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- The Kipchak languages (also known as the Kypchak, Qypchaq, Qypshaq or the Northwestern Turkic languages) are a sub-branch of the Turkic language family spoken by approximately 30 million people in much of Central Asia and Eastern Europe, spanning from Ukraine to China.
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The Kipchak languages (also known as the Kypchak, Qypchaq, Qypshaq or the Northwestern Turkic languages) are a sub-branch of the Turkic language family spoken by approximately 30 million people in much of Central Asia and Eastern Europe, spanning from Ukraine to China.
Kipchak, a loosely organized Turkic tribal confederation that by the mid-11th century occupied a vast, sprawling territory in the Eurasian Steppe, stretching from north of the Aral Sea westward to the region north of the Black Sea.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Language. The Kipchak–Cuman confederation spoke a Turkic language (Kipchak language, Cuman language) whose most important surviving record is the Codex Cumanicus, a late 13th-century dictionary of words in Kipchak, Cuman, and Latin.
The Kipchak languages constitute a vital branch of the larger Turkic language family. Historically, they were spoken by the Kipchak peoples across vast regions of Eurasia, stretching from present-day Russia to parts of Central Asia and the Middle East.
Cuman or Kuman (also called Kipchak, Qypchaq or Polovtsian, self referred to as Tatar (tatar til) in Codex Cumanicus) was a West Kipchak Turkic language spoken by the Cumans (Polovtsy, Folban, Vallany, Kun) and Kipchaks; the language was similar to today's various languages
Kazakh language, member of the Turkic language family within the Altaic language group, belonging to the northwestern, or Kipchak, branch. The Kazakh language is spoken primarily in Kazakhstan and in Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in China but is also found in Uzbekistan, Mongolia, and Afghanistan.
From the second half of the 13th century, Kipchak became a language of everyday use within the Golden Horde, even though official documents were written in Mongolian. The main source for the Kipchak language, the Codex Cumanicus written in the 14th century, used two names for the Kipchak language.
