Turkic-speaking
- adjective
- By "central Asia," I mean to denote basically the same region but with a focus on Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan, all of which are dominantly Turkic-speaking.
- Turkic-speaking people
Examples
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The Gagauz are a predominantly rural population of Orthodox Christian Turkic-speaking peoples.
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In Moldova and Eastern Europe, it is widely acknowledged that Gagauz migrated from Bulgaria in the 19th century, and as a result, it is popularly believed that they are Turkic-speaking Bulgarians.
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Azerbaijani national-identity politics differs considerably from identity politics in the other Central Asian Turkic-speaking countries.
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How a Turkic-speaking population found itself here and why they are Orthodox, and not Muslim as most Turkic speakers, are much-contested questions.
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Although the linguistic tie to Turkey warmed relations with that country initially, it has proved to be no more of a bond than with any other Turkic-speaking neighbor.
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Ottoman Minister of War Enver Pasha had big hopes of spreading his rule to those Turkic speaking regions of Russia and Central Asia after the war.
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A Turkic-speaking people, like the Uighurs and Tuvans, follow shamanic practices and regularly visit a small "holy tree" within Por-Bajin's enclosure.
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Also like the Kyrgyz, the Kazakhs are a historically Muslim and Turkic-speaking mix of indigenous Turkic tribes and nomadic Mongols.
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One example of this comes from the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China's far-flung northwest, home to many ethnic minority groups, including the people known as the Uyghurs, a Turkic-speaking, now predominantly Muslim, population living in East and Central Asia.
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The Gagauz people are a Turkic-speaking group living mostly in southern Moldova.
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Morphology
Etymology
Turkic-speaking joins Turkic, from the name 'Turks', people of Central Asia whose languages include Turkish and Kazakh, and speaking, which means 'using a language'. So, Turkic-speaking describes someone who can speak a Turkic language.