Would Turkish become common language for Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan by 2010? janvier 14, 2008
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AKIpress (Kirghizstan)
11 January 2008
Turkic speaking nations would use Turkish language as a common language. One common language is important for expansion of ties and cooperation betwen Turkic speaking nations. Turkish language is used by Turkic speaking nations for 10 years. Transformation of the Turkish language into a common language of the Turkic speaking nations would be completed within the upcoming 10 years,” Chair of Parliamentary Committee for Culture Affairs of Azerbaijan Nizami Jafarov told Trend agency.
There are 6 independent Turkic countries in the world. This is Azerbaijan, Turkey, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan. The attendees of the 11th Congress of Turkic Speaking Nations held in Baku in 2007 adopted the recommendations to create a common Turkic language.
Jafarov stressed the Turkish language should be used in a form which would provide for big opportunities of communication between the Turkic speaking peoples. “The Turkish language will become one common language for a big group of people. This process is ongoing now quite naturally, however, it is necessary to expedite it,” said Jafarov.
According to Jafarov, the use of Turkish by the Turkic speaking nations would not lead to disappearance of Azerbaijani, Turkmen, Uzbek, Kyrgyz and Kazakh languages.
“These languages would be used as state, written and literary languages of the Turkic republics,” said the Chair of the Parliamentary Commission for Culture Affairs.
Jafarov assumed the process of creation of a common alphabet of independent Turkic nations would complete by 2010 ãîäó. This would be Latin alphabet, which would be conducive for creation of a common Turkic language.
Azerbaijan, Turkey, Uzbekistan use Latin. Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan mull over switch to Latin alphabet. “This process would be completed by 2010 the latest,” said Jafarov.
Hello turkic speaking brothers,
The Modern Turkish Lanuage couldn’t be a common language for all six different independent turkic-speaking countries. I wouldn’t say that people and especially linguistic scientists of the Central Asian republic agree to accept today’s modern Turkish. Because it is not more back Old Turkic language which was brought by the Salchuqids from the Qipchoq Steppes to the Byzantine Empire territory. It became completely different and modified far away. Especially Kazakhs and Kyrgyzs languages are very far from modern Turkish. Th eTurkish language is itself on eof the languages of the Turkic language family. As for Azeri (especilly Iranian Ozari), it is more Turkish and/or Turkic than today’s Turkish language in Turkey. Today population in Turkey are anthropologicly more Europoid (caucasoid) race rather than of Mongoloid race like population of all Central Asian Turkic speaking contries. Even, many Turks has whiter skins than Greeks (europeans by the way).
Hi to all the readers,
`In my opinion, why should the Turkish language have to be utilized by Central Asian countries? Some may say, all Turkic brothers and sisters must unify. But to me, it seems that Central Asians have to give up THEIR native language and culture in order to speak Turkish.
I am Kazakh and I am very much proud of my kazakh language and
culture. The reason why I say this, is because I’ve seen many kazakhs who only spoke turkish and regarded their native tongue in inferior ways. In Kazakhstan, we have enough kazakhs speaking russian as their sole language. That’s enough headache, we don’t need to add turkish to that list.
`Plus, many think that somehow, todays Turkic people have alot in common. Yes, that’s true, but up to certain degree. For instance, kazakhs and kyrgiz are very oriental looking, tadjiks are persian looking, while turkish people look more european than any other
turic group.
I’m from Cyprus, and I am Turkish. You are wrong! Not all Turks of Turkey are European-looking. I have ten brothers and Sisters of the same parents. Three of my Brothers have green eyes and blonde hair, 4 of my sisters including me, have oriental features, and I am not white either. If I was in Kazakhistan walking around the place you would not been able to tell the difference, as the same with all my family, and your language is like TURKISH anyway, because I can understand it!
For one, I think you are beautiful people, I would not change you at all
i wanted to mention that ,having a unified language would be great idea to increase the ties among turkic speaking countries , and it does not mean that native tounges should be disappeared ,it can make us more powerful and effective in world policy also , but unfortunately some of central asian turkic countries have been Russianised alot during soviet union ,for example some time ago i had a trip to azerbaijan and i saw poeple prefer to speak Russian along side all harms to these poeple from Russia.
look at English speaking countries or French speakings or also Arab league conutires,they all have a unified language but diffeerent in dialect.which makes them to be able to act together in world policy and use each other’s improvments to grow together .
yes its true what enver pasha said muslim and turkic peole r more united then others abd we must compare ourselfes with anglo-saxons in history like usa uk etc.
turkification is a linguistic imperialism. let central asian people speak their language. it sounds as neo-latin languages( spanish, portugues, italian,spanish,and so on) were “represented” by only one of them in international arena. Spanish speaking people wouldn’t accept to be “represented” by Italian or French in international events,and so on.
u seem to dividing the pan turkic poele into small tribes which is a big problem in euorpe now.
why not?
we should do it :commun dictonary,same alphabet,more relationship between all the turcic countries.
i wish and hope that we could do it.
The real linguistic imperialism is that to force speaking all the world to the english language .
WELL I dont just understand why Turkish ?
Im Turkmen and i think we could mix our accents together to have a new langueage….
It is possible to take a minor turkic language so that almost all Turkic people have to learn this new standard language – therefor eeveryone feels equal and there should be no resentment.
An example of this approach is Indonesia which is a far greater mixture of peoples of different religions, history but all malay in ethnicity and all formerly under the Dutch.
It is possible. Next where to put the centre or new federal capital or Turan or the Turkic economic community leading to a Turkic union…
There is a lot of work to do…
I personally think that it worths better fot the Turkic countries of ex-USSR to keep to Russian, as this languages offers them better oppportunies than Turkish (because it is widely known in all former Soviet countries, in Eastern Europe and even overseas). Of course, Turkish has a greater proximity, but it is more limited in a practical-oriented way.
Anyway my experience (I am a diplomat) is that all high-placed officials in these countries speak Russian and would really be at a loss to speak Turkish-of-Turkey. So it will definitely take time to implement this reform (if it is not a tongue in cheek proposition).
We have enough of Russian and English to master, let aside Turkish.
Turkic languages are far easier to learn than Russian. There is no gender and the phonetic nature with only very limited irregularities give rise to this.
the history of Russian domination and empire is exactly what Turkic people want to avoid. The fact that it is easier is probably the reason why russophiles want Russian as the lingua franca. NO!
I understand the resentment of choosing Turkey Turkish as the common language. Maybe it can be better if a group of Turkic linguists come together and work towards unifying the Turkic languages, benefiting from all. But, I strongly believe that somehow a convergence in Turkic languages is necessary. The trend in the World as a result of globalization is that some languages are being eliminated. There won’t be many languages in 2100s. Many Turkic languages will get eliminated somehow naturally over time. If we can converge our Turkic languages, Turkish can be one of the very few (maybe less than 10) languages that will make it through the next two centuries.
Some of you do not understand the purpose of this offer. Making Turkish national language in other Turkic countries does not mean you have to give up speaking your own language or culture. It is to make sure we all become one and so strong in the world and respected one day. Remember the Ottoman Empire? Look at Christian nations today. They are so strong and everyone has to obey them even though people do not agree. I love the idea. We have to unite soon. Because the US knows there are scattered Turks all around the world and fear we might unite someday, they try to destroy Turkey (the strongest nation of all Turkic countries). That’s why it is recommended we all speak Turkish instead of making up a new language or something. You guys to be logical and understand the movie here instead of being offended as if Turkey is trying to make you forget who you’re. There are ethnic groups in Turkey today who speak their own language and have their own beauty but what unifies them is how they also speak Turkish and see this land as their own. We have to unite, my Turkic brothers and sisters.
typos (damnit):
You guys HAVE TO* to be logical and understand the MOTIVE* here instead of being offended…
First We have to understand that all high-placed officials in these countries speak Russian, blue blood can speak just in Russian , English etc., and this grup of peaple never like turkish language and turkish culture, becouse they don’t know even her own mather Language!So my conclusion this idea is utopia!!
My idea may sound crazy and far-fetched in a Turkish forum. However if the unity and ease of communication in the region (I mean whole Asia) is the primary goal, then one solution might be to go back to ol’ good days and re-adopt Persian as a lingua franca language. Then you will have not only turkic countries but Persian speaking countries unite. As far as I know standard Persian was the lingua franka not long time ago from India/Pakistan to central asia to Caucasia and Ottomon empire, Kurdistan, Iraq and Persian Gulf states. Unlike Turkish languages’ weakness in this regard, the Persian language exists only in one and only one standard form thanks to innumerous written Persian classic texts and countless world class Persian poems authored by different ethnic groups and in different regions from Ottomon empire, Albania, Caucasia, Kurdistan, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Persian Gulf states, Iran, Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Turkeminstan and Bangeladesh. This vast geographic area with total population between 1.5 – 2.0 billion people.
But again there is no wonder that why all the western powers (especially Russia and English) have been actively against this earth shattering awakening in the last 200 years. They succeded in breaking the cultural closeness of the region by waging war against Persian language , and keeping people from their cultural hertitage by changing their old scriptures.
Hi, I get an impression that some of the Turkish-Turks feel insulted by being associated to other Turkic nations, especially the ones from Central-Asia.
My guess is that the Turkish really want to be part of the European Union and considered European, rather than Asian in anyways.
That’s really sad considering that a lot of Central-Asians have deep roots to the Turkish-Turks…I find that there’s a bit of racism out there in their minds.
The Turkish people from Turkey who have european features are mainly the decendants of Ottoman Slavs. History teaches us that in the Ottoman Empire many Slavic people converted to Islam and became assimilated by the Ottoman culture (Turkified?). Even as early as the 15th century, the majority of the Ottoman army was in fact Slavic-speaking. This is attested in medieval documents like those of Romanian nobles during the Ottoman march against Vlad Tepes in Romania. Also, even during the years of Byzantine Anatolia, the Greek/Byzantine population was mainly focused on urban and coastal areas. The central part of Anatolia that was far from the sea was inhabited by non-Greeks and contained mainly european populations who were there since antiquity. Those people were all assimilated by the Ottomans. There are many really dark Turks who are possibly decendants of Arabic populations. But there are still a lot of Turks (from Turkey) with strong central-Asiatic features like skin, nose and eyes. Anatolia has been a crossroad between three continents so it contains everything.
Hello all,
I want to say that i am a Turkish-American, and i currently study sociology and antropology. In regards to the reason as to why all the Turkic speaking countries should speak Turkey’s Turkish is simple.
Out of all the Tuskic Nations out there the most populated and economically stable is Turkey. I love all my brothers and sisters, a lot in our cultures are the same. We all have the saame past. Here in the states in Brooklyn, i grew up and was best frinds with many Turkmen, Kurds, Albanians, Kosovo Albaninans, Arabs, Azeris, and many more central asian Turks. We are all identified with the same religion, same past, same traditions, and the same goals. This is not imperialism, no one here is asking you to give up your identity; but in retrospect to assume a unified language. To in on simple way become a whole.
Also the Turkish language of Turkey is very well know all over the world due to vast migration of the Turks and the vast conquest of the Ottoman Empire. The Turkish language of Turkey is by far the most spoken Turkic language and the simplest to adopt and learn. This is demonstrated by the Ottoman Turks who adopted modern day Turkish as opposed the Ottoman Turkish. I hope this makes sense in some way. Even now all Turkic languages are dilects of each other.
Such as that of old Italy. We must unify with this language. Evven with one language i am positive that we will have different accents. ie. All the spanish speaking nations.
Saim Bora Erden
Authentic Ottoman roots to Sogut, Bilecik.