Abstract: This informative paper scrutinizes the languages spoken in Euroasian region; namely Turkish language and its dialects. It also gives background information about the historical period of Turkish language, starting from the period of the Association of Altay Languages to Modern Turkish (20 th Century and after). At the end of the paper, focusing on the national language problem of the Independent Turkic Republics, some solutions are suggested. Keywords: Languages, Euroasian languages, Turkish language. Avrasya Coğrafyasında Konuşulan Diller Öz: Bu bilgilendirici çalışma Avrasya bölgesinde konuşulan dilleri özellikle Türkçe ve lehçelerini incelemektedir. Aynı zamanda Altay Dil Ailesi’nden Modern Türkçe’ye kadar uzanan süreçte (20. Yüzyıl ve sonrası) Türk dilinin tarihi hakkında bilgiler sunmaktadır. Çalışmanın sonunda Bağımsız Türki Cumhuriyetlerinin ulusal dil problemine odaklana- rak bazı çözüm önerileri verilmektedir. Anahtar Kelimeler: Diller, Avrasya Dilleri, Türk Dili Spoken Languages in Eurasion Geography *) Instructor, Polatlı Vocational School of Health Sciences, Hacettepe University, Turkey. (e-posta: [email protected]) Gülay SARıÇOBAN (*) Atatürk Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi 2012 16 (3): 95-115
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Abstract: This informative paper scrutinizes the languages spoken in Euroasian region; namely Turkish language and its dialects. It also gives background information about the historical period of Turkish language, starting from the period of the Association of Altay Languages to Modern Turkish (20th Century and after). At the end of the paper, focusing on the national language problem of the Independent Turkic Republics, some solutions are suggested.
Avrasya Coğrafyasında Konuşulan DillerÖz: Bu bilgilendirici çalışma Avrasya bölgesinde konuşulan dilleri özellikle Türkçe ve
lehçelerini incelemektedir. Aynı zamanda Altay Dil Ailesi’nden Modern Türkçe’ye kadar uzanan süreçte (20. Yüzyıl ve sonrası) Türk dilinin tarihi hakkında bilgiler sunmaktadır. Çalışmanın sonunda Bağımsız Türki Cumhuriyetlerinin ulusal dil problemine odaklana-rak bazı çözüm önerileri verilmektedir.
Anahtar Kelimeler: Diller, Avrasya Dilleri, Türk Dili
“Everylanguageischaracterizedbyvariationwithinthespeechcommunitythatusesit.Thosevarieties,inturn,aremoreorlessdivergentfromoneanother.Thesedivergentvarieties are often referred to as dialects” (http://www.ethnologue.com/ethno_docs/introduction.asp#history).Therefore,wecanidentifyadialectasthedifferentformsofthesamelanguagespokenwithinthesamecommunityindifferentareasorhistoricallyspeakingindifferentages.Itisavarietyofacertainlanguage,differinginvocabulary,grammar or accent from others (Vardar, 1988). “Theymay be distinct enough to beconsideredseparatelanguagesorsufficientlysimilartobeconsideredmerelycharacteristicofaparticulargeographicregionorsocialgroupingwithinthespeechcommunity.Oftenspeakersmaybeveryawareofdialectvariationandbeabletolabelaparticulardialectwithaname.Inothercases,thevariationmaybelargelyunnoticedoroverlooked(http://www.ethnologue.com/ethno_docs/introduction.asp#history).
1. Tworelatedvarietiesarenormallyconsideredvarietiesof thesame language ifspeakers of each variety have inherent understanding of the other variety at afunctionallevel(thatis,canunderstandbasedonknowledgeoftheirownvarietywithoutneedingtolearntheothervariety).
2. Where spoken intelligibility between varieties is marginal, the existence of acommonliteratureorofacommonethnolinguisticidentitywithacentralvarietythatbothunderstandcanbea strong indicator that theyshouldneverthelessbeconsideredvarietiesofthesamelanguage.
The paramount common feature of the related communities is that they speak thesamelanguageinorderthat,throughlanguage,continuityofbothlanguageandnationalunityismaintained.However,intheperiodbeforethecollapseoftheUnionofSovietSocialistRepublics,Turkiccommunitiesembodiedinitandbeingmanipulatedthroughdifferentwrittenandorallanguageswereforcedtobedividedfromoneanother.Whatis
Turkish Language and its Dialects in Eurasian Geography Theterm”Eurasian”isnotonlyageographicalconceptincludingEastEurope,allthe
WestAsiaandRussia,Turkey,Ukraine,CentralAsianandCaucasuscountries,butalsoaconceptthatexplainshistorical,economicalandculturalinteractionofEurasianpeoplelivingin these largelands(Kireev,2002).AccordingtoKireev, thisconceptexpressesprimarily Russian and Turkey, as well as the interaction between Slavic and Turkicpeople.
Languagesspokenonearth,today,areevaluatedincertainlanguagefamilies(Tuna,2002).According to Tuna, Turkish which has the characteristics of an agglutinativelanguageisevaluatedinAltaicLanguageFamily.Hedefinestheterm“languagefamily”astheoneusedforspeciallanguages.Tohim,alanguagefamilyisagroupoflanguageswithdifferentbranchesfromamainlanguagethroughdevelopmentprocess.Hereportsthatitisacommonbeliefthatthelanguagesinthisgroupcomefromacommonroot.Namely,genetickinshipshouldbeconsideredwhenmentioninga language family. Insuchalanguagefamily,sub-branches,goingbackwards,endupinacommonlanguage,he believes. In this frame, when we examine Altaic language family, in the narrowsense,Turkish,Mongolian,Manchu-Tungusic,inthebroadsense,KoreanandJapaneselanguages are calledAltaic Language Family, he adds.He concludes that, today, thestudiesaboutAltaic Language TheoryareafieldthatisinterestedinAltayistic areaintheworldandtherearelotsofstudiesonthisissue.Iamnotgoingtomentionthespeculationsaboutthistheoryherebecauseitisnotrelevanttoourtopicdirectly.
So long as we accept the theory which states that Turkish, Mongolian, Manchu,Tungusic, Korean and Japanese languages come from a common root, the mainAltaiclanguage,theearliestperiodforTurkishisundoubtedlytheperiodoftheAltaiclanguageunity(Altaic Period)(Özyetkin,2006).Thatis,AltaicPeriodisahypothetical,suppositionalperiodthatTurkish,Mongolian,Manchu,TungusicandKoreanlanguagesconstituteamainlanguage,shereports.Sheindicatesthatunfortunately,thebeginningandendingdateofthisperiodarenotknown.Shestatesthattoday,theknowledgeaboutthisperiodconsistsofthehypotheticalknowledgeandconjecturesthatthecomparativelinguisticstudiesgiveus.
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Turkish spoken in awide geographical area, after it was separated from Altaic language unity, was exposed to some historical periods and branching with certaincharacteristics.WemayclassifythehistoricalperiodsofTurkishlanguageingeneralasbelow:
Historical periods of Turkish language1. TheperiodoftheAltaicLanguageUnity,2. TheperiodofFirstTurkish-Chuvash-theperiodofTurkishLanguageUnity
(Pre-Turkic)3. TheperiodofMainTurkish(Proto-Turkish)4. TheperiodofOldTurkish(6.th-10.thCentury)5. TheperiodofMiddleTurkish(11.th-16.thCentury)6. The period of New Turkish (New Written language) (16.th Century and
AccordingtoÖzyetkin(2006)today,agreatmanyoftheTurkishdialectsareusedinthestatusofstatelanguage,writtenlanguage,literarylanguageetc.IntherepublicsofAzerbaijan,Turkmenistan,Uzbekistan,Kazakhstan,andKyrgyzstan;intherepublicof Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Chuvash, Kabardino- Balkaria, Karachaevo- Cherkessia,Dagestan, Tuva, Saha (Yakut),Altay Khakas in Russian federation, Turkish dialectsnamedasthesameoftheserepublicshavethestatedstatusintheserepublics,independentrepublic or land, autonomous republics that were mentioned above. In the People’sRepublicofChina,UighurTurkslivingintheregionofXinjiangUighurAutonomoususetheirownwrittenlanguage.
At this point, today’s modern Turkish language area in terms of geographic andlinguisticbasisshouldbementioned; thereare6groupsbrieflyaccording toÖzyetkin(2006):
these five dialects asOguz–groupTurkish dialects. In these dialects,Khorassan doesnothavea written language.TheotherTurkishdialectseachare written languages.Turkish,AzerbaijaniandGagauzthatareveryclosetoeachotherareTurkishlanguages.TurcomanhasaspecialplaceinOguzgroupandislocatedinthefareasternpartoftheOguzgeographyandso,isveryclosetotheEastTurkish.
TheTurksofTurkeyarethelargestgroupintermsofthenumberofspeakersandthedispersivegeographyofthespeakersinOguzgroup.TurkishofTurkeyisbeingspokeninTurkey,therepublicofCyprus,Balkanstates,Greece,Bulgaria,thelandsofFormerYugoslavia,Macedonia andRomania, the states ofwest Europe and the continent ofAustralia.Latinscriptwasadopted inTurkeywith thealphabet revolution in theyearof1928.Turkishwriting language is shapedwith thebasisof Istanbulaccent.TurkeyTurkishhasanareaofagreatdealofsub-dialectsasAnatolianandRumeliadialects.
GagauzTurkishiscomposedofthesmallestbranchofOguzgroup.Today,amajorpartofthespeakersofthisbranchthatremainsinthewesternofOguzlanguageliveinthesouthoftherepublicofMoldovaandinthesouth–westofUkraine.Besides,thereareGagauzcommunitieslivinginBulgariaandDobrogeaandalsoinCaucasus.GagauzpeopleareamongChristianTurks.Theyfoundedanautonomousstatenamed“theplaceofGagauz”on20august1990.TheofficialspeakinglanguagesoftheirstateareGagauzlanguage, Romance andRussian.Whenwe examine theGagauzTurkish in terms oflinguistics,actually,it isanaccentofTurkeyTurkish.In1957,itgotanofficialstatueaswringlanguageinSovietsUnionandwaswrittenwithCyrillicalphabetuntil1996.Today,itisunderintenseinfluenceofSlaviclanguage.Especially,thisSlavicimpressionattractstheattentionsinthemorphologyofGagauzlanguage.
Apart from Gagauz language,Azerbaijan Turkish which is the most close to theTurkishofTurkeyisbeingspokenintherepublicofAzerbaijan,Armenia,GeorgiaandasthemostcrowdedpartinIran.(AccentofTabriz,Kashkay-Eynallu).KirkukTurkishspokeninIraqshouldberegardedasanaccentofAzerbaijanTurkish.Inthesecondperiodof19thC,anewerastartedinAzerbaijanhistorydividedintotwobyRussianoccupationwith Turkmenchay Treaty (1828). While NorthAzerbaijan was getting into Russiansovereignty,SouthAzerbaijanwasinthesovereigntyofIranandsolelyAzerbaijanTurkslived in two different mental, cultural and religious environments. SouthAzerbaijanpeoplewhoadoptedShiatraditionofIslamliveundertheimmenseinfluenceofPersianwhichistheLinguaFrancaoftheregion,andininteractionwithIranculture.
KhorassanTurkish that takesplace ineasternpartofOguzworld is spoken in theNorthEastofIran,theregionofKhorassan.IthadnotbeenknownalotaboutthatTurkishdialect until recently. It was considered that this dialectwas an accent ofTurcoman.However, ithasbeenrevealed in the importantstudies(1969) in thisfieldbyGermanTurcologistG.DoerferthatKhorassanTurkishhasasequivalentfeaturesasotherdialectsinOguzgroupaswell,.EvenifKhorassanTurkishresemblestoTurcoman,itdiffersintermsofmanyfeatures.
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other.ChuvashisregardedasthecurrentheirofOldBulgarianTurkish.Today,Chuvashpeople are supposed to be in Turkish Idyll-Ural.. They live in Chuvashia, TatarstanandBashkortostanwhichareunderRussianFederation.ChuvashpeopleareOrthodoxChristians.TheyhavebeenincontactwithFinno-UighurpeopleintheseregionswheretheChuvashpeoplelivesinceancienttimes.ThenameofChuvashwasfirstlyencounteredinaRussiandocumentwrittenin16thcentury.Chuvashpeople,whowereMuslimbefore,wereChristianizedthroughmissionaryactivitiesinRussianpeople.
As a result ofmodern language researches developed in the early 20th century ithasbeenproved thatChuvash language isTurkish.Today,Chuvash is ina top-dialectpositionamongTurkishlanguagesanditshouldbeevaluatedinanalternativegroupintheclassificationofthedialect.
G.Doerfer in therecenthistory(1968). It isacharacteristicTurkishdialect thathasagreatdealofarchaicfeaturesofOldTurkishandtakesplaceinaprivategroupinmodernTurkishdialectsintermsofthelanguagefeaturesithas.Halachlanguagedoesnothaveawrittenlanguage.
Other Languages Spoken in Eurasian GeographyBalkansTheBalkanPeninsula,duetoitsgeologicalsituation,isthelargestoneofthreemajor
The languages stated in the frame of “the Union of Balkan Languages” are “a.Albanian,b.Greek,c.Roman (Gipsy) language,d.some Latin languages (Rumanian, Vlah language, Megleno- Rumanian and Istria- Rumanian),e.Some Slavic languages (Bulgarian Macedonian and Serbian, especially the Torlakian dialect which is transitional between Macedonian, Bulgarian and Serbian.All the same, it shouldbe rememberedthattheselanguageshavesimilaritiescomingfromthecommonoriginamongthem.f.Turkish andg.Ladino (the language of Jewish who resided in Balkans by emigrating from Spain in 15th Century until 20th Century)”(http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkan_dil_birli%C4%9Fi).
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However, not all of these languages have the same number of features shared.That is why they are divided into three groups (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkan_sprachbund):
1. Albanian, Romanian, Macedonian, Aromanian andBulgarian have the mostpropertiesincommon.
3. Turkish - shares mainly vocabulary and replacement of infinitive withsubjunctive.
The Finnish linguistJouko Lindstedtcomputed in 2000 a “Balkanization factor”which gives each Balkan language a score proportional with the number of featuresshared in the Balkan linguistic union.The results were (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkan_sprachbund):
In this web site we can also witness that “another language that may have beeninfluenced by the Balkan language union is theJudeo-Spanish variant that used tobe spoken bySephardi Jews living in the Balkans. The grammatical features shared(especiallyregardingthetensesystem)weremostlikelyborrowedfromGreek.”
“Since most of these features cannot be found in languages related to those thatbelong to the linguistic union (such as other Slavic or Romance languages), earlyresearchers,includingKopitar,believedtheymusthavebeeninheritedfromthePaleo-Balkanlanguages (Illyrian, Thracian andDacian)whichformedthesubstrate formodernBalkanlanguages.ButsinceverylittleisknownaboutPaleo-Balkanlanguages,itcannotbedeterminedwhether thefeatureswerepresent.ThestrongestcandidateforasharedPaleo-Balkan feature is the postposed article” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balkan_sprachbund).
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islandandintheruralpartsandvillagesofAthensandEpirregion.Peoplespeakingthislanguagearecalled“Arnevits”.Generally,theelderlypeoplespeakit;theyoungmigratetoAthens and they are subjected to assimilation by Greeks. These people speakingAlbanianinGreeceareChristians.
2. Armenian20.000ArmeniansspeakArmenianinGreeceandtheyareChristians.3. Bulgarian Itisspokenbyabout30.000PomaksinGreece.TheyareMuslims.4. MacedonianItisspokenby180.000(accordingto1986census)Macedonianminoritywhoconstitute
1.8%ofGreecepopulation.Greeksusetheexpression“Slavic”forthislanguage.5. Balkanic RomanianIt is a gypsy language. It is spokenby 40.000Muslimgypsies in total, 30.000of
whomspeakGreekRomanianinGreeceand10.000ofwhomspeakArlijadialect.6. Vlach Romanian TheLovaridialectofthislanguagewhichisalsonamedwiththenamesof“Romanes,
TsinganiandRom”isspokenbyagroupof1.000Christiangypsies inGreece. Theycall themselves “Rom”.While some settledgypsies call themwith a secondname as“Tsingani”,theycallunsettledgypsies“Yifti”.
8. Romanian of MasedThis languagewhich is also called “Arumence,Aromence andArmina” is spoken
by 50.000 people in Northwest Thessaloniki and North Greece, and around PindusMountainandTrikala.Thechildrenofthisgroup,studyingatGreekschoolsandknownas“Armini,”areassimilatedinGreekcultureinafastway.Peopleattherateof20%goontheirtraditionallives.
9. Romanian of MeglenThislanguagealsocalled“Meglenitik”isspokeninthesouthofThessalonikiwhich
isMeglenregion.10. Croatian of SerbOnepartofthosespeakingthislanguage,whichisalsocalledSerbianisMuslims,one
Population:Approximately2,000,000(2010)Ethnic distribution of population:Albanian92%,others8%.Languages:OfficiallanguageisAlbanian,Serbian.(http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosova)
h.RomaniaPopulation:22,215,421(July,2009)Ethnic distribution of population:Romanian89,5%,Hungarian7,1%,Roma1,8%,
German0,5%,Ukrainian0,3%,others0,8(1992)Languages: Romanian, Hungarian, Deutsch, Romanian are the representatives of
Latinlanguagesateasternmost.
i.MontenegroPopulation:Approximately684,736July(2007)Ethnic distribution of population: Languages:OfficiallanguageisMontenegron.http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karada%C4%9F
j.SerbiaPopulation: Approximately7,334,935(2010)
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Ethnic distribution of population:82.86%Serbian,3.91%Hungarian,1.81%Bosnian,1.44%Roman,1.08%Yugoslavian,%10Others
Languages:OfficiallanguageisSerbian.Slovenia Population:Approximately5,447,502(2007)Ethnic distribution of population: Languages:OfficiallanguageisSlovak.http://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovakya
TurkeyPopulation:76,805,52(2009) Ethnic distribution of population: Languages:OfficiallanguageisTurkish.http://www.ulkeler.net/turkiye.htm#02
Italy Population:58,126,212(July,2009) Ethnic distribution of population:Italian.Languages:OfficiallanguageisItalian,German,French,Slovene,http://www.ulkeler.
Hatkoy,Temirgoy(Kemirguey),Natuhay,Kabardey.b. Chechen- Lezgin languages(inthemiddleCaucasus)It is spoken by the people of Chechen- Ingushetia, Lezgin, Avars, Lak, Dargı,
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3. Iranian languages -Ossetian (in the middle Caucasus) -Tat (in Daghıstan)a. Azerbaijan Population:8,238,672(July,2009)Ethnic distribution of population:Azerbaijani90%,Dağıstan3.2%,Russia2.5%,
Central AsiaWhiledifferentideasaresetforthonthegeographyofCentralAsia,thetermismostly
usedfortheregionsurroundedbyRussian,China,Afghanistan,IranandCaspianSea,which extend fromVolga toYellowSea, fromSiberia to theHimalayas.This region,called CentralAsia, was named as Turkistan in the past. Persian-Turkish languages,Islamic religion, patriarchal family and hierarchical authority structure are among thedeterminingfactorsoftheregion.
This institute reports thatofficial language isKazakh.Kazakhcomes fromNogai-Kipchaklanguagefamilygroupandthereareseveraldialectsofitthatdonotdifferfromeachother.Besides,KazakhisalsospokeninAfghanistan,ChinaandIran.Accordingto
Accordingtothisstudy,Kirghiz,putintopracticewiththeArabicalphabetin1923forthefirsttime,wasstartedtobewrittenusingLatinin1928andCyrillicalphabetin1940.Kirghiz,whichhasshowedimprovementuntil1960,startedtoprogressasaresultofchangeofSoviet languagepolicy in thisperiod.Hemaintains thatKirghizcourseswereremovedfromuniversitiesandschoolsalmostall,andasaresultonlyoneschoolprovidingKirghizeducationremainedinthecenter.
UzbekistanTheUzbeks constitute 71% ofUzbekistan population.TheRussians, having 10%
ratecomesecond.Otherethnicelementsand their rates to thegeneralpopulationare:theTajiks4.7%,theKazakhs4%,theKarakalpaks2%,theTatars1.7%,andtheCrimeaTatars1%.Therateofethnicelementsoutsideoftheseisunder1%.(http://www.enfal.de/ozbekistan.htm)
The same study also reports thatTajik,writtenwithArabic alphabet in 1930 andCyrillicalphabetin1940,continuedtobeusedduringtheSovietUnionperiod.Whilelanguage lawswereput intopracticealmosteverywhere in theSovietUnion in1989,TajikwasacceptedasthestatelanguageinTajikistaninJuly22,1989.
Turkmenistan The3.5millionpopulationofTurkmenistanin1989,thesmallestandpoorestcountry
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Relationship of Turkey with Turkish RepublicsIntheReportofTurkey-TurkicRepublicsRelations(1995),Turkeytendedtobequiet
andindifferenttowardstheTurkishworldoutsideherbordersuntilnow.However,theeventswhich occurred so farmadeTurkey the focus of attention for the independentTurkishstates,RussianFederationandTurkiccommunitieslivingindifferentpositionsinotherstates.ThemostimportantreasonforthisisthedistancekeptbyTurkeythatisinthesameancestryandculturecirclewithfederalstatesandcommunitiesasaresultofherexperiencesinvaluesandpracticessuchasdemocratic,pluralistparliamentarysystem,freedomofreligionandconscience,andmarketeconomy.
Languages Spoken in the Other Eurasian CountriesChinaPopulation:1,338,612,968(July,2009)Ethnic Distribution of Population:Chinese91.9%,Zhuang,Uyghur,Hui,Yi,Tibetan,
Conclusion and SuggestionsLanguageisoneofthemostimportantelementsofanation.Therearemanynations
inEurasiangeographywehaveexamined.Eachofthemhastheirownlanguagesandalsotheselanguageshaveaspecifichistory.Inthisgeography,Indo-Europeanlanguages(suchasGreekandAlbanian),Slav language (suchasBulgarian,Macedonian,andSerbian)andUralic-Altaic languages (such asTurkish and its dialects) are themostly spokenlanguages.
In the historical process, another feature developing together with language isindependency.Nationswereabletousealanguageoftheirownonlywhentheywerefreeandindependent,likeincountrieswhichreachedtheirindependenceintheCentralAsiaandCaucasus.Wecansaythattheuseofanationallanguageisthesignoffreedomandindependentidentityofthatstate.Thisconclusionevenprovesthatlanguageisanationalassetthatshouldmeticulouslybeprotectedandimproved.
AmongtheparamountissuesoftheindependentTurkicRepublicscomesthe“nationallanguage problem”first.A big difference betweenTurkish languages (dialects) is notseenintheregionsTurkslivedbeforeSovietinvasion.DialectsofKazakh,Karakalpaks,Kirghiz,andTatarswereverysimilartoeachother,andpeoplelivingintheseregionscouldunderstandeachothereasily.
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alphabetuntil 1928.Following the foundationofTurkishRepublic,Latin letterswereswitchedin1928whileCyrillicalphabet,usedbycommunists,wasimposedonTurksinCentralAsiain1940.
4. keeping inmind thatnot the languages,but the languagegroupswithdifferentbenefitsandattitudestowardslanguageconflict;consideringthatsolutionstothelanguageproblemslieinchanginglanguageattitudes,asetofvaluesandbeliefsaboutlanguage.
Last but not the least;we can say that a languagewill only have fulfilled its realfunctionwhenitactsasabridgenotanobstaclefornationstobecomefree,communicate,establishconnectionswithothersineconomy,culture,history,policy,etc.
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