The Turkic languages are spoken today in a vast geographical area stretching from southern Iran to the Arctic Ocean and from the Balkans to the great wall of China. There are currently 20 literary languages in the group, the most important among them being Turkish with over 70 million speakers; other major languages covered include Azeri, Bashkir, Chuvash, Gagauz, Karakalpak, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Noghay, Tatar, Turkmen, Uyghur, Uzbek, Yakut, Yellow Uyghur and languages of Iran and South Siberia.

The Turkic Languages is a reference book which brings together detailed discussions of the historical development and specialized linguistic structures and features of the languages in the Turkic family. Seen from a linguistic typology point of view, Turkic languages are particularly interesting because of their astonishing morphosyntactic regularity, their vast geographical distribution, and their great stability over time.

This volume builds upon a work which has already become a defining classic of Turkic language study. The present, thoroughly revised edition updates and augments those authoritative accounts and reflects recent and ongoing developments in the languages themselves, as well as our further enhanced understanding of the relations and patterns of influence between them. The result is the fruit of decades-long experience in the teaching of the Turkic languages, their philology and literature, and also of a wealth of new insights into the linguistic phenomena and cultural interactions defining their development and use, both historically and in the present day.

Each chapter combines modern linguistic analysis with traditional historical linguistics; a uniform structure allows for easy typological comparison between the individual languages. Written by an international team of experts, The Turkic Languages will be invaluable to students and researchers within linguistics, Turcology, and Near Eastern and Oriental Studies.

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Information

Publisher

Routledge

Year

2021

ISBN

9781000488241

Edition

Topic

Languages & Linguistics

Subtopic

Languages

Index

Languages & Linguistics

Cover
Half Title Page
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of tables, figures and maps
List of contributors
Preface
Transcription and notations
Abbreviations in glosses
1 The speakers of Turkic languages
2 The Turkic peoples: a historical sketch
3 The Structure of Turkic
4 The reconstruction of Proto-Turkic and the genealogical question
5 Transeurasian
6 The history of Turkic
7 Turkic writing systems
8 East Old Turkic
9 West Old Turkic
10 Middle Kipchak
11 Chaghatay
12 Ottoman Turkish
13 Turkish
14 Turkish Dialects
15 The Turkish language reform
16 Gagauz
17 Azeri
18 Turkmen
19 Turkic languages of Iran
20 Tatar and Bashkir
21 West Kipchak languages
22 Kazakh and Karakalpak
23 Noghay
24 Kirghiz
25 Uzbek
26 Uyghur
27 Yellow Uyghur and Salar
28 South Siberian Turkic
29 Yakut
30 Chuvash
Index