The Chagatai language (Ottoman Turkish:جغتای ; Çağatay in modern Turkish) is an extinct Turkic language which was once widely spoken in Central Asia and most of Khorasan region. The word Chagatai relates to the Chagatai Khanate, the western part of the Mongol empire, which was left to Genghis Khan's second son Chagatai Khan. Many of the Chagatai Turks and Tatars who were the speakers of this language, claim descent from Chagatai Khan. Ottoman Turkish (Turkish: Osmanlıca, Ottoman Turkish:لسان عثمانی) is the variant of the Turkish language which was used as the administrative and literary language of the Ottoman Empire, containing extensive borrowings from Persian, which in turn had been permeated with Arabic borrowings. ... The Turkic languages are a group of closely related languages that are spoken by a variety of people distributed across a vast area from Eastern Europe to Siberia and Western China. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Khorasan (also spelled Khurasan and Khorassan; Xorasan or Xurasan in Kurdish; خراسان in Persian) is an area, located in eastern and northeastern Iran. ... Chagatai Khan (alternative spellings Chagata, Chugta, Chagta, Djagatai, Jagatai), a son of Genghis Khan (1206—1227), controlled the part of the Mongol Empire which extended from the Ili river (eastern Kazakhstan) and Kashgaria (western Tarim Basin) to Transoxiana. ... Mongol Empires largest extent coloured in blue. ... Genghis Khan (c. ... Chagatai Khan (alternative spellings Chagata, Chugta, Chagta, Djagatai, Chaghtai) was the second son of Genghis Khan. ... Chagatai Khan (alternative spellings Chagata, Chugta, Chagta, Djagatai) was the second son of Genghis Khan. ... Tatars (Tatar: Tatarlar/Татарлар) (Persian: تاتار) is a collective name applied to the Turkic people of Eastern Europe and Central Asia. ...

It was developed as a sophisticated written language using the Arabic alphabet. It was heavily influenced by Arabic and Persian, and incorporated much of the nomadic Turkish, and served as a lingua franca in Central Asia. It can be divided into three periods: 1. Pre-classical chagatai 1400-1465, 2. Classical Chagatai 1465-1600 and 3. Post-classical Chagatai 1600-1921. The first period is a transitional phase caracterized by the retention of archaic forms, the second phase starts with the publication of Mir Alisher Navoi's first divan and is the highpoint of Chagatai literature, and the third phase is caracterized by two bifurcating developments. One is the preservation of the classical Chagatai language of Navoi, the other trend is the increasing influence of the dialects of the local spoken languages. Uzbek and modern Uyghur are the two modern languages most closely related to Chagatai. In Uzbekistan, then a part of the Soviet Union, Chagatai was not replaced by a literary language based on the local Uzbek dialect until 1921. The Arabic alphabet is the script used for writing in the Arabic language. ... The Arabic language (Arabic: ‎ translit: ), or simply Arabic (Arabic: ‎ translit: ), is the largest member of the Semitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family (classification: South Central Semitic) and is closely related to Hebrew and Aramaic. ... Persian (known variously as: فارسی Fārsi or پارسی Pārsi, local name in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan, Tajik, a Central Asian dialect, or Dari, another local name in Tajikistan and Afghanistan) is a language spoken in Iran, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Bahrain, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Southern Russia, neighboring countries, and elsewhere. ... Lingua franca, literally Frankish language in Italian, was originally a mixed language consisting largely of Italian plus a vocabulary drawn from Turkish, Persian, French, Greek and Arabic and used for communication throughout the Middle East. ... Nizamiddin Mir Alisher Navoi (1441-1501) Alisher Navoi (also known as Navoiy, Ali Sher Navai, Ali Şir Nevai (Turkish), Nawoi; 1441-1501) was a Central Asian poet who lived in Herat during the 15th century. ... The Uyghur (Uyghur: ئۇيغۇر; Turkish: Uygur; Simplified Chinese: 维吾尔; Traditional Chinese: 維吾爾; Pinyin: Wéiwúěr) are a Turkic people, forming one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the Peoples Republic of China. ...

Its last speaker is thought to have died in the 1990s.

Famous Chagatai literature: The most famous of the Chagatai poets is Mir Alisher Navoi. This is attested by the fact that Chagatai is sometimes called Nava'i's language. Among the prose works Baburnama, also known as "Tuska Babure" written by first Mughal Emperor Babur is highly regarded. Nizamiddin Mir Alisher Navoi (1441-1501) Alisher Navoi (also known as Navoiy, Ali Sher Navai, Ali Şir Nevai (Turkish), Nawoi; 1441-1501) was a Central Asian poet who lived in Herat during the 15th century. ... Baburnama or Babar Nameh (Persian: بابر نامہ) (literally: Book of Babur or Letters of Babur) are the memoirs of Zahir-ud-din Muhammad Babur, commonly known as Babur (1483-1530), the founder of the Mughal Empire and the great-great-great-grandson of Tamerlane. ... The Mughal Empire (alternative spelling Mogul, which is the origin of the word Mogul) of India was founded by Babur in 1526, when he defeated Ibrahim Lodi, the last of the Delhi Sultans at the First Battle of Panipat. ... Zahir-ud-din Mohammad Babur (Persian: محمد بابر) (February 14, 1483 – December 26, 1530), (also spelled ), Emperor and Founder of the Mughal dynasty of India. ...

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