Editing Turkic languages (section)

==Characteristics==
{{See also|Altaic languages}}

[[File:Map-TurkicLanguages.png|thumb|330px|Map showing countries and autonomous subdivisions where a language belonging to the Turkic language family has official status]]

Turkic languages are [[null-subject language]]s, have [[vowel harmony]] (with the notable exception of [[Uzbek language|Uzbek]] due to strong Persian-Tajik influence), [[converb]]s, extensive [[Agglutinative language|agglutination]] by means of [[suffix]]es and [[Preposition and postposition|postpositions]], and lack of [[grammatical article]]s, [[noun class]]es, and [[grammatical gender]]. [[Subject–object–verb]] word order is universal within the family. In terms of the level of [[vowel harmony]] in the Turkic language family, [[Tuvan language|Tuvan]] is characterized as almost fully harmonic whereas [[Uzbek language|Uzbek]] is the least harmonic or not harmonic at all. Taking into account the documented historico-linguistic development of Turkic languages overall, both inscriptional and textual, the family provides over one millennium of documented stages as well as scenarios in the linguistic evolution of vowel harmony which, in turn, demonstrates harmony evolution along a confidently definable trajectory<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=si_KlRbL1XoC&dq=10+vowels+uzbek&pg=PA391|title=Artificial Life 8|page=391|isbn=9780262692816 |last1=Standish |first1=Russell K. |last2=Bedau |first2=Mark |last3=Abbass |first3=Hussein A. |date=25 August 2023 |publisher=MIT Press }}</ref> Though vowel harmony is a common characteristic of major language families spoken in Inner Eurasia ([[Mongolic languages|Mongolic]], [[Tungusic languages|Tungusic]], [[Uralic languages|Uralic]] and Turkic), the type of harmony found in them differs from each other, specifically, Uralic and Turkic have a shared type of vowel harmony (called ''palatal vowel harmony'') whereas Mongolic and Tungusic represent a different type.