Old Turkic

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Old Turkic
East Old Turkic, Old Siberian Turkic
Talas Inscription 1
Native to	Second Turkic Khaganate, Uyghur Khaganate
Region	East Asia, Central Asia and parts of Eastern Europe
Era	8th–13th centuries
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Siberian Turkic South Siberian Old Turkic
Dialects	Orkhon Turkic Old Uyghur West Old Turkic Karakhanid?
Writing system	Old Turkic script, Old Uyghur alphabet
Language codes
ISO 639-3	otk – Old Turkish
Linguist List	otk Old Turkish
Glottolog	oldu1238

Old Siberian Turkic, generally known as East Old Turkic and often shortened to Old Turkic, was a Siberian Turkic language spoken around East Turkistan and Mongolia.^[1] It was first discovered in inscriptions originating from the Second Turkic Khaganate, and later the Uyghur Khaganate, making it the earliest attested Common Turkic language. In terms of the datability of extant written sources, the period of Old Turkic can be dated from slightly before 720 AD to the Mongol invasions of the 13th century.