Turkic does not mean
Turkish,
pace Webster 1913. Turkic is these days the name for the
language family formerly known as
Turco-Tatar or
Turanian, and which includes not only Turkish and
Tatar but many other
Central Asian languages, such as
Uzbek,
Kyrgyz,
Yakut,
Uyghur,
Azeri,
Kazakh,
Turkmen,
Chuvash,
Qaraqalpaq, and
Bashkir.
They are characteristically agglutinative and have vowel harmony.
It is widely though not universally believed to be part of a larger family called Altaic, together with Mongolian and Manchu.