Associations to the word «Chagatai»

Wiktionary

CHAGATAI, proper noun. An extinct literary Turkic language used in Central Asia and Bashkortostan until the twentieth century.

Dictionary definition

CHAGATAI, noun. A Turkic literary language of medieval central Asia (named for one of the sons of Genghis Khan).

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope