Turkology
Turkology, or Turkic studies, is the interdisciplinary scholarly field devoted to the languages, histories, literatures, cultures, and societies of the Turkic-speaking world. It encompasses linguistics, philology, anthropology, archaeology, and area studies, and covers communities across a broad belt from Eastern Europe and the Caucasus through Central Asia to Siberia and parts of the Middle East. The central focus is the Turkic language family, which includes Turkish, Azerbaijani, Kazakh, Uzbek, Turkmen, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Bashkir, Uyghur, and many others.
Subfields include historical and comparative linguistics (phonology, grammar, lexicon of Turkic languages), philology and manuscript studies,
Turkology developed in the 18th–19th centuries within European and Russian Orientalism and later became established in
Typical methods combine philology, manuscript criticism, and linguistic fieldwork with archaeology and ethnography, using a mix