Discoveries on the Turkic Languistic Map

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Turkic languages and the Turkic linguistic map

The Turkic languages are commonly considered interesting because of their vast geographical distribution, their contacts with many different types of languages, their relative stability over time, and their regularity in morphology and syntax. Due to their development at the end of the twentieth century, many Turkic languages have recently acquired in-creased political importance. See, e.g., the surveys in Johanson 1992 a and Johanson & Csató (eds.) 1998.
The Turkic linguistic map, on which our journeys of discovery will take place, is comprehensive. It extends from the Southwest, Turkey and her neighbors, to the Southeast, to Eastern Turkistan and farther into China. From here it stretches to the Northeast, via South and North Siberia up to the Arctic Ocean, and fÙnally to the Northwest, across West Siberia and East Europe.
The area comprises a great number of different peoples and languages—after the breakdown of the Soviet Union also a set of new autonomous states with Turkic national languages. The regions in which Turkic languages are spoken include Anatolia, Azerbaijan, the
Caucasus region, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, the immense areas of West and East Turkistan, South, North and West Siberia and the Volga region. In the past, the Turkic-speaking world also included compact areas in the Ponto–Caspian steppes, the Crimea, the Balkans, etc.

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