Common Turkic languages

Common Turkic or Shaz Turkic is a taxon in some of the classifications of the Turkic languages which in Lars Johanson proposal contain the following subgroups:. In other classification schemes (A.Samoylovich, N.Baskakov, and others), the breakdown is different.

• Southwestern Common Turkic (Oghuz)
• Northwestern Common Turkic (Kipchak)
• Southeastern Common Turkic (Uyghuric)
• Northeastern Common Turkic (Siberian)

In that classification scheme, Common Turkic is opposed to Oghur Turkic or Lir-Turkic. The Common Turkic languages are characterized by sound correspondences such as Common Turkic š versus Oghuric l and Common Turkic z versus Oghuric r.