The Turkic languages – a group of closely related languages that form a family within the Altaic language group – unite nations spread across three continents, according to the head of the ...

The National University of Modern Languages organised an event to commemorate UNESCO Turkic Languages Day and the Shabe Arooz of Maulana Rumi. The unique celebration highlighted the rich cultural and ...

Central Asia’s Turkic majorities will play a crucial role in the success of China’s One Belt, One Road. Turkic peoples — including Turks, Azerbaijanis, Kazakhs, Uzbeks, Kyrgyzs, and Uyghurs — make up ...

Kazakhstan’s planned transition to the Latin alphabet raises complex questions. While alphabets may not be important in and of themselves, they play an important role in helping define a nation’s ...

Vol. 59, No. 1-2, Migration and Nation-Building in Central and Western Asia: Turkic Peoples and Their Neighbours (I) (2016), pp. 1-42 (42 pages) The migratory history of the Turkic-speaking peoples ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Central Asiatic Journal has been published since 1955, focusing on the linguistic, cultural and historical heritage of Central ...

A statistical technique that sorts out when changes to words’ pronunciations most likely occurred in the evolution of a language offers a renewed opportunity to trace words and languages back to their ...

Interview conducted by Aneta Pavlenko. Our guest today is William Fierman, an Emeritus Professor of Central Eurasian Studies at the University of Indiana in Bloomington and an expert on language ...