ON THE PROJECT O F
“ENDANGERED TURKIC LANGUAGES”
Süer EKER (PROJECT MANAGER)Baskent University
Faculty of Science and Letters
Department of Turkish Language and Literature
ANKARA
According to the UNESCO’s “Atlas of Endangered Languages”, all the Turkic
languages in RF are in danger, except for Tatar.
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A majority of the Turkic languages are no longer successfully transmitted
to the following generations as mother tongues.
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Small (lesser spoken) Turkic languages heading for extinction…
One of Endangered Turkic Languages: Dukha Language, Mongolia,
spoken by around 200 people
The project,
aims to construct a collective and
comprehensive academic ground
and platform among Turcologists
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and platform among Turcologists
and other scholars.
The project is carried out in three fields:
�Last Voices Web Site
http://tehlikedekidiller.com
�Journal of Endangered Languages · Turkic Languages/ JofEL
http://dergi.tehlikedekidiller.com
�The Handbook of Endangered Turkic Languages (H-ETL)
http://tehlikedekidiller.com/tehlikedeki-turk-dilleri-el-kitabi-2
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“LAST VOICES” WEB SITE
The web site, aims to become a
collective scientific-popular platform
of broad participation.
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and
it is open to news pieces, articles,
evaluations, comments, and the like
contributed by academics of all levels,
researchers, graduate students and
academic candidates.
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The main goal of the journal is to draw an
academic attention to the concept of
“endangered (Turkic ) languages”…
E- JOURNAL: “JOURNAL OF ENDANGERED
LANGUAGES · TURKIC LANGUAGES” (JofEL)
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JofEL is an internationally refereed
journal that began its publication life at
the end of 2012.
It is published twice a year as “Fall” and
“Spring” issues.
JofEL allows for original articles on
Turkic languagesand
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and
“neighboring” or “relative” languages
in danger.
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The web site and e-journal, other than Turkic
linguistics, are open to diciplines such as
sociolinguistics, anthropology, culturology etc.
The three-volume handbook, which will
analyze more than a total of forty Turkic
variaties
Turkish version of the books will be ready for
publication at the end of 2013 (English
HANDBOOK OF ENDANGERED
TURKIC LANGUAGES
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publication at the end of 2013 (English
version , in 2014).
�A Urum ethnonyms (Internal Naming and External Naming)
�Religion and Culture
�Geography and Population
�Historical Background
�Orthography
Language (This chapter should be at least 50 %)
COMMON WRITING PLAN
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Language (This chapter should be at least 50 %)
�Place of Urum Amoung the Turkic Languages
�Dialectology of Urum
�Phonology
�Morphology
�The Lexicon and the Sociolinguistic Features
�Original Sample Text in Urum Language and Its translation into Turkey
Turkish
�Bibliography (BY STAVROS SKOPETEAS)
A COMPLETED PROJECT
REDRAWING OF BORDERS AND
RECONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITIES
IN EURASIA
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TURKIC LANGUAGES · TURKIC PEOPLES · RELATIONS
WITH TURKEY
REDRAWING OF BORDERS
AND RECONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITIES IN EURASIATURKIC LANGUAGES · TURKIC PEOPLES · RELATIONS WITH TURKEY
The aim of this project is to analyze, from a
sociopolitical and sociolinguistic perspective,
the process of cultural and social change and of
identity and nation building experienced by
Turkic language communities following the
disintegration of the Soviet Union.
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disintegration of the Soviet Union.
Istst VOLUME
In the 20th Anniversary of Independence of Central Asian
Republics - Turkic Speaking Peoples, Relations with Turkey-
Ankara: Ataturk Culture Center, p. xx+ 686.
IIndnd VOLUME
In the 20th Anniversary of Independence of Azerbaijan, Georgia
and Ukraine - Turkic Speaking Peoples, Relations with Turkey-
Ankara: Ataturk Culture Center, p. xx+ 504.
IIIrdrd VOLUME
Russian Federation: 20 Years After the Collapse of the Soviet Union
· Turkic Speaking Peoples, Relations with Turkey-Ankara: Ataturk
Culture Center, xxi + p. 870.
IVth VOLUME
Turkic Speaking Peoples in the Post-Sovied Period: Language
Problem and Reshaped Identities. Ankara: Ataturk Culture Center,
p. xxxiv+ 302.
The Journal of Endangered Languages, and the Handbook of
Endangered Turkic Languages kindly invites you to consider
submitting original articles written in the light of modern scientific
and sociolinguistic principles and focusing mainly on endangered
CALL FOR PAPERS
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and sociolinguistic principles and focusing mainly on endangered
Turkic languages, as well as on other Eurasian languages and cultures
being in direct contact with any of the endangered languages and
peoples in question.
Besides the fields of linguistics and Turcology, project is open to any
original research from the fields such as anthropology, ethnography,
sociology, and so on.