When a question was asked, would put on a mysterious look. Shake his head. Smoke in silence. Observe, at length, he had doubts. Presided at the council, in state. Swayed a Turkish pipe instead of a scepter. Known to sit with eyes closed ...[…]

… in Mongolian and some Turkish languages

Old Turkish began with the separation, formation and consolidation of the independent Turkish languages.

This is openly a characteristics of Chaghatay and other Eastern Turkish languages and dialects.

In the Timurid empire, the Chaghatay Turkish language, which became the standard of the Timurid court, was part of the eastern branch of Turkic languages.

This dictionary for Chaghatay Turkish (although it also contains much material for what the author calls 'Rūmī', i.e. south-western Turkish, above all, Ottoman) is the Sanglakh of an obscure eighteenth-century compiler

M.A. Òerbak considers Chaghatay Turkish a period of Uzbek.

… these works include stories of the battles the Turks fought against the Chinese, a variety of legends, and numerous specimens of verse (found mostly in Chinese translation) written in Uyghur Turkish.

And my uncle always shouted: “Uzbek Turkish is very close to our Turkish language!”

It was Navai who through his poetry almost single-handedly turned his native Chaghatay Turkish into a literary language.

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