Turkic Languages - Science topic

The article examines somatic terminology in the Bashkir language and its dialects. The purpose of the study is to identify the main meanings of somatic vocabulary in the modern Bashkir language in comparison with the data of Turkic languages. The object of study is the lexical material of the Bashkir language. The subject of the study is somatisms...

The work of Mahmut Kashgari «Divani lugat it-turk», which is the first historical and comparative dictionary of the Turkic languages, based on its rich linguistic dictionary is the most important source for the study of ancient Turkic written monuments and modern Turkic languages. In this book, Mahmud Kashgari, in addition to conveying the main gra...

Since hyman cognition of the environment is based on the peculiarities of their perception of natural phenomena, meteorological vovabulary in the language belongs to the most ancient lexical layer. Meteonyms possess deep ethnocultural content and are often a component of proverbs. Meteonyms in proverbs, which provide a lot of information about the...

Қазіргі антропологияның өзекті мәселелерінің бірі – этникалық идентификацияның жоғалуы және аз ұлт тілдерінің жойылуы. Осының аясында алып қарағанда, мақалада омнимдер, атап айтқанда, жойылып бара жатқан хотон тілінің антропонимдері зерттеледі. Тарихи тұрғыдан хотон тілі – түркі тілдерінің қарлұқ тобының қарлұқ-ұйғыр кіші тобына жататын ұйғыр тілін...

The article analyzes the activities and worldview of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi, the founder of the Sufi Turkic branch of Islam. Written testimonies are given about the identity and activities of H. A. Yassawi, who characterizes him as one of the founders of Turkic culture. Based on the analysis of his work «Diwani Hikmet», his work as the founder of Sufis...

The aim of the research is to describe the semantic features of the names of actors in the wedding ceremony in the Yakut language. The article analyzes the names of participants in the wedding ceremony: those entering into marriage, relatives of the bride and groom, matchmakers, and persons performing and participating in the rituals. The scientifi...

Uzbek (ISO 639-1: uz) is a Turkic language spoken mainly in Uzbekistan, where the language is accorded the ‘state language’ status (Figure 1). Outside Uzbekistan, ethnic Uzbek populations are scattered across and beyond Central Asia in such countries as Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, China, and Saudi Arabia (Balcı, 2004; Yakup, 20...

This article delves into the intricate world of lexical units related to folk medicine within the Uzbek language, conducting a comprehensive comparative-historical analysis. It explores the multifaceted origins of these terms, tracing them back to Proto-Turkic, Persian, Arabic, and other influences. The study meticulously examines semantic shifts a...

This volume is based on a selection of papers presented at the Second Conference on the Endangered Languages of East Asia (CELEA2), hosted by the Department of Asian and North African Studies at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice on 3-5 May 2022. In each chapter, the authors discuss the topic of ‘time’ in relation to different aspects of a number of...

A Collaborative Effort in Linguistic Discovery Abstract I am sharing this paper about my mother language, Azerbaijani, which has not been fully developed due to the influence of Persian and Russian authorities. The paper came to life through a collaboration with AI, as I sought answers to things I did not know about my language, having never receiv...

Being able to thoroughly assess massive multi-task language understanding (MMLU) capabilities is essential for advancing the applicability of multilingual language models. However, preparing such benchmarks in high quality native language is often costly and therefore limits the representativeness of evaluation datasets. While recent efforts focuse...

This study explores the anthropogenic system of the contemporary Karakalpak language, focusing on personal names and surnames. Through a comprehensive analysis spanning from historical-linguistic to statistical and sociolinguistic assessments, it examines the evolution and structural dynamics of Karakalpak anthroponymy. Drawing on a wide range of s...

Bilingual students that speak Russian and one of the Turkic languages study at many Russian medical universities. The objective of this research is to show the experience of educational activities organized for the improvement of studying English by the bilingual students. For example, the speakers of Kumyk language join the students’ scientific so...

z: 18. yüzyıldan itibaren üzerinde çalışılmaya başlanan ve günümüzde sayısı 250'ye ulaşan Yenisey mezar taşları, Türk dilinin eski yazılı metinleri olarak Türk dil ve kültür tarihi araştırmaları içinde önemli bir yer tutmaktadır. Metinlerin kağanlık yazıtlarına kıyasla daha yıpranmış ve harflerin Kağanlık Yazıtlarından yer yer farklı formlarda yazı...

The purpose of the study was to investigate the linguistic and literary components within the framework of the cultural diversity of Central Asian peoples of the Turkic ethnic group. The study analysed the linguistic features of the Turkic languages and their mutual influence through literary texts and oral traditions, with an emphasis on the proce...

The article presents the results of a series of surveys conducted by scientists and staff of the Altai State University in April-May 2024. The surveys were devoted to the study of the historical and cultural heritage of the Kazakh population in the Altai Territory and the Altai Republic. The obtained data on symbolic events characteristic of the cu...

Abstract. Mahmud Kashgari occupies a special place in the history and development of the Uzbek language. With a careful study of the work "Devonu lugotit Türk", which contains very valuable information about phonetics, grammar and vocabulary of the Turkic languages, we can follow the path of the historical development of our language, rediscove...

As a rule, among the non-degradable forms of the verb, adjectives and verbs are predominant. A verbal adjective has the basic characteristics of a verb and an adjective. The verb binding has the main signs of the verb and the adverb. Most of the suffixes related to the verb adjective and verb binding were used in the ancient Turkish language. Few o...

摘要: 专论话题标记来源的相关研究中，尚未有文献提到话题标记可能来 自条件结构。尽管学界接受 Haiman (1978) "条件就是话题"的主张， 但有学者进一步陈明："话题不是条件" (Shin 1987)。本文考察嘉 戎语口语材料，论证嘉戎语话题标记=mənaŋorə 的来源为动词条件结 构 mə-na-ŋôs=rə [COND-PFV-COP=TOP]。笔者认为卓克基话的条件 句之所以能发展成话题，主要因素有三。第一，条件动词的主要词 干是不具语义的系词；第二，条件小句一如嘉戎语大多数小句，是 动词置于句末；第三，条件小句与主要小句的相对位置不具对调的 弹性。条件标记赋予了系词标示"已知"、"预设"信息的功能， 系词条件小句在信息属性和补语与动词相对位置两方面，都与带话 题标记的名词短...

This article analyzes the semantics of izafet constructions in the "Gulistan bit Turki" monument. The research focuses on studying the syntactic structures of Turkic written monuments, particularly izafet constructions, to gain a deeper understanding of the semantic aspects of the syntactic system of Turkic languages of that period. Izafet construc...

Since hyman cognition of the environment is based on the peculiarities of their perception of natural phenomena, meteorological vovabulary in the language belongs to the most ancient lexical layer. Meteonyms possess deep ethnocultural content and are often a component of proverbs. Meteonyms in proverbs, which provide a lot of information about the...

The article examines the features of phonetic, morphological, semantic development and changes of some words found in the Turkic languages. When studying the basic vocabulary of the Turkic languages, various phonetic patterns and phenomena are important. The patterns revealed in science in recent years attest to this. The article focuses on the fac...

This article analyzes the semantics of izafet constructions in the "Gulistan bit Turki" monument. The research focuses on studying the syntactic structures of Turkic written monuments, particularly izafet constructions, to gain a deeper understanding of the semantic aspects of the syntactic system of Turkic languages of that period. Izafet construc...

Research shows that significant work has been done on identifying loanwords in literary language. However, loanwords at the dialect level, especially in comparison with other Turkic languages, are underexplored in Turkology. Studying this can provide insights into how loanwords interact with other languages and how they manifest across Turkic diale...

The study of the lexical layer of historical works and poems in the linguistic aspect plays an important role in determining the history of the formation and development of a language. Taking into account this significance, the work of Abulgazy Bahadur Khan “Shezhire-i terakime”, written in the 17th century, was considered as the object of study. D...

The study of the lexical layer of historical works and poems in the linguistic aspect plays an important role in determining the history of the formation and development of a language. Taking into account this significance, the work of Abulgazy Bahadur Khan “Shezhire-i terakime”, written in the 17th century, was considered as the object of study. D...

The article examines the features of phonetic, morphological, semantic development and changes of some words found in the Turkic languages. When studying the basic vocabulary of the Turkic languages, various phonetic patterns and phenomena are important. The patterns revealed in science in recent years attest to this. The article focuses on the fac...

The global equivalence of speech and cultures plays a crucial role in typological linguistics and cross-cultural communication, forming the basis for studying numeral phraseological units from linguistic perspectives. This study analyses numeral idioms within Kazakh and English phraseological units, utilizing generalization, descriptive, and compar...

This chapter offers a brief overview of the word order typology of Neo-Aramaic dialects spoken by Jewish and Christian minorities of Iran and northeastern Iraq. A characteristic of the dialects in this region is the contact-induced shift from VO to OV word order under the influence of neighbouring Iranian and Turkic languages. In Iranian Azerbaijan...

This paper deals with converb clauses in Uralic and Turkic languages. These clauses are often defined in the typological literature as featuring a special non-finite verb type. The Uralic and Turkic data show, however, that many of the alleged converbs are in fact morphologically decomposable into a non-finite verb (nominalization, participle, etc....

This paper considers dislocated topics in living West Caucasian (Abkhaz-Adyghe) languages, i. e. in West Circassian, Kabardian, Abkhaz, and Abaza. Despite the fact that previous studies on morphosyntactic properties of the representatives of this language family denied the existence of dedicated topic constructions in any of them, the results of th...

The ancient city of Gaochang, also known as Dakianus, the name of latter is often seen in the travel notes or archaeological reports of Western explorers in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. When examining the origin of this name, it can be seen that it does not come from ancient Turkic language, but from the Christian myth of the Seven Sleep...

History and development of the Azerbaijani language Summary The article examines the history, development and current status of the Azerbaijani language. The Azerbaijani language is the official state language of the Republic of Azerbaijan. The Azerbaijani language belongs to the Turkic languages by genealogical branch. It is included in the southw...

Since the seminal work by David Dowty, much inspired by the earlier ideas of Generative Semantics, a number of proposals have been developed accounting for the internal constitution and interpretation of accomplishment event predicates like ‘open the door’ or ‘break the window’. Current theories of accomplishment event structure vary along a number...

Vasily Georgievich Egorov stands out as a Turkologist and pedagogue known for his work on the language and literature of the Chuvash people, a Turkic ethnic group predominantly residing in Russia. Egorov was born in 1880 in the village of Entri-Pasar, located in the Kozlovskiy district of Chuvashia, and graduated from the Simbirsk Chuvash Teachers’...

Research about Turkic languages in different Turkic communities has recently started gaining a more objective and sensitive nature in terms of aspect and approach. Attention to endangered languages increased after the 1990s in particular, with research beginning after this time, albeit unsystematically. Certain measures are being taken to protect t...

COMMON LINGUISTIC MEMORY OF TURKIC-SPEAKING PEOPLE Zabita Teymurlu Baku Engineering University, Department of Azerbaijani Language and Pedagogy SUMMARY Research shows that significant work has been done on identifying loanwords in literary language. However, loanwords at the dialect level, especially in comparison with other Turkic languages, are...

The recent years have witnessed the publication of new lexical data from Middle Chulym, one of the still underresearched and poorly described Turkic languages of Siberia. Among these materials is the 2019 translation of the Gospel according to St Mark. Its publication has provided researchers with an extensive text that can serve as a foundation fo...

The purpose of the study is to identify in the lexical system of the modern Khakass language the linguistic category of enantiosemy as one of the types of semantic development of meanings in the structure of the same lexeme. Using the example of multivalued verbal vocabulary, the article shows the frequency of use and formation of opposite intraver...

Annotation: There are many words among the related languages which are used in similarly and have the same meaning. However, we can see that homonymous words among the related languages have different meanings or the same meaning convey with completely different words. The analysis of differences and similarities between ornithonyms in the Oghuz gr...

Large language models (LLMs) have excelled in numerous benchmarks, advancing AI applications in both linguistic and non-linguistic tasks. However, this has primarily benefited well-resourced languages, leaving less-resourced ones (LRLs) at a disadvantage. In this paper, we highlight the current state of the NLP field in the specific LRL: kyrgyz til...

Introduction. The article is devoted to the study of the origin and spread of the ethnonym Boroγon (in Russian spelling — Borogon), reflected in the names of administrative territorial units of various taxonomic levels in the territory of Yakutia during the 17th–20th centuries (ulus, nasleg, rod). Goals. The study aims at examining the etymology of...

This thesis explores the linguistic and cultural connections between the Sumerian and Turkic languages, focusing on their role in shaping scientific, legal, and cultural norms. It introduces the concept of imology, based on the Sumerian word IM 򅎠meaning 'clay' and extending to 'sign' as the most important determinative peculiar to the ancient ages...

Northeastern dialects of Neo-Aramaic (NENA) have a long history in northern Mesopotamia. Vernaculars of NENA have been in contact with Iranian, Semitic, Armenian, and Turkic languages. Kurdish has often been assumed to be the language that has had the most crucial influence on the morphosyntax of NENA dialects. This paper shows the impact of Gorani...

Prototypical word order in world languages refers to the ontological side of this syntactic phenomenon. It is fixed and unchanging. The word order exists as a representation of various connection forms between language elements within the syntactic structure. In the context of the prototypical word order, deviating from them and moving in a new dir...

The article explores a scientific and theoretical point of view and analyzes an attempt to determine the structural and lexical-semantic properties of stable comparisons in related Turkic languages.

This article examines the linguistic and historical-philosophical justification of the possessive thinking of the ancient Turks and the category of possessiveness in Turkic languages, formed by a synthetic morphological method, i.e., using possessive affixes. These affixes are genetically identical with the common Turkic means of derivation, distin...

The traditions of comparative study of Turkic languages, creation of dictionaries, and teaching the Kipchak language to representatives of other nationalities constitute one epoch in the land of the Mamluks. Monuments belonging to this era have different purposes and contents. The article analyzes the lexical specificity of the nominal words on the...

The research aims to explore the etymology and semantic field of the zoonym “cow” in the linguocultural contexts of the Indo-European, Uralic and Altaic language families. The article analyzes the origin of the word “cow” in Slavic, Turkic, Romance and Germanic languages, identifying its core and additional meanings, commonalities and specific feat...

The article discusses the issue of compiling large grammatical works, including academic grammars. In particular, answers are sought for such questions as the following: What is the scientific character (style) of compiling fundamental grammatical works? What should their scientific apparatus, their design and structure look like? What research met...

Introduction. Insha Allah Khan Insha was a key author of Urdu literature at the turn of the nineteenth centuries. His works were multilingual, and the languages he used comprised a local version of literary Turki. Nowadays there is only one surviving manuscript of the poet’s largest Turkic-language work ― The Turki-Language Diary ― housed at the Ra...

In each society, individuals are designated by specific appellations that are accepted within that society. In contemporary social contexts, these names are typically classified into three categories, each serving a distinct purpose: personal names, patronymics, and surnames. The concept of the surname has undergone a highly complex process of deve...

В статье произведена оценка глоттохронологическим методом времен разделения 15 современных тюркских языков, а также оценка возможной степени заимствования отделявшимися языками слов иного языка в составе списка базисной лексики. Метод построения генеалогических дерев (дендрограмм) на основе полной лингвостатистической матрицы с коэффициентами совпа...

This paper investigates the issue of translating genderisms from Uzbek into English. It investigates and compares the approaches taken by both native and foreign translators to address this issue through a case study based on Uzbek author Abdulhamid Sulaymon o’g’li Cho’lpon’s unfinished dilogy, Night and Day. Originally written between 1933 and 193...

This paper explores the colexification of “thunder” and “dragon” in languages spoken in the Qinghai-Tibetan region. A sample of 372 languages from Sino-Tibetan, Dravidian, Indo-European, Mongolic-Khitan, Tungusic, and Turkic was collected. These languages were classified into colexifying and dislexifying languages, depending on whether the two conc...

Abstract Another urgent issue of applied linguistics is to create a linguistic filter for semantically distinguishing polyfunctional words, and for the field of computer linguistics, it is an urgent issue to develop mathematical models and algorithms for semantically distinguishing them, as well as an information system. This article discusses the...

The article describes the TurkLang model of the linguistic knowledge graph for Turkic languages, which underpins software products for processing these languages. The model’s core elements are morphemes, the smallest meaningful units of language. It captures the properties of morphemes across morphonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic...

Special names constitute a subsystem within the lexical system of the language. In this subsystem, the language laws are modified in a particular manner. When transitioning from one context to another, regularities emerge that are not observed in other domains. As a family name, a word may begin a life that is not connected to the word from which i...

In modern Azerbaijani and Turkish, the participle is a particular verb form. This form differs from the conjugated forms of the verb and other non-conjugated particular forms (gerunds and infinitives) regarding its lexical-semantic features, morphological characteristics, and syntactic functions. In both languages, participles precede nouns and sub...

This paper investigates a verbal category called “assistive” in two closely related Turkic languages, Kyrgyz and Kazakh, which appears to have a helping-like interpretation. The assistive construction includes a dative-marked Agent argument, which is not to be introduced by one of the commonly known noncore-argument-introducing heads, Cause, Applic...

While there is no direct evidence of epic singers in the Hungarian Conquest period, their presence and activity can nevertheless be posited on the strength of indirect evidence. Epic songs in Hungarian are known from the later fifteenth century, while the chronicles mention certain epic songs from the late twelfth century. Some of these epic songs...

During the development of the Tatar literary language some traditional forms, that are characteristic of the Old Tatar literary language had been lost, but they were preserved in sub-dialects and are considered as dialect phenomena. The purpose of the study is to identify features that were characteristic of the Old Tatar literary language and were...

The main goal of the article is to reveal the importance of preserving the use of native Turkic-speaking languages that are endangered such as Crimean Tatars, Tuvan, Balkars, Kumyks, Karachay, Nogai, Gagauz, Sakha and Khakass in Kazakhstan to pass the linguistic practices to the future generation before these ethnic groups disappear. The war times,...

This article examines the use of the analytical form -p bar- as a means to express aspectual meanings and the conditions for its use. In the Old Uyghur language, which is considered one of the early stages of development of Turkic languages, morphological means are used to clarify the nature of actions. One of these means is the analytical form -p...

This paper introduces a pioneering English-Azerbaijani (Arabic Script) parallel corpus, designed to bridge the technological gap in language learning and machine translation (MT) for under-resourced languages. Consisting of 548,000 parallel sentences and approximately 9 million words per language, this dataset is derived from diverse sources such a...

This paper investigates the burgeoning field of Turkic language education in South Korea, highlighting its historical context, current landscape, and future prospects. As globalization and South Korea’s engagement with resource-rich Central Asia intensify, the significance of Turkic languages in fostering cultural understanding and promoting multic...

The article examines the division of static comparisons into several lexical-thematic groups in Turkic languages, including Karakalpak, based on meanings and senses.

An important place on the path of the revival of the deeply rooted Turkic civilization is occupied by the study of written monuments representing the history, language, literature, culture, way of life, mythological religious beliefs and material values of the Turkic peoples. Among the topical issues is the comprehensive differentiation of the lang...

Turks value their daughters and take care to give them the most beautiful name. For this reason, they tried to give them names related to the names of valuable items. Especially among Kazakh girls, we often see names related to the most precious stones, precious metals, rare types of fabric or silk, expensive leather Decals. For example, Kazakh wom...

In many grammatical works on the Turkish language, the affixes referred to as "diminutive suffixes" perform various functions beyond simply reducing the size of an object. The aim of this research article is to analyze the semantics of these forms, referred to as "diminutives" in functional grammar. Turkish linguists identify the affixes -CA, -Cık,...

Relevance. Since phonological changes at the junction of morphemes, in particular in the consonantism system, have not been sufficiently studied. The formation of an idea of synharmonic processes is relevant in modern linguistic science. Purpose. The research purpose was to study the sound parameters, phonological features and synharmonism on the e...

The roots of onomastic units in Turkic languages are closely connected with the history of ancient times, the origin of Turkic peoples and their language. Onomastic research helps to determine the former settlements of different peoples, language and cultural relations, the older state of languages, the relationship of languages with dialects. Prof...

Relevance. The relevance of the subject matter is related to the growing interest in the study of Turkic languages among the English-speaking audience, due to globalisation and the expansion of cultural and economic ties. This requires the development of new approaches to teaching, considering linguistic characteristics. Purpose. The purpose of the...

To obtain a reliable and accurate automatic speech recognition (ASR) machine learning model, it is necessary to have sufficient audio data transcribed, for training. Many languages in the world, especially the agglutinative languages of the Turkic family, suffer from a lack of this type of data. Many studies have been conducted in order to obtain b...

As auxiliary elements are added to the end of words according to the structure Turkic languages, postpositions are very common here. Postpositions give a rich view with both the meanings they form and the words they are used together. The postposition üčün which is one of the most common postpositions in Old Turkic expresses the meaning of reason a...

The Azerbaijani language, one of the richest languages in the world, holds a unique place among Turkic languages. Azerbaijani belongs to the Oghuz group of Turkic languages, including Turkish, Gagauz, and Turkmen. However, Turkish is the closest language to ours in terms of both literary and everyday vocabulary. The research aims to deepen our unde...

In this article, the history of the formation and development of the languages of peoples of Turkic descent develops in close connection with the history of the people who speak that language, and about the work «Diwani Lugat-at-Turk», which is a dictionary and encyclopedic heritage of the scholar M. Kashkari, who was the first to study Turkic lang...

BACKGROUND: Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is a condition commonly associated with dementia. Therefore, early prediction of progression from MCI to dementia is essential for preventing or alleviating cognitive decline. Given that dementia affects cognitive functions like language and speech, detecting disease progression through speech analysis ca...

The relevance of the problem of automatic speech recognition lies in the lack of research for low-resource languages, stemming from limited training data and the necessity for new technologies to enhance efficiency and performance. The purpose of this work was to study the main aspects of integrated end-to-end speech recognition and the use of mode...

The problem of translating cultural references has been one of the most critical aspects of translation studies in recent years. Due to the complexity and diversity of nations, several issues including cognitive dissonance, misinterpretation of customs and traditions, loss of national color, and omission of national connotations can arise during th...

The problem of translating cultural references has been one of the most critical aspects of translation studies in recent years. Due to the complexity and diversity of nations, several issues including cognitive dissonance, misinterpretation of customs and traditions, loss of national color, and omission of national connotations can arise during th...

Xavier Rouard searches and researches the linguistic world, scientific research of course, for the origin, the cradle, the homeland, or the motherland, of Indo-European. He is not the only one in the world, but he goes against practically all the others by positioning this linguistic nursery in Central Asia based on a Eurasian or trans-Eurasian lan...

In the urban centers of Türkiye, where cultural changes are more widespread and effective, wedding processional is replaced by the solemnization of the marriage at indoor weddings, and the Kūdegū (old Turkic language; refers to bridegroom, son-in-law) awaiting the bride’s arrival at the boy’s house is replaced by differences in the way of the bride...

This paper interrogates the structure of language units in rootword niches of the Kipchak group of Turkic languages and, for this purpose, tackles several facts. Generally, scholars have not properly settled the initial structure of the root morphemes in Turkic languages, making it one of the most controversial issues in related literature. Linguis...

The Kyrgyz are one of the Turkic peoples that have had extensive contact with Mongolian tribes throughout history, and their language has one of the largest numbers of loanwords of Mongolian origin. Careful analysis shows that these words were borrowed from several historical Mongolian idioms at various times. Western Mongolian loanwords make up th...

In many linguistic studies, many studies have been conducted on the work “Hilyetü’l-insan” and “Halbetü’l-lisan”, which was mentioned as Ibn Muhanna’s Dictionary, whose real name was revealed when the Istanbul copy was found, and which belongs to Jamaladdin Ibn Muhanna. In the middle of the century, the Persian, Turkic and Mongolian languages gaine...

The study examines the issue of creating a common Turkic alphabet through the prism of Turkey’s interests in its attempts to form a new identity for the Turkic states. It is noted that the collapse of the Soviet Union and the formation of five new Turkic states were positively received in Turkey and gave impetus to the activation of pan-Turkic idea...

Thus far, four – structurally very different – etymologies have been suggested for the Turkic word for ‘garlic’. This author adduces derivatives found in Altai, one of the Siberian Turkic languages, that provide crucial support for one of them.

The linguistic study of the problem of contact between peoples is interesting task of contemporary areal linguistics. The problem of areal contact of peoples has recently become the subject of special study of linguists. In the past, mutual influences between languages were mainly limited to external borrowings that did not affect the essence of la...

In this paper, the shared vocabulary of the Ugric languages (Hungarian and the Ob-Ugric languages Khanty and Mansi) is discussed. Words that have been considered loanwords from Iranian or Turkic languages into Proto-Ugric, the intermediary proto-language of Hungarian and Ob-Ugric in traditional models of Uralic taxonomy, are analyzed critically, an...

The study of Russian-Turkic language contacts remains one of the most important tasks of modern linguistics. Historical lexicology of Slavic languages studies the causes, time and ways of penetration and adaptation of Türkisms in the Russian language. In addition, this work touches upon the contacts of languages of different structures, to which th...

The Renaissance, an era of artistic, cultural, scientific, literary renewal, etc., is extensively studied in history and literature courses in the West. The Timurid Renaissance, which took place in present-day Uzbekistan in the 16th century AD, shone brightly in architectural, linguistic, poetic, cultural, and scientific aspects. The precious Renai...

The article considers the claims of Western academics like Frayling (1992) that the literary vampire began with Polidori’s The Vampyre (1819). Crawford (2016) identifies a German literary vampire tradition existing one hundred years before Polidori, yet that work has strengthened Eurocentric claims concerning the literary vampire by academics like...

This paper explores the theoretical foundations of the ambiguity category in English and Uzbek languages. Ambiguity, the presence of multiple possible interpretations or meanings within a given linguistic context, poses challenges for language users in understanding and communicating effectively. By studying the theoretical aspects of ambiguity, we...

This paper presents a parallel corpus of raw texts between the Uzbek and Kazakh languages as a dataset for machine translation applications, focusing on the data collection process, dataset description, and its potential for reuse. The dataset-building process includes three separate stages, starting with a tiny portion of already available paralle...

We show that already in the very first examples of Slavic vocabulary that has come down to us in the 6th–8th centuries. (Slavic onomastics in Byzantine sources, Slavic toponymy in Greece, Slavisms in the Romanian language) there is a fairly large layer of terms with nasal vowels. This quite convincingly suggests that the phonetic phenomenon under d...

This paper argues based on data from Uyghur (Turkic) that clausal complementation structures involving a special form of the verb ‘say’ are actually adjunct clauses headed by the verb ‘say’ that merge at two heights: VP or TP. I demonstrate that properties unique to ‘say’ as a main verb extend to ‘say’ in these adjunct clauses. Accusative subjects...

z Altay Türkleri, Güney Sibirya bölgesinde yaşayan Türk topluluklarından biridir. Dil özelliği bakımından Güney Sibirya Türk lehçeleriyle ortak yanlarının bulunmasının yanında Kırgız Türkçesiyle de çok benzerlik göstermektedir. Özellikle fonetik yönden Kırgız Türkçesine yakınlaşmaktadır. Güney Sibirya Türk lehçele-rinden Hakas Türkçesinde, Tuva Tür...