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THE CONTESTED LEGACY OF BORROWING: ATTITUDES OF TURKISH SPEAKERS TO ARABIC AND PERSIAN LOANWORDS IN TURKISH
Sociolinguistics. 2023. Vol. 2. No. 14. P. 77–97.
This study aims to investigate Turkish speakers’ attitudes to Arabic and Persian loanwords in Turkish, as opposed to their “pure” Turkish counterparts that were promoted as replacements throughout a purist language reform in the 20th century. Over the years, the percentage of Arabic and Persian loanwordshas gradually decreased, but they still constitute a significant portion of the Turkish vocabulary. Under the hypothesis that deliberate uses of Arabic and Persian loanwords instead of “pure” Turkish equivalents carry distinct identity connotations, a survey-based approach was employed to investigate attitudes toward these loanwords under the current socio-politicalclimate, utilizing a questionnaire consisting of 20 Likert scale items. By exploring the attitudes in relation to age (18-29 / 30-45) and gender (male / female), the findings offer insights into the overall attitudes to Arabic and Persian loanwords across these variables and identify specific aspects of these loanwords that elicit particular attitudes.
Şimşek, Hasan Berkcan, Multilingua 2026 Vol. 45 No. 1 P. 89–121
Public debates on language use often take on moral overtones. Observing how moral concerns permeate these debates has led scholars to interpret them as a rhetorical strategy or as an indicator of a link between morality and language beliefs. Yet, it remains unclear whether such a link truly exists and, if so, in what ways. ...
Added: November 17, 2025
Shamilov R. M., В кн.: Лингвокультурные аспекты глобализационных процессов. Сборник материалов IV международной научно-практической конференции.: М.: Ритм, 2024. С. 156–162.
The paper is aimed at bringing to the attention of the general public the debates which have been going on for more than ten years among the Lezgian intellectuals about linguistic purism with regard to the literary (standard) Lezgian language. It considers certain measures intended to purify the Lezgian language, proposed by the “puristically” inclined ...
Added: February 7, 2025
Şimşek, Hasan Berkcan, Turkish Studies 2025 Vol. 26 No. 3 P. 633–663
Arabic and Persian loanwords in Turkish, once targeted for replacement by ‘pure’ Turkish equivalents during the early 20th-century language reform, have been promoted by the government in recent years. However, public attitudes toward their use remain unclear. Based on 20 semi-structured interviews and a survey (N = 203), this study explores contemporary social meanings associated ...
Added: January 1, 2025
Gusarova E., Восток. Афро-азиатские общества: история и современность 2024 No. 4 P. 147–154
The present research is devoted to a universal history entitled “The Chronicle of John of Nikiu”. The Chronicle was compiled in Egypt in the late 7th century AD by John, Bishop of the city of Nikiu, most probably in Greek. Later it was translated to Arabic and finally, in the very beginning of the 17th century, to ...
Added: November 9, 2024
Zhivlov M., International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics 2023 Vol. 5 No. 2 P. 267–288
The aim of this paper is to reconstruct the Proto-Nivkh accent system and vocalism with the help of loanword analysis and internal reconstruction. It is shown that the place of the Proto-Nivkh accent depended on vowel height and syllable structure. The paper also argues that the unstressed vowel loss, which led to a radical change in Nivkh phonotactics, ...
Added: January 17, 2024
Andrei S. Tulum, Denis Yu. Zubalov, Journal of Siberian Federal University. Series: Humanities & Social Sciences 2022 Vol. 15 No. 11 P. 1552–1572
Over the last 30 years Pridnestrovie, a de facto independent state in the post-Soviet space, has remained one of the few countries in the world where the Russian
language is not only widely used but still enjoys the official status. This article aims to
explain what factors have led to the current state of affairs. First, the ...
Added: September 27, 2022
Kondratyeva E., В кн.: Россия и Корея: взгляд из Сибири – 2021 : тезисы и доклады Международной научно-практической конференции.: Иркутск: Издательство ИГУ, 2021. С. 177–179.
The purpose of this work is to present the results of a systematic study of the loanwords from the Russian language into both versions of the Korean language (so called, North Korean and South Korean). For this report we went through the most complete North and South Korean dictionaries, found all recorded loanwords in them ...
Added: October 31, 2021
Gruntov, Ilˈja, , in: Encyclopedia of Slavic Languages and Linguistics Online.: Brill, 2020.
Encylopedic article about language contacts between Mongolic and Slavic languages since pre-13th century and up to modern times. ...
Added: October 15, 2020
Dybo A., Фәнни Татарстан 2019 No. 4 P. 7–21
The article provides an overview of what is known about linguistic phenomena due to contacts between Slavic and Turkic languages. The hypothesis of Turkic contacts of the Pre-Slavic language is disputed; some new data are given regarding the oldest Turkic-Slavic contacts; as well as an outline of the structural consequences of such contacts. ...
Added: December 1, 2019
Baranova V. V., Федорова К. С., Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. Труды института лингвистических исследований 2018 Т. XIV № 3 С. 38–56
The article deals with issues of language attitudes towards ethnic minorities’ languages in modern Russian megalopolises in three aspects: language policy; citizens’ attitudes towards other languages than Russian as reflected in their discourses; modern practices of everyday communication with migrants in urban context. The notion of language management is crucial for the research since it ...
Added: August 25, 2019
Nurullin R., Вестник древней истории 2019 Т. 79 № 1 С. 23–40
The paper continues the previous research by the author aiming to summarize the current knowledge about Sumerian loanwords in Akkadian. It discusses Sumerian loanwords in Akkadian as a source for reconstructing Sumerian phonology and the chronological stratification of Sumerian loanwords in Akkadian. ...
Added: July 2, 2019
Gorbov A. A., Scando-Slavica 2018 Т. 64 № 2 С. 263–282
Issues pertaining to the content and scope of etymological data arise in connection with the linguistic description of loanwords regardless of how long ago they were borrowed; however, the problems become especially evident in relation to recent borrowings from European languages against the backdrop of the full accessibility of up-to-date lexicographic descriptions of potential source ...
Added: November 30, 2018
Nurullin R., Вестник древней истории 2018 Т. 78 № 4 С. 831–846
The paper surveys the current state of knowledge about Sumerian loanwords in Akkadian and is intended as a prolegomenon to future studies dealing with specific lexemes. The paper discusses the following problems: identification of Sumerian loanwords in Akkadian and vice versa; key sources for reconstructing Sumerian phonology. ...
Added: November 28, 2018
Dybo A., Норманская Ю. В., Linguistica Uralica 2016 Т. 52 № 1 С. 44–53
The article addresses the lexicon specific to Proto-Samoyed material culture, and its origin. In addition to the analysis of the available etymologies some new ones are also suggested. As for its origin, the relevant wordstock can be divided into words of Proto-Uralic and Proto-Samoyed origins, loanwords from Proto-Tungus-Manchu, Proto-Turkic, Proto-Yeniseian, Middle Persian and Paleo-Asiatic languages, ...
Added: February 4, 2018
Mudrak O., Вопросы тюркологии 2012 № 2 С. 7–46
Makhmud Kashgari's Diwanu lughati t-turk (written in XI c.) contains a couple of tradition songs fixated by the author. Some unclear sentences and words find Mongolian etymologies and shpuld be tractated as old borrowings. It shows the level of contacts between Turkish and Mongolian languages before the Chingis Empire. ...
Added: October 30, 2017
Lyavdansky A., Вестник РГГУ. Серия "Востоковедение. Африканистика" 2014 № 6 (128) С. 51–65
В статье рассматривается проблема влияния новоарамейских диалектов на классический сирийский язык в ее лексическом аспекте. На примере анализа нескольких новоарамейских терминов, заимствованных в классический сирийский, показано, что в имеющихся лексикографических описаниях классического сирийского эти заимствования представлены поверхностно. Новые публикации описаний новоарамейских диалектов позволяют значительно расширить источниковую базу исследования влияния этих диалектов на классический сирийский. Обнаруживается, ...
Added: October 23, 2017
Yampolskaya S., Вопросы языкознания 2015 № 3 С. 90–109
Conceptualisation of Hebrew language history at the turn of 19th—20th centuries poses a curious and problematic case for sociolinguistics. Modern theories on this subject, often contradicting one another, have one assumption in common: Hebrew underwent crucial linguistic changes in Palestine during the period. The Hebrew language modernization usually referred to as Hebrew «revival» faced inter ...
Added: December 11, 2016
Krivko R. N., Hentschel G., Pryhodzič A. et al., Oldenburg: BIS-Verlag der Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, 2016.
Книга содержит самую полную библиографию работ по немецким заимствованиям в восточнославянских языках и в церковнославянском языке. ...
Added: November 11, 2016