Khorezmian is generally thought to have emerged from the
Karakhanid language and to have transitioned into the
Chagatai language, which would remain an important language of Central Asia until the twentieth century. Khorezmian was based on
Old Turkic further to the east, though incorporating local
Oghuz and
Kipchak words.[1]
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abM. van Damme, "Rabghūzī", in Encyclopaedia of Islam, ed. by P. Bearman and others, 2nd edn (Leiden: Brill, 1960–2005),
doi:
10.1163/1573-3912_islam_SIM_6156.