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The Oghur or Oğuric languages (also known as Bulgar, Pre-Proto Bulgaric, Hunno-Bulgarian, Hunno-Turkic, or Lir-Turkic and r-Turkic) are a branch of the Turkic language family according to the Sun Language Theory. The only extant member of the group is the Chuvash language. Languages from this family were spoken in some nomadic tribal confederations, such as those of the Onogurs, Bulgars, and Khazars. Some scholars consider Hunnic a similar language.

History

The Oghuric language is part of Turkic language distinct from the Common Turkic. Today is represented only by Chuvash, while the Bulgar, and related Khazar, went extinct. There's no content among linguists on the relation between Oghuric and Common Turkic. There several issues without clear conclusion; if they are parallel branches of Proto-Turkic (3000-500 BC), which branch is more arhaic and which split up, was Oghuric a separate tongue, and did Oghuric represent Archaic Turkic before phonetic changes in ca. 100-400 AD.

Features

The Oghuric languages are also known as "-r Turkic" because the final consonant in relevant words is "*r", not the "*z" in Common Turkic and so the term is Oghur in Oghuric and Oghuz in Common Turkic. More specific shifts are Com. "š" > Oğ. "l" (tâš - tâl; stone); "s" > "š"; "č" > "ś"; "k/q" > "ğ"; "y" > "j, ś"; "d,δ" > "δ - z (10th cent.), r (13th cent.)"; "ğd" > "z - r (14th cent.)"; "a" > "l (after 9th cent.)".

Denis Sinor believes that the difference means that those tribes could not have come from lands like Mongolia, which uses a "-z" language. However, there many loanwords in Mongolic from Oghuric, like Mong. ikere, Oghur. *ikir, Hung. iker, Comm. ikiz (twins). It is believed that they lived in the Mongolian borderlands before the 5th century.

Oghuric languages have some specific features: unlike other Altaic, they have initial consonant clusters; unlike Mongolian, they have no initial dental or velar spirants (like Turkic). Finally, unlike Turkic, they have initial voiced b- and both -p- and -b- in the middle of words and initial n- (like Mongolian).

The Oghuric tribes are often connected with the Hungarians whose ethnonym is usually derived from Onoghurs (> (H)ungars). The Hungarians were mixed Finno-Ugric and Turkic, with strong Oghuric-Bulgar and Khazar influences. Hungarian has many borrowings from Turkic and Oghuric languages: Hung. tenger, Oghur. *tengir, Comm. tengiz (sea), Hung. gyũrũ, Oghur. jürük, Comm. yüzük (ring), and terms of equestrian culture ló (horse), nyereg (saddle), fék (bridle), ostor (whip). A number of Hungarian loanwords were borrowed before the 9th century, shown by sz- (< Oğ. ś-) rather than Comm. gy- (< Oğ. ǰ-): example Hung. szél, Oghur. *śäl, Chuv. śil, Comm. yel (wind), Hung. szűcs (tailor), Hung. szőllő (grapes).

References

1. ^ Golden 2011, p. 30.
2. Golden 2011, p. 39.
3. ^ Granberg, Antoaneta (2008). "The Hunno-Bulgarian Language" (PDF). The DSCA journal. Danish Society for Central Asia: 9. ISSN 1604-8865.
4. Pritsak 1982, p. 459. sfn error: multiple targets (2×): CITEREFPritsak1982 (help)
5. Golden 2011, p. 239.
6. Pritsak, Omeljan (1982). The Hunnic Language of the Attila Clan (PDF). Vol. IV. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. p. 470. ISSN 0363-5570.
7. ^ Golden 1992, p. 95–96.
8. Golden 1992, p. 20, 96.
9. Golden 2011, p. 30, 236–239.
10. Golden 2011, p. 29.
11. Golden 2011, p. 31.
12. Golden 1992, p. 102–103.
13. Golden 1992, p. 262.
14. Golden 2011, p. 333.
15. Golden 1992, p. 259–260.
16. ^ Golden 2011, p. 164.
17. Golden 1992, p. 259.

Sources

• Pritsak, Omeljan (1982). The Hunnic Language of the Attila Clan (PDF). Vol. IV. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. ISSN 0363-5570.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link)
• Golden, Peter Benjamin (1992). An introduction to the History of the Turkic peoples: ethnogenesis and state formation in medieval and early modern Eurasia and the Middle East. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz. ISBN 9783447032742.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link)
• Golden, Peter B. (2011). Studies on the Peoples and Cultures of the Eurasian Steppes. Editura Academiei Române; Editura Istros a Muzeului Brăilei. ISBN 9789732721520.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link)

v t e Turkic languages
Proto-language	Proto-Turkic
Common Turkic	Argu Argu Khalaj Karluk Western Northern Uzbek Southern Uzbek Eastern Ili Turki Uyghur Khoton Lop Äynu Old Chagatai Karakhanid Khorezmian Kipchak Bulgar Bashkir Tatar Mishar Tatar Nagaibak Old Tatar Cuman Armeno-Kipchak Crimean Tatar Cuman Karachay-Balkar Karaim Krymchak Kumyk Mamluk-Kipchak Urum Kyrgyz Fergana Kipchak Kyrgyz Pamir Kyrgyz Siberian Tatar Baraba Tom Southern Altai Telengit Teleut Nogai Dobrujan Tatar Karakalpak Kazakh Nogai Siberian Tatar Tobol-Irtysh Oghuz Salar Eastern Khorasani Turkic Turkmen Trukhmen Southern Afshari Chaharmahali Turkic Qashqai Sonqori Western Azerbaijani North Azerbaijani South Azerbaijani Ajem-Turkic Balkan Gagauz Gagauz Karapapakh Turkish Karamanli Turkish Old Anatolian Turkish Ottoman Turkish Siberian Northern Dolgan Yakut Southern Chulym Lower Chulym Sayan Steppe Tuvan Taiga Dukhan Soyot Tofa Yenisei Fuyu Kyrgyz Khakas Northern Altai Chelkan Kumandy Tuba Shor Western Yugur Old Old Uyghur Orkhon Turkic
Oghur	Bulgar Chuvash
Disputed classification	Khazar Pecheneg
Potentially Turkic languages	Di Hunnic Jie Pannonian Avar Tuoba Wusun Xiongnu
Creoles and pidgins	Hezhou Kurbet Qoqmončaq
Italics indicate extinct languages Languages between parentheses are varieties of the language on their left.

• Turkic languages
• Oghur languages
• Agglutinative languages
• Vowel-harmony languages