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Southwestern Turkic languages

Also known as: Oğuz Turkic languages
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The Southwestern Turkic languages, also known as Oghuz languages, are a branch of the Turkic language family. These languages are spoken across a wide area, including Turkey, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and parts of Iran and Afghanistan.12

The Oghuz confederation of Turkic peoples originated in Central Asia and Mongolia. The Seljuqs, a prominent Oghuz group, established a vast empire by the 11th century.1

The Turkic languages, including Oghuz, share similarities in their sound systems, word formation, and sentence structure. The earliest written records of Turkic languages date back to the 8th century in Mongolia.2

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