Turkic Heritage Takes Spotlight on Global Cultural Stage
December 15 marked World Turkic Language Family Day, a date established by UNESCO to celebrate and promote the Turkic language family spoken by more than 200 million people worldwide.
The 43rd General Conference of UNESCO in Uzbekistan officially declared Dec. 15 as World Turkic Language Family Day to preserve, celebrate, and promote the Turkic language family.
The Turkic language family includes a large group of related languages spoken across Eurasia, from Eastern Europe and the Caucasus to Central, Western, Northern, and Eastern Asia. The languages originated around 2,500 years ago in a region stretching from western China to Mongolia, where Proto-Turkic is believed to have been spoken, and later spread across Central Asia and further west during the first millennium.
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