Fergana Kipchak language

Fergana Kipchak
Färğona tili/Фәрғона тили
Region	Central Asia (Fergana Valley)
Extinct	1920s
Language family	Turkic Common Turkic Kipchak Eastern (Kyrgyz-Kipchak) Fergana Kipchak
Language codes
ISO 639-3	qwm
Linguist List	qwm
Glottolog	None

Fergana Kipchak, also Kuman, Qomanian, or Kipchak Uzbek, is an extinct Turkic language formerly spoken in the Fergana Valley in Central Asia. It split from East Kipchak in the middle of the 8th century (the South Altay language likely split earlier). Other East Kipchak dialects gave rise to the modern Kyrgyz language. In some districts of Fergana Region the features of Kipchak are seen, especially in phonetics. These regions (uzbek tuman) are Bagʻdod, Buvayda, Uchkoʻprik, and some parts of neighboring districts. Many idioms spoken in Uzbekistan that are now considered part of the Kyrgyz language are actually Fergana Kipchak dialects. According to the E. D. Polivanov, the Fergana Kipchak language existed as a separate idiom as late as in the 1920s. According to A. N. Samoilovich's latest research, some descendants of Fergana Kipchaks identify themselves as a separate ethnic group independent from the Uzbeks, Kazakhs or the Kyrgyz, although closely related to the latter. Some modern Fergana Kipchak dialects seem closely related to the Kipchak–Nogay group of the Turkic languages.

See also

• Kipchaks
• Kipchak language
• Kipchak languages
• Cumans
• Cuman language
• Fergana Valley

External links

• Особенности взаимного притяжения народов Archived 2012-02-24 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
• Кыргызы Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine (in Russian)
• Кипчакский компонент в этногенезе киргизов (in Russian)
• К вопросу о кыргызах и Фергане (in Russian)
• Саяно-Алтай и Тянь-Шань (in Russian)
• Кожом-Шукур (in Russian)
• Историографический обзор проблемы происхождения киргизов (in Russian)