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Pecheneg is a Turkic language once spoken by the Pechenegs, one of the Central Asia origin Turkish peoples, but now has no native speakers. Between the 10th and 12th centuries the Pechenegs were influential especially in Central East Europe the Byzantine Empire and Russian territories and used their own language across this vast region. However no direct textual sources of the language have survived to the present day and knowledge of its features is derived solely from linguistic traces and ind