''on'' || ''on'' || ''o'n''
|''on''|| ''un'' || ''on'' || ''uon''
|- |-
! 20
| 30 || ''*otuz''
| ''*jëgïrmï''
|''جِيِرم (čiyir<sup>i</sup>m)''|| ''śirĕm'' || ''yegirmī'' || ''yirmi'' || ''iyirmi'' || ''ýigrimi'' || ''jıyırma'' || ''yigirma''
|''yigrime''|| ''yegerme'' || ''jıyırma'' || ''süürbe''
|- |-
! 30
| 40 || ''*kïrk''
| ''*otuŕ''
|''وطر (v<sup>u</sup>t<sup>u</sup>r)''|| ''vătăr'' || ''ottuz'' || ''otuz'' || ''otuz'' || ''otuz'' || ''otız'' || ''o'ttiz''
|''ottuz''|| ''utıð'' || ''otuz'' || ''otut''
|- |-
! 40
| 50 || ''*elig''
| ''*kırk''
|''حرح (x<sup>ï</sup>r<sup>ï</sup>x)''|| ''hĕrĕh'' || ''kïrk'' || ''kırk'' || ''qırx'' || ''kyrk'' || ''qırıq'' || ''qirq''
|''qiriq''|| ''qırq'' || ''kırk'' || -
|- |-
! 50
| 60 || ''*altmïš''
| ''*ällïg''
|''اَلُّ (ellü)''|| ''ală'' || ''ellig'' || ''elli'' || ''əlli'' || ''elli'' || ''eliw'' || ''ellik''
|''ellik''|| ''ille'' || ''elüü'' || -
|- |-
! 60
| 70 || ''*yetmïš''
| ''*ältmıĺ''
| -|| ''utmăl'' || ''altmïš'' || ''altmış'' || ''altmış'' || ''altmyş'' || ''alpıs'' || ''oltmish''
|''atmiş''|| ''altmış'' || ''altımış'' || -
|- |-
! 70
| 80 || ''*sekizon''
| ''*jëtmïĺ''
| -|| ''śitmĕl'' || ''yetmiš'' || ''yetmiş'' || ''yetmiş'' || ''ýetmiş'' || ''jetpis'' || ''yetmish''
|''etmiş''|| ''yetmeş'' || ''jetimiş'' || -
|- |-
! 80
| 90 || ''*tokuzon''
| ''*säkïŕ ōn''
| سكر وان (sekir van)|| ''sakăr vun'' || ''seksȫn'' || ''seksen'' || ''səksən'' || ''segsen'' || ''seksen'' || ''sakson''
|''seksen''|| ''hikhän'' || ''seksen'' || ''ağıs uon''
|- |-
! 90
| 100 || ''*jür'', ''*yüz''
| ''*tokuŕ ōn''
| طوخر وان (toxïr van)|| ''tăhăr vun'' || ''toksōn'' || ''doksan'' || ''doxsan'' || ''dogsan'' || ''toqsan'' || ''to'qson''
|''toqsan''|| ''tuqhan'' || ''tokson'' || ''toğus uon''
|-
! 100
| ''*jǖŕ''
|''جُور (čǖr)''|| ''śĕr'' || ''yǖz'' || ''yüz'' || ''yüz'' || ''ýüz'' || ''jüz'' || ''yuz''
|''yüz''|| ''yöð'' || ''jüz'' || ''süüs''
|-
! 1000
| ''*bıŋ''
| -|| ''pin'' || ''miŋ'' || ''bin'' || ''min'' || ''müň'' || ''mıñ'' || ''ming''
|''miñ''|| ''meñ'' || ''miñ'' || ''muñ''
|} |}


==Notes== ==References==
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==References== ==Sources==

*{{cite journal |author1-last=Antonov |author1-first=Anton |author2-last=Jacques |author2-first=Guillaume |title=Turkic ''kümüš'' 'silver' and the lambdaism vs. sigmatism debate |journal=Turkic Languages |volume=15 |issue=2 |pages=151–170 |year=2012 |url=https://www.academia.edu/1495118 }}
*{{cite book |author-first=Gyula |author-last=Décsy |title=The Turkic Protolanguage: A computational reconstruction |year=1998 }}
**{{cite journal |author-first=Edward J. |author-last=Vajda |year=2000 |title=Review of Décsy (1998) |journal=] |volume=76 |issue=2 |pages=473–474 |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/451579/pdf }}
*{{cite book |author-first=Gerard |author-last=Clauson |year=1972 |author-link=Gerard Clauson |title=Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish |url=https://archive.org/details/etymologicaldict0000clau |url-access=registration |location=Oxford |publisher=Clarendon Press |isbn=978-0-19-864112-4 }}
*{{cite book |author-first=Vilhelm |author-last=Grønbech |year=1997 |author-link=Vilhelm Grønbech |title=Preliminary Studies in Turkic Historical Phonology (Uralic & Altaic) |location=Curzon |publisher=Routledge |isbn=0-7007-0935-5 }}
*{{cite book |author-first=Lars |author-last=Johanson |year=1998 |chapter=History of Turkic |title=The Turkic Languages |editor1-first=Lars |editor1-last=Johanson |editor2-first=Éva |editor2-last=Csató |place=London |publisher=Taylor & Francis |pages=81–125 |isbn=0-415-08200-5 }}
*{{cite book |author-first=András |author-last=Róna-Tas |year=1998 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z7i5CAAAQBAJ |contribution=The reconstruction of Proto-Turkic and the genetic question |title=The Turkic Languages |editor1-first=Lars |editor1-last=Johanson |editor2-first=Éva |editor2-last=Csató |place=London |publisher=Taylor & Francis |pages=67–80 |isbn=0-415-08200-5 }}

==Further reading==
* ] (2014). "". In: ''Tatarica: Language'', 2, p. 7-17.
* {{cite journal |last1= |first1= |title=Wheels and Carts of the Ancient Turks in a Linguistic View |journal=Karadeniz Araştırmaları |date= |volume=XVII |issue=65 |pages=167–176 |doi= |issn= |oclc= |bibcode=}}


==External links==
*Gyula Décsy, ''The Turkic Protolanguage: A Computational Reconstruction'' (1998).
{{wikibooks|Proto-Turkic}}
**Edward J. Vajda, review of Décsy (1998), ] (2000), 473-474.
*], ''Etymological dictionary of pre-thirteenth-century Turkish'', Oxford, Clarendon Press (1972).
*Vilhel Gronbech, ''Preliminary Studies in Turkic Historical Phonology (Uralic & Altaic)'', RoutledgeCurzon (1997), ISBN 0-7007-0935-5.
*Andras Rona-Tas, 'The Reconstruction of Proto-Turkic and the Genetic Question', in L. Johanson, ''The Turkic Languages'', Routledge Language Family Descriptions, Routledge (1998), ISBN 0-415-08200-5, pp.&nbsp;67–80.


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Reconstructed ancestor of Turkic languages

Proto-Turkic
Reconstruction ofTurkic languages
RegionProbably the East and Central Asia, possibly including regions of western Siberia
Erac. 3000 – c. 500 BCE
Lower-order reconstructions

Proto-Turkic is the linguistic reconstruction of the common ancestor of the Turkic languages that was spoken by the Proto-Turks before their divergence into the various Turkic peoples. Proto-Turkic separated into Oghur (western) and Common Turkic (eastern) branches. Candidates for the proto-Turkic homeland range from western Central Asia to Manchuria, with most scholars agreeing that it lay in the eastern part of the Central Asian steppe, while one author has postulated that Proto-Turkic originated 2,500 years ago in East Asia.

The oldest records of a Turkic language, the Old Turkic Orkhon inscriptions of the 7th century Göktürk khaganate, already shows characteristics of Eastern Common Turkic. For a long time, the reconstruction of Proto-Turkic relied on comparisons of Old Turkic with early sources of the Western Common Turkic branches, such as Oghuz and Kypchak, as well as the Western Oghur proper (Bulgar, Chuvash, Khazar). Because early attestation of these non-easternmost languages is much more sparse, reconstruction of Proto-Turkic still rests fundamentally on the easternmost Old Turkic of the Göktürks, however it now also includes a more comprehensive analysis of all written and spoken forms of the language.

The Proto-Turkic language shows evidence of influence from several neighboring language groups, including Eastern Iranian, Tocharian, and Old Chinese.

Phonology

Consonants

The consonant system had a two-way contrast of stop consonants (fortis vs. lenis), k, p, t vs. g, b, d. There was also an affricate consonant, ç; at least one sibilant s and sonorants m, n, ń, ŋ, r, l with a full series of nasal consonants. Some scholars additionally reconstruct the palatalized sounds ĺ and ŕ for the correspondence sets Oghuric /l/ ~ Common Turkic *š and Oghuric /r/ ~ Common Turkic *z. Most scholars, however, assume that these are the regular reflexes of Proto-Turkic *l and *r. Oghuric is thus sometimes referred to as Lir-Turkic and Common Turkic as Shaz-Turkic.

A glottochronological reconstruction based on analysis of isoglosses and Sinicisms points to the timing of the r/z split at around 56 BCE–48 CE. As Anna Dybo puts it, that may be associated with

the historical situation that can be seen in the history of the Huns' division onto the Northern and Southern : the first separation and withdrawal of the Northern Huns to the west has occurred, as was stated above, in 56 BC,... the second split of the (Eastern) Huns into the northern and southern groups happened in 48 AD.

Dybo suggests that during that period, the Northern branch steadily migrated from Western Mongolia through Southern Xinjiang into the north's Dzungaria and then finally into Kazakhstan's Zhetysu until the 5th century.

There was no fortis-lenis contrast in word-initial position: the initial stops were always *b, *t, *k, the affricate was always *č (*ç) and the sibilant was always *s. In addition, the nasals and the liquids did not occur in that position either.

Bilabial Dental or
alveolar 		Palatal Velar
Nasal *m *n *ń /nʲ/ *ŋ
Plosive and
affricate 		fortis *p *t *ç /t͡ʃ/ *k
lenis *b *d *g
Sibilant *s
Liquid lateral *l (*ĺ /lʲ/)
rhotic *r (*ŕ /rʲ/)
Semivowel *j

Like in many modern Turkic languages, the velars /k/, /g/, and possibly /ŋ/ seem to have had back and front allophones ([k] and [q], [g] and [ɢ], [ŋ] and [ɴ]) according to their environments, with the velar allophones occurring in words with front vowels, and uvular allophones occurring in words with back vowels. The lenis stops /b/, /d/ and /g/~/ɢ/ may have tended towards fricatives intervocalically.

Vowels

Like most of its descendants, Proto-Turkic exhibited vowel harmony, distinguishing vowel qualities a, ï, o, u vs. ä, e, i, ö, ü, as well as two vowel quantities. Here, macrons represent long vowels. Some scholars (e.g. Gerhard Doerfer) additionally reconstruct a mid back unrounded *ë based on cognate sets with Chuvash, Tuvan and Yakut ï corresponding to a in all other Turkic languages, although these correspondences can also be explained as deriving from *a which underwent subsequent sound changes in those three languages. The phonemicity of the distinction between the two close unrounded vowels, i.e. front *i and back *ï, is also rejected by some.

front back
unrounded rounded unrounded rounded
high *i, *ī /i/ *ü, *ǖ /y/ *ï, *ï̄ /ɯ/ *u, *ū /u/
mid *e, *ē /e/ *ö, *ȫ /ø/~/œ/ (*ë, *ë̄ /ɤ/) *o, *ō /o/
low *ä, *ǟ /ɛ/ *a, *ā /a/

Morphology

Nouns

Plurals

While plurality in modern Turkic languages is relatively straightforward, Proto-Turkic seemingly has multiple plural suffixes, with unclear use cases for each.

One plural suffix preserved in both Oghuric and Common Turkic is *-(I)ŕ, in words such as Turkish "ikiz" or "biz," or Chuvash "(e)pir."

Other possible plural suffixes are *-(I)t, which was commonly seen in Old Turkic, and is related to Proto-Mongolic *-d and Proto-Tungusic *-tA; and *-(A)n, preserved in very few words such as Turkish "oğlan."

Common Turkic languages today use their respective descendants of the Proto-Common-Turkic plural suffix *-lAr, whereas Chuvash uses -сем, which descends from Proto-Turkic *sāyïn ("every").

It's unknown whether the Proto-Common-Turkic *-lAr, *-(I)t and *-(A)n existed in Proto-Turkic and were lost in the Oghuric branch, or were later inventions altogether.

Possessive suffixes

Reconstructable possessive suffixes in Proto-Turkic includes 1SG *-m, 2SG *-ŋ, and 3SG *-(s)i, plurals of the possessors are formed by *-z in Common Turkic languages.

Verbs

The reconstructable suffixes for the verbs include:

  • Aorist: *-Vr
  • Past: *-dI
  • Negative suffix: *-mA
  • 1SG: *-m < *-män < *bän
  • 2SG: *-n < *sän
  • 3SG: *-∅ < *ï
  • 1PL: *-mïz/*-bïz < *bïz
  • 2PL: *-sïz < *sïz

Proto-Turkic also involves derivation with grammatical voice suffixes, as in cooperative *körüš, middle *körün, passive *körül, and causative *körtkür.

Vocabulary

Pronouns

Proto-Turkic Turkish Azeri Turkmen Kazakh Chuvash Karakhanid Uzbek Uyghur Bashkir Kyrgyz Sakha (Yakut)
I *bë, *bän- ben, ban- mən men men, ma- epĕ, man- men, man- men men min men min
you *së, *sän- sen, san- sən sen sen, sa-, siz esĕ, san- sen, san- sen, siz sen, siz hin sen, siz en
he/she/it *an-, *o-l on-, o on-, o ol on-, o-l un-, văl an-, ol u u ul al kini, ol
we *bïŕ biz biz biz biz epir, pir- biz biz biz beð biz bihigi
you (plural) *sïŕ siz siz siz sender, sizder esir, sir- siz sizlar senler, siler, sizler heð siler, sizder ehigi
they *o-lar on-lar onlar olar olar vĕsem, vĕsen- olar ular ular ular alar kiniler, ollor

Numbers

Proto-Turkic Oghur Turkic Common Turkic
Volga Bulgar Chuvash Karakhanid Turkish Azeri Turkmen Kazakh Uzbek Uyghur Bashkir Kyrgyz Sakha (Yakut)
1 *bï̄r بىر (bīr) pĕr bīr bir bir bir bir bir bir ber bir biir
2 *ëkï اَكِ (eki) ikĕ ikkī iki iki iki eki ikki ikki ike eki ikki
3 *üç وج (vč) viśĕ üč üç üç üç üş uch üç ös üč üs
4 *tȫrt تُوات (tüvet) tăvată tȫrt dört dörd dört tört to'rt tört dürt tört tüört
5 *bë̄ĺ(k) بيال (byel) pilĕk bḗš beş beş bäş bes besh beş biş beş bies
6 *altı اَلطِ (altï) ultă altï̄ altı altı alty altı olti alte altı altı alta
7 *jëtï جىَاتِ (čyeti) śičĕ yétī yedi yeddi ýedi jeti yetti yetti yete jeti sette
8 *säkïŕ ڛَكِڔ (sekir) sakăr sekiz sekiz səkkiz sekiz segiz sakkiz sekkiz higeð segiz аğıs
9 *tokuŕ طُخِڔ (tuxïr) tăhăr tokūz dokuz doqquz dokuz toğız to'qqiz toqquz tuğıð toguz toğus
10 *ōn وان (van) vună ōn on on on on o'n on un on uon
20 *jëgïrmï جِيِرم (čiyirm) śirĕm yegirmī yirmi iyirmi ýigrimi jıyırma yigirma yigrime yegerme jıyırma süürbe
30 *otuŕ وطر (vtr) vătăr ottuz otuz otuz otuz otız o'ttiz ottuz utıð otuz otut
40 *kırk حرح (xrx) hĕrĕh kïrk kırk qırx kyrk qırıq qirq qiriq qırq kırk -
50 *ällïg اَلُّ (ellü) ală ellig elli əlli elli eliw ellik ellik ille elüü -
60 *ältmıĺ - utmăl altmïš altmış altmış altmyş alpıs oltmish atmiş altmış altımış -
70 *jëtmïĺ - śitmĕl yetmiš yetmiş yetmiş ýetmiş jetpis yetmish etmiş yetmeş jetimiş -
80 *säkïŕ ōn سكر وان (sekir van) sakăr vun seksȫn seksen səksən segsen seksen sakson seksen hikhän seksen ağıs uon
90 *tokuŕ ōn طوخر وان (toxïr van) tăhăr vun toksōn doksan doxsan dogsan toqsan to'qson toqsan tuqhan tokson toğus uon
100 *jǖŕ جُور (čǖr) śĕr yǖz yüz yüz ýüz jüz yuz yüz yöð jüz süüs
1000 *bıŋ - pin miŋ bin min müň mıñ ming miñ meñ miñ muñ

References

  1. ^ Robbeets & Savelyev 2017, p. 127.
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  20. In Sakha (AKA Yakut), kini(ler) is used for animate referents whereas ol(lor) is used for inanimate referents. While the latter is cognate with other third person forms given here, the former descends from Proto-Turkic *gëntü, *këntü '(him/her)self' and is thus cognate, for example, with Turkish kendi.
  21. This pronoun are constructed by adding a plural suffix to *o-l "he/she/it". However, an Oghur language Chuvash uses a completely different plural suffix that lacks vowel harmony, -sem. According to Róna-Tas (1998), -sem is a late replacement to *-lAr.

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