Turkic scripts

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Turkic scripts are a group of historical and modern writing systems developed and used by Turkic-speaking peoples across Eurasia, encompassing alphabets such as Old Turkic runiform, Uyghur, and various adaptations of Arabic, Cyrillic, and Latin scripts.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Turkic runic scripts 1
Turkic scripts canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (73)

Predicate Object
instanceOf script family
writing system group
geographicDistribution Anatolia
Caucasus
Central Asia
Mongolia
Siberia
Volga-Ural region
Xinjiang
hasWritingSystem Arabic script adaptations for Turkic
Armenian script for Ottoman Turkish
Azeri Latin alphabet
Bashkir Cyrillic alphabet
Chagatai alphabet
linked to: Chagatai script

Crimean Tatar Latin alphabet
Cyrillic script adaptations for Turkic
Gagauz Latin alphabet
Greek script for Turkish (Karamanlidika)
linked to: Cappadocian Greek

Karamanli Turkish script
Kazakh Cyrillic alphabet
Kazakh Latin alphabet
Kyrgyz Cyrillic alphabet
Köktürk runiform script
Latin script adaptations for Turkic
Latin-based common Turkic alphabet proposals
Modern Turkish Latin alphabet
linked to: Turkish alphabet

Old Anatolian Turkish script
Old Turkic script
Old Uyghur alphabet
Orkhon script
linked to: Old Turkic script

Ottoman Turkish alphabet
Perso-Arabic script for Turkic
Runiform Turkic script
linked to: Old Turkic script

Tatar Cyrillic alphabet
Turkmen Latin alphabet
linked to: Turkmen alphabet

Uyghur script
Uzbek Latin alphabet
linked to: Uzbek Latin script

Yakut Cyrillic alphabet
Yenisei script
linked to: Old Turkic script
historicalPeriod early medieval period
medieval period
modern period
relatedTo Turkic languages
Turkic peoples
scriptFamilyIncludes Arabic script
Cyrillic script
Latin script
linked to: Latin alphabet

Old Turkic runiform script
linked to: Old Turkic script
usedBy Turkic peoples
usedFor Turkic languages
usedForLanguage Azerbaijani
Bashkir
Chagatai language
linked to: Chagatai Turkic

Chuvash
Crimean Tatar
Gagauz
Kazakh
linked to: Kazakh language

Kyrgyz
Old Turkic language
Ottoman Turkish
Tatar
Turkish
Turkmen
linked to: Turkmen language

Uyghur
linked to: Uyghur language

Uzbek
Yakut
writingDirection left-to-right
right-to-left
writingSystemType abjad
abjad-based script
alphabet
alphabetic script
runiform script

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Old Turkic script scriptFamily Turkic scripts
Orkhon inscriptions scriptFamily Turkic runic scripts
linked to: Turkic scripts