Orkhon Turkic
Facts
- Language: Orkhon Turkic
- Alternate names: Runic Turkic, Orkhon-Yenisei Turkic
- Language code: douio
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- Dialect of: Old Turkic
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Introduction
Orkhon Turkic (also Göktürk) is the language used in the oldest known written Turkic texts. It is the first stage of Old Turkic, preceding Old Uyghur. It is generally used for the language in which the Orkhon and Yenisei inscriptions are written.