Chagatai

Also Jaghatai.

[chah-guh-tahy, chag-uh-, chah-guh-tahy, chag-uh-]

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noun

a Turkic literary language of medieval Central Asia.

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This Nogodar had gone to the Court of Chagatai, who was own brother to the Great Kaan, with some 10,000 horsemen of his, and abode with him; for Chagatai was his uncle.