East Oğuz language group

The East Oghuz language group is a branch of the Southwestern Turkic languages. These languages are spoken primarily in Turkmenistan and northeastern Iran. The Oghuz themselves were a confederation of Turkic peoples originating from Central Asia and Mongolia.12

The Turkic languages, including the Oghuz group, are part of the larger Altaic language family, though this classification is debated among linguists. Historically, the earliest records of Turkic languages date back to the 8th century CE in Mongolia and southern Russia. Today, Turkic languages are spoken across a vast area of Eastern Europe and Central and North Asia.31