THE TURKIC LANGUAGES

<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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, <i>The Turkic Languages </i>will be invaluable to students and researchers within linguistics, Turcology, and Near Eastern and Oriental Studies.</p> <p>Contents</p><p>List of Tables and Figures</p><p><b>List of Contributors </b><b> </b></p><p><b>Preface </b></p><p><i>A General Introduction to the Turkic Family </i></p><p><i>The Structure of the Volume </i></p><p><i>Changes </i></p><p><i>Limitations </i></p><p><i>Diversity and Harmonization </i></p><p><i>Acknowledgements </i></p><p><b>Transcription and Notations </b></p><p><i>Actants </i></p><p><i>Name Forms </i></p><p><i>Transcription </i></p><p><i>Vowels </i></p><p>Basic Vowels </p><p>Non-prime Vowels </p><p><i>Consonants </i></p><p><i>Suffix Notations </i></p><p>Parentheses </p><p>Other Signs </p><p><b>Abbreviations in Glosses </b></p><p><b>1 The Speakers of Turkic Languages Hendrik Boeschoten </b></p><p><b>2 The Turkic Peoples: A Historical Sketch Peter B. Golden </b></p><p><b>3 The Structure of Turkic Lars Johanson </b></p><p><b>4 The Reconstruction of Proto-Turkic and the Genealogical Question András Róna-Tas </b></p><p><b>5 Transeurasian Martine Robbeets </b></p><p><b>6 The History of Turkic Lars Johanson </b></p><p><b>7 Turkic Writing Systems András Róna-Tas </b></p><p><b>8 East Old Turkic Lars Johanson </b></p><p><b>9 West Old Turkic László Károly </b></p><p><b>10 Middle Kipchak Árpád Berta and Éva Á. Csató </b></p><p><b>11 Chaghatay Hendrik Boeschoten </b></p><p><b>12 Ottoman Turkish Celia Kerslake </b></p><p><b>13 Turkish Éva Á. Csató and Lars Johanson</b></p><p><b>14 Turkish Dialects Bernt Brendemoen </b></p><p><b>15 The Turkish Language Reform Bernt Brendemoen </b></p><p><b>16 Gagauz Astrid Menz </b></p><p><b>17 Azeri Elisabetta Ragagnin </b></p><p><b>18 Turkmen Birsel Karakoç </b></p><p><b>19 Turkic Languages of Iran Christiane Bulut </b></p><p><b>20 Tatar and Bashkir Árpád Berta </b></p><p><b>21 West Kipchak Languages Árpád Berta & Éva Á. Csató </b></p><p><b>22 Kazakh and Karakalpak Aynur Abish </b></p><p><b>23 Noghay Birsel Karakoç </b></p><p><b>24 Kirghiz Birsel Karakoç and Kenjegül Kalieva </b></p><p><b>25 Uzbek Hendrik Boeschoten </b></p><p><b>26 Uyghur Abdurishid Yakup </b></p><p><b>27 Yellow Uyghur and Salar Abdurishid Yakup </b></p><p><b>28 South Siberian Turkic Claus Schönig and Irina Nevskaya </b></p><p><b>29 Yakut Astrid Menz and Vladimir Monastyrev </b></p><p><b>30 Chuvash Klára Agyagási </b></p><p><b>Index </b></p>