Turkic languages

The Turkic languages are a family of languages spoken in Europe and Asia.^[1]

Geneticists who have traced the DNA of speakers of Turkic languages have not been able to definitively assert where the language family's original speakers lived.^[1]

Linguists, after analyzing the shared vocabulary of Turkic languages, posit that proto-Turkic was first spoken in a forest region south of the Siberian steppes.^[2]

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Bayazit Yunusbayev; Mait Metspalu; Ene Metspalu; Albert Valeev; Sergei Litvinov; Ruslan Valiev; Vita Akhmetova; Elena Balanovska; Oleg Balanovsky (2015-04-21). "The Genetic Legacy of the Expansion of Turkic-Speaking Nomads across Eurasia". PLOS Genetics. 11 (4). doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1005068. ISSN 1553-7390. PMC 4405460. PMID 25898006. The origin and early dispersal history of the Turkic peoples is disputed, with candidates for their ancient homeland ranging from the Transcaspian steppe to Manchuria in Northeast Asia.
↑ Junzo Uchiyama; J. Christopher Gillam; Alexander Savelyev; Chao Ning (2020). "Populations dynamics in Northern Eurasian forests: a long-term perspective from Northeast Asia". Evolutionary Human Sciences. 2. doi:10.1017/ehs.2020.11. ISSN 2513-843X. Retrieved 2026-04-21.

[PLOSGenetics2015-04-21-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Bayazit Yunusbayev; Mait Metspalu; Ene Metspalu; Albert Valeev; Sergei Litvinov; Ruslan Valiev; Vita Akhmetova; Elena Balanovska; Oleg Balanovsky (2015-04-21). "The Genetic Legacy of the Expansion of Turkic-Speaking Nomads across Eurasia". PLOS Genetics. 11 (4). doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1005068. ISSN 1553-7390. PMC 4405460. PMID 25898006. The origin and early dispersal history of the Turkic peoples is disputed, with candidates for their ancient homeland ranging from the Transcaspian steppe to Manchuria in Northeast Asia.

[PopulationsDynamics2020-2] Junzo Uchiyama; J. Christopher Gillam; Alexander Savelyev; Chao Ning (2020). "Populations dynamics in Northern Eurasian forests: a long-term perspective from Northeast Asia". Evolutionary Human Sciences. 2. doi:10.1017/ehs.2020.11. ISSN 2513-843X. Retrieved 2026-04-21.

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