Cuman language was a Turkic language spoken by the Kipchaks (also known as the Cumans) similar to today's Crimean Tatar language. It is documented in several medieval works, including the Codex Cumanicus. 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. ... Kipchaks (also Kypchaks, Qipchaqs) are an ancient Turkic people, first mentioned in the historical chronicles of Central Asia in the 1st millennium BC. Their language was also known as Kipchak. ... The Cumans, also known as Polovtsy (Slavic for yellowish) were a nomadic West Turkic tribe living on the north of the Black Sea along the Volga. ... The Crimean Tatar language or Crimean-Turkish (in its own script: Qırımtatar tili, Qırım Tatar dili resp. ... The Codex Cumanicus was a linguistic manual of the Middle Ages, presumably designed to help Catholic missionaries to the Kipchaks. ...

The Cumans were a nomad people that lived in the steppes of Eastern Europe, north of Black Sea before the Golden Horde. They have been incorporated into other Turkic peoples: Crimean Tatars, Kazan Tatars, Karachays. Pre-1989 division between the West (grey) and Eastern Bloc (orange) superimposed on current national boundaries: Russia (dark orange), other countries of the former USSR (medium orange) and other former communist regimes (light orange). ... Map of the Black Sea. ... This article refers to the Mongol state in what is now Russia. ... The Crimean Tatars (Qırımtatar aka Qırımtürk, Pl. ... Tatars or Tartars is a collective name applied to the Turkic-speaking people of Europe and Asia. ... Karachays are Turkic people of Karachay-Cherkessia. ...

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Codex Cumanicus