Endangered Languages of the Caucasus and Beyond

Prof. Dr. Ramazan Korkmaz, Ph.D. (1991), Ardahan University, is Professor of Turkish Language and Literature at that university. He has extensive knowledge, skills and experience in the fields of Turkish, Caucasus and Central Asian Turkish literatures, languages and folk lives. He has published many articles and books on different aspects of modern Turkish language and literature, including The Shortest Story as a New Genre in Turkish Literature (Grafiker Publications, 2011).Prof. Dr. Gürkan Doğan, Ph.D. (1992), Ardahan University, is Professor of Linguistics at that university. He has published many articles on the pragmatic aspects of literary language and collected most of them in Utterance Interpretation Processes (Kesit Publications, 2015). He also published four books of poetry, including Veranda (Gelişim Sanat Publications, 2015).Contributors are:Gregory D.S. Anderson, Johnny Cheung, Bernard Comrie, Iryna M. Dryga, Diana Forker, Victor A. Friedman, George Hewitt, Madzhid Khalilov, Zaynab Alieva, Yong-Sŏng Li, Nicholas Ostler, Mehmet Ölmez, A. Sumru Özsoy, Elisabetta Ragagnin, Wolfgang Schulze, Eser Erguvanlı Taylan, Kevin Tuite, Karina Vamling, George van Driem, Alexander Vovin.

• PrefaceChapters:1. Consequences of Russian Linguistic Hegemony in (Post-)Soviet Colonial Space - by Gregory S. Anderson.2. The Contacts between the Ossetians and the Karachay-Balkars, According to V.I. Abaev and Marrian Ideology - by Johnny Cheung.3. Why Caucasian languages? - By Bernard Comrie.4. Internationak Research Collaboration on Documentation and Revitalization of Endangered Turkic Languages in the Ukraine: Crimean Tatar, Gagauz, Karaim, Qrymchack and Urum Experience - by İryna M. Dryga.5. Cases-Non-cases: At the Margins of the Tsezic Case System - by Diana Forker.6. Language Edangerment in the Balkans with Some Comparisons to the Caucasus - by Victor A. Friedman.7. Instilling Pride by Raising a Language's Prestige - by George Hewitt8. Unwritten Minority Languages of the Daghestan: Status and Conservation Issues - by Zaynab Alieva and Mazhid Khalikov9. Report on the Fieldwork Studies of the Endagered Turkic Languages - by Yong-Sŏng Li10. Empire, Lingua Franca, Vernacular: The Roots of Endangerment - by Nicholas Ostler11. Endangered Turkic Languages from China - by Mehmet Ölmez12. The Death of a Language: the Case of Ubykh - by A. Sumru Öszoy13. Diversity in the Dukhan Reindeer Terminology - by Elisabetta Ragagnin14. How Much Udi is Udi? - by Wolfgang Schulze15. Language Contact in Anatolia: The Case of Sason Arabic - by Eser Erguvanli Taylan16. Language and Emergent Literacy in Svaneti - by Kevin Tuite17. The Internet as a Tool for Language Development and Maintenance? The Case of Megrelian - by Karina Vamling18. Linguistic Topography and Language Survival - George van Driem19. And So Flows History - by Alexander VovinIndex