• Orkhon Turkic (also Göktürk), is the first stage of Old Turkic, known as the oldest Turkic literary language preceding Old Uyghur. It is generally used...
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  • The Old Turkic script (also known as variously Göktürk script, Orkhon script, Orkhon-Yenisey script, Turkic runes) was the alphabet used by the Göktürks...
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  • century. Old Turkic can generally be split into two dialects, the earlier Orkhon Turkic and the later Old Uyghur. There is a difference of opinion among linguists...
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    the Old Turkic alphabet in the early 8th century in the Orkhon Valley in what is modern-day Mongolia. They were erected in honor of two Turkic princes...
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  • Although the Göktürks spoke a Siberian Turkic language directly antecedent to the Orkhon Turkic of the Second Turkic Khaganate, the First Khaganate's early...
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    Proto-Turkic. The first established records of the Turkic languages are the eighth century AD Orkhon inscriptions by the Göktürks, recording the Old Turkic...
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  • substrate; people shifted first to a Turkic language and after to a Mongolian one - Buryat) (extinct) Orkhon Turkic / Old Turkic / Old Uyghur (extinct) (not a...
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    fell in battle. The centre of the Second Turkic Khaganate shifted to the Otuken mountains, and the rivers Orkhon, Selenga and Tola. In 691 Ilterish Qaghan...
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  • different Mongolian Aimags: Orkhon, Bulgan Orkhon, Darkhan-Uul Orkhon, Selenge Orkhon script, a historic script of Turkic origin Orkhon inscriptions, inscriptions...
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    The Orkhon River (/ˈɔːrkɒn/; Mongolian: Орхон гол [ˈɔrχɞɴ‿ɢɜɮ]) is a river in Mongolia. The Orkhon river derives its name from the Old Turkic prefix "or"...
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