Chagatai Language
Chagatai (جغتای Jağatāy) is an extinct Turkic language which was once widely spoken in Central Asia, and remained the shared literary language there until the early twentieth century. It was also spoken by the early Mughal rulers in the Indian subcontinent, where it influenced the development of Urdu. Ali-Shir Nava'i was the greatest representative of Chagatai literature. Soviet scholarship termed the language "Old Uzbek".
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