Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk

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The Dīwān Lughāt al-Turk (Arabic: ديوان لغات الترك; translated to English as the Compendium of the languages of the Turks) is the first comprehensive dictionary of Turkic languages, compiled between 1072 and 1074 by the Kara-Khanid scholar Mahmud al-Kashgari, who extensively documented the Turkic languages of his time.

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