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1. Kipchak Languages

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   The Kipchak languages, sometimes historically referred to as the Cumanic or Polovtsian languages, constitute a major branch of the Turkic language family. These languages are primarily spoken across a vast swathe of territory stretching from Eastern Europe across the Eurasian Steppe into Western Siberia. They are generally characterized by specific phonological shifts, such as the retention of the Proto-Turkic initial $y$ as $j$ (though some dialects famously exhibit *regressi…