Turkic vs Turkish

Turkic

name
  • The language family that includes Turkish, Tatar, Bashkir, Kazakh, Uzbek, Azeri, Kyrgyz, Uyghur, Tuvan, Altai, Shor, Karakalpak, Khakas, Chuvash, Yakut, and any of the other dozens of languages spoken by Turkic peoples. It may be a subfamily of an Altaic language family. 

  • Any branch of that family. 

  • Any language of that family. 

adj
  • Of or relating to this language group or the people who speak it. 

Turkish

name
  • Synonym of Turkic 

  • The official language of Turkey, Republic of Cyprus (alongside Greek) and Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. 

adj
  • Of, from, or pertaining to Turkey, the Turkish people or the Turkish language. 

  • Synonym of Turkic 

How often have the words Turkic and Turkish occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )