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Analyzing the Turkish language and it’s reform

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Before delving into the topic lets delve into the history of the Turkic languages (e.g. Turkish, Uzbek, Turkmen, Azerbaijani, Kazakh, etc.) Turkish was descended from Old Anatolian Oghuz (12th-15th centuries) which was descended from Early Oghuz (8th-11th centuries) [the language of the Oghuz Yabgu State and the Seljukid Turcomans] which was descended from Proto-Oghuz [5th-8th centuries] which is a reconstructed but undocumented sister of the historically well-documented East Old Turkic (6th-9th centuries) [the language of the Gokturk, Old Uyghur, Yenisei Kyrgyz texts]. Proto-Oghuz, Proto-Kypchak, Proto-Karluk, Proto-Khalaj, Proto-Yakut-Dolgan, Proto-Sayan and several other old Turkic languages were descended from Proto Common Turkic which came to existence in around 500 BC. Both Proto Common Turkic and Proto Oghur Turkic (the ancestor of Hun, Bulgar-Chuvash, Khazar, Onoghur languages) were descended from Proto-Turkic (formed in around 3000 BC, dissolved into two languages at around 50