Mamluk-Kipchak language

Short description: Medieval Turkic language of the Mamluk Sultinate

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Mamluk-Kipchak

Mameluk-Kipchak[1]

A 1391 manuscript of kitâb Gülistan biʼt-türkî, the oldest known Turkic translation of Saadi’s Gulistan, rendered in Mamluk-Kipchak by Sayf-i Sarâyî.

Native to| Mamluk Sultanate
Region| Egypt and Syria
Ethnicity| Mamluks
Extinct| after 1516[2]

Language family

Turkic

* Common Turkic
* Kipchak
* Kipchak-Cuman
* Mamluk-Kipchak

Writing system

| Ottoman Turkish
Language codes
ISO 639-3| None (`mis`)
Glottolog| None

Mamluk-Kipchak was a Kipchak language that was spoken in Egypt and Syria during the Mamluk Sultanate period.

## Contents

* 1 Classification
* 2 History
* 3 Literature
* 4 References

## Classification

The Mamluk-Kipchak language belongs to the Cuman-Kipchak group of Kipchak languages. Other Cuman-Kipchak languages include Kumyk, Karachai-Balkar, Crimean Tatar.[3]

## History

Since most of the Mamluk rulers were monolingual Turkic speakers, several dictionaries were compiled to enable communication between Arabic speaking population of the empire and its rulers. The language was also used as literary language and several Arabic and Persian works have been translated to Kipchak by Mamluks.[4] It was written in Arabic script.

Mamluk-Kipchak lost its ground as the dominant Turkic language to Oghuz Turkic among the ruling Burji dynasty.[5]

## Literature

* Kitab al-'idrak li-lisan al-'atrak (كتاب الإدراك للسان الأتراك) 'Aspects of the Turkic language' archive (in Arabic), Ibn Hayyan.
* «At-Tufhat-uz-zakiya fil-lugat-it-Turkiyya» «Valuable gift to Turkish language»

## References

1. ↑ "The Kuman Language". LINGUIST List. http://linguistlist.org/forms/langs/LLDescription.cfm?code=qwm.
2. ↑ Gulnar Nadirova Logo. "STATUS OF THE KYPCHAK LANGUAGE IN MAMLUK EGYPT: LANGUAGE - BARRIER OR LANGUAGE - CONTACT?". https://www.researchgate.net/publication/344715953. "Even towards the end of the Mamluk period, during the reign of the last sultan al-Ghawri (1501-1516), the Mamluk, called Asanbay min Sudun, copied the religious Hanbali tract of Abu al-Layth in Kypchak language for the royal library."
3. ↑ Баскаков Н. А. Историко-типологическая фонология тюркских языков / Отв. ред. Э. Р. Тенишев. — М.: Наука, 1988.
4. ↑ Eckmann, János (1963). "The Mamluk-Kipchak Literature". Central Asiatic Journal 8 (4): 304–319.
5. ↑ Turan, Fikret; Boeschoten, Hendrik; Stein, Heidi (2007). "The Mamluks and Their Acceptance of Oghuz Turkish as Literary Language: Political Maneuver or Cultural Aspiration?" (in English). Turcologica (Harrassowitz). https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/the-mamluks-and-their-acceptance-of-oghuz-turkish-as-literary-language-political-maneuver-or-cultural-aspiration(969424ff-545b-4a06-be1b-bea73f8aa50c).html.

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Turkic languages

Proto-language|

* Proto-Turkic

Common Turkic|

| Arghu|

* Khalaj

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Karluk|

* Äynu1
* Ili Turki
* Uyghur
* Uzbek
* Extinct
* Middle Turkic
* Khorezmian
* Chagatai

Kipchak|

| Ponto-Caspian|

* Crimean Tatar
* Karachay-Balkar
* Karaim
* Krymchak
* Kumyk
* Urum
* Extinct
* Kipchak
* Cuman

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Aralo-Caspian|

* Siberian Tatar
* Karakalpak
* Kazakh
* Kyrgyz
* Nogai
* Extinct
* Fergana Kipchak

Uralo-Caspian|

* Bashkir
* Tatar
* Extinct
* Old Tatar

Oghuz|

* Azerbaijani
* Gagauz
* Khorasani Turkic
* Qashqai
* Rumelian Turkish
* Salar
* Turkish
* Turkmen
* Extinct
* Pecheneg2
* Old Anatolian Turkish
* Ottoman Turkish

Siberian|

* Altai
* Chulym
* Dolgan
* Khakas
* Shor
* Tofa
* Tuvan
* Yakut
* Western Yugur2
* Extinct
* Orkhon Turkic
* Old Turkic
* Old Uyghur
* Fuyu Girgis
* Dukhan

Oghur|

* Chuvash
* Extinct
* Khazar2
* Bulgar

* 1 Mixed language.
* 2 Classification disputed.

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