Armeno-Kipchak (''Xıpçaχ tili'', ''bizim til'', ''Tatarça'') was a

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belonging to Kipchak branch of the family that was spoken in

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during the 14–15th centuries. The language has been documented from the literary monuments of 16–17th centuries written in Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (modern day

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) in the Armenian script. Armeno-Kipchak resembles the language of ''

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'', which was compiled in the 13th century. Speakers of the Armeno-Kipchak are considered to be linguistically assimilated

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( Armeno-Kipchaks). Armeno-Kipchaks generally identified as Armenian.

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{{Armenia-hist-stub Agglutinative languages Kipchak languages Armenian languages Extinct languages of Europe

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