Old Kipchak language

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The Kipchak language was spoken by the Kipchak people, a Turkic tribal confederation that inhabited a vast territory in the Eurasian Steppe. This language is primarily known through the Codex Cumanicus, a late 13th-century dictionary containing Kipchak, Latin, and Persian words. The Kipchak language is considered a member of the Turkic language family. The Kipchak confederation was eventually destroyed by the Mongol invasions and its people and lands were incorporated into the Golden Horde.12

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Khwārezmian Turkic, Volga Bolgarian, Old Kipchak, Old Ottoman, and Early Chagatai. Khwārezmian, used in the 13th–14th centuries in the empire of the Golden Horde, is based on the old language, but mixed with Oghuz and Kipchak elements. Volga Bolgarian is preserved in inscriptions on tombstones (13th–14th centuries). The main…
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Khwārezmian Turkic, Volga Bolgarian, Old Kipchak, Old Ottoman, and Early Chagatai. Khwārezmian, used in the 13th–14th centuries in the empire of the Golden Horde, is based on the old language, but mixed with Oghuz and Kipchak elements. Volga Bolgarian is preserved in inscriptions on tombstones (13th–14th centuries). The main…
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