25-03-2022, 10:57 PM
[quote="GeoffreySea" pid='49077' dateline='1645820024']
[I am trying to get clear on what they mean when they say "Turkic" or "Old Turkish" -- neither of which is a language. Turkic is a huge language family. Do they mean:
a. an old form of Turkish
b. the Old Turkic language which would correspond to the Gokturk language.
c. some vague form of early Turkic that they have not yet figured out.]
None of the options you show here.
Since we could not define the dialect of the author, we used the word Turkic.
It is also possible to use the word Turkic to define the languages developed depending on the Turkish language as a whole as a family.
[I am trying to get clear on what they mean when they say "Turkic" or "Old Turkish" -- neither of which is a language. Turkic is a huge language family. Do they mean:
a. an old form of Turkish
b. the Old Turkic language which would correspond to the Gokturk language.
c. some vague form of early Turkic that they have not yet figured out.]
None of the options you show here.
Since we could not define the dialect of the author, we used the word Turkic.
It is also possible to use the word Turkic to define the languages developed depending on the Turkish language as a whole as a family.