<P> Babur 's memoirs form the main source for details of his life . They are known as the Baburnama and were written in Chaghatai Turkic , his mother - tongue , though , according to Dale , `` his Turkic prose is highly Persianized in its sentence structure , morphology or word formation and vocabulary . '' Baburnama was translated into Persian during the rule of Babur 's grandson Akbar . </P>
<P> Babur 's memoirs form the main source for details of his life . They are known as the Baburnama and were written in Chaghatai Turkic , his mother - tongue , though , according to Dale , `` his Turkic prose is highly Persianized in its sentence structure , morphology or word formation and vocabulary . '' Baburnama was translated into Persian during the rule of Babur 's grandson Akbar . </P>
what was the mother tongue of the mughals
what was the mother tongue of the mughals
Chaghatai Turkic
Chaghatai Turkic