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This session concerns the Turkic language family, its relationship to other language families, and its historical development and spread on the Eurasian continent. Turkic languages contain more than 30 literary languages, plus numerous dialects that geographically range from Eastern Europe to Northeast China. These languages have been used to reflect the literary heritages of several dozen states, using numerous alphabets, during the past two millennia. They have borrowed words and paradigms from most of the Eurasian languages on the migration paths of the Turkic speakers and have, in turn, imparted an equal amount of their own vocabulary and paradigms to neighboring languages.
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