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Jan 22, 2016 14:02:36 GMT 3
Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on Jan 22, 2016 14:02:36 GMT 3
Old Turkic is a dead language and there are no tribes/peoples that speak it now. Those tribes you mention are the Dukha (known as Tsaatan in Mongolian), a tribe of the Tuvans and they speak Tuvan, not Old Turkic. However, some current Turkic languages and dialects are closer to Old Turkic when compared with others. According to Annemarie von Gabain, the closest modern Turkic language/dialect to Old Turkic is Yugur (Yellow Uyghur).
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Jan 23, 2016 2:50:56 GMT 3
Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on Jan 23, 2016 2:50:56 GMT 3
Indeed, both Latin and Hebrew were dead languages, or more clearly, they were used only in written form. Spoken or Vulgar Latin had already evolved into different languages such as French, Italian, Spanish, etc, but its written form survived because of its usage as a literary language in the Medieval times. Today Vatican still uses Latin as its official language. Hebrew too was also used only in liturgy for quite a long time, but after the foundation of Israel, it was succesfully revived as a spoken language. Old Turkic is a different case though; it just did not die out or got limited to liturgical usage like Hebrew, it evolved into Middle Turkic which itself eventually evolved into the modern Turkic languages. Just like Old Slavic. And there is no need to revive it as there are already dozens of Turkic languages today.
I have also seen some music videos with lyrics written with the Turkic Runic letters. They are just modern spoken dialects/languages written with the runes; they are not translations of the lyrics into Old Turkic. This is done only for artistic usage as you pointed out.
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Jan 25, 2016 13:06:34 GMT 3
Post by H. İhsan Erkoç on Jan 25, 2016 13:06:34 GMT 3
I have no idea.
Actually, among the independent post-Soviet Turkic states, only Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan still use Cyrillic, while Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan have already switched to Latin. Kazakhstan now attempts to switch to Latin as well. But of course all autonomous republics inside the Russian Federation still use Cyrillic.
Actually, between the 1920s and 1940s, all the Turkic literary languages and dialects were written by the Latin alphabet. But Stalin enforced Cyrillic on the Soviet republics during the 1940s, and following Chinese occupation of East Turkestan after 1948, the Muslim Turkic peoples of the region (Uyghurs, Kazakhs and Kyrgyz) were enforced back to the Arabic script (a modified version though).
You're welcome. Indeed the Orkhon script is used, but it just transcribes the spoken Kazakh language in the video. The lyrics are not translated to Old Turkic, but only Kazakh is written with the Orkhon letters.
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