According to UNESCO, it is believed that at least half of the nearly 7,000 languages spoken around the world will cease to be used within the next 100 years. If this issue is neglected, people will lose not only their cultural heritage but also invaluable understandings about the history of all humankind. Endangered Languages of the Caucasus and Beyond includes the manuscripts of 19 papers that were presented at the 1st International CUA Conference on Endangered Languages, organized by the Caucasus University Association (CUA), at Ardahan, Turkey, on 13 to 16 October 2014. The articles address issues such as the state of the field of documentation, conservation and revitalization of endangered languages with special reference to the endangered languages in the Caucasus region and beyond.
Author(s): Ramazan Korkmaz, Gürkan Doğan
Series: The Languages of Asia 15
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2017
Language: English
Pages: 308
City: Leiden, Boston
Tags: Языки и языкознание;Языки Кавказа;Кавказские языки;Лингвистика
Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Chapter 1 Consequences of Russian Linguistic Hegemony in (Post-)Soviet Colonial Space......Page 10
Chapter 2 The Contacts between the Ossetians and the Karachay-Balkars, According to V. I. Abaev and Marrian Ideology......Page 26
Chapter 3 Why Caucasian Languages?......Page 48
Chapter 4 International Research Collaboration on Documentation and Revitalization of Endangered Turkic Languages in Ukraine: Crimean Tatar, Gagauz, Karaim, Qrymchak and Urum Experience......Page 60
Chapter 5 Cases-Non-cases: At the Margins of the Tsezic Case System......Page 69
Chapter 6 Language Endangerment in the Balkans with Some Comparisons to the Caucasus......Page 88
Chapter 7 Instilling Pride by Raising a Language’s Prestige......Page 100
Chapter 8 Unwritten Minority Languages of Daghestan: Statusand Conservation Issues......Page 107
Chapter 9 Report on the Fieldwork Studies of the Endangered Turkic Languages......Page 117
Chapter 10 Empire, Lingua Franca, Vernacular: The Rootsof Endangerment......Page 131
Chapter 11 Endangered Turkic Languages from China......Page 144
Chapter 12 The Death of a Language: The Case of Ubykh......Page 160
Chapter 13 Diversity in Dukhan Reindeer Terminology1......Page 175
Chapter 14 How Much Udi is Udi?......Page 196
Chapter 15 Language Contact in Anatolia: The Case of Sason Arabic......Page 218
Chapter 16 Language and Emergent Literacy in Svaneti......Page 235
Chapter 17 The Internet as a Tool for Language Development and Maintenance? The Case of Megrelian......Page 253
Chapter 18 Linguistic Topography and Language Survival......Page 267
Chapter 19 And So Flows History......Page 284
Index......Page 298
