(1) The word Tajik means crown and used to distinguish the Persian speaking from the Turkic speaking communities.(2) It contains many Turkic , Persian, and Arabic elements.(3) It is a Turkic language belonging to the Altaic-Turkic language group.(4) Thus Turkic languages have evolved differently in Eastern Turkistan.(5) Most Kyrgyz people speak the Kyrgyz language, which is a distinct Turkic language with Mongol influences.(6) The Kyrgyz language belongs to the Southern Turkic group of languages.(7) Most of the people continued to speak in various Turkic or Iranian dialects.(8) Karthli is distinct from Indo-European, Turkic , and Semitic languages.(9) The Karakalpak language is part of the Turkic language family.(10) Still essentially Turkic , their language and way of life are now under threat.(11) The closest linguistic relatives of the Hungarians are the Finns and the Estonians, but the Hungarians are also distantly related to the Turkic peoples.(12) Kazakh, the official state language of Kazakhstan, is a Turkic language spoken by only 40 percent of the people.(13) Central Asia largely speaks Turkic languages.(14) Kyrgyz is a Turkic language, most closely related to Kazak.(15) Although it has borrowed many words from Arabic, Turkic , Persian, and Russian, Georgian has remained distinctive.(16) Indeed, most of the Turkic languages had a significant percentage of Arabic and Persian loan elements.
