... the kinship of Turkic languages. It is perhaps best remembered for the resolution to adopt the Latin alphabet, defended ardently by the congress’s Azerbaijani organizer and president, Samedağa Ağamalıoğlu, who followed Lenin in his belief that Latinization promised “revolution in the East.” A reading...

..., translator, and missionary, who attempted to spread Christianity among the Tatar Muslim population of Kazan through the use of bilingual Turkic and Russian language instruction. See Isabelle Kreindler, “Educa- tional Policies toward the Eastern Nationalities in Tsarist Russia: A Study of the Il’minskii...

... Edebiyatı’nda Cereyanlar,” in Edebiyat Üzerine Makale- ler, ed. Zeynep Kerman (Istanbul: Milli Eğitim Basımevi, 1969), 103. 7. The Ottoman Turkish alphabet included the letters pe, çim, je, and gef, added to the Arabic alphabet to represent the four Persian sounds. 8. Though Turkic populations had been...

...- Balkaria, Adygea, and Karachai- Cherkessia. 166 boundary 2 / Summer 2012 a Turkic language with the Azeri intellectual Mirza Fatali Akhundov and writ- ing about the landscape and inhabitants of the Caucasus, Lermontov con- tributed to a discourse of Russian Orientalism His interest in Turkic Mus...

... eighteenth century in which Indo-Persian, Perso- Arabic, and Turkic linguistic traces of peoples’ histories underwent a secular linguistic purge. Premsagar calls this linguistic purge the abandon- ing of the Bhāsa of Yavanas, or geographically identified outsiders. Secu- lar purges of language are...

... searched for Turkish equivalents in old Turkish dictionaries and classical texts and incorporated vernacular words from Anatolian dialects and other Turkic languages. When they used these resources to the full and the language was still felt lacking, linguistic coin- ers produced neologisms foreign...

... Islamic and mostly Islamic Turkic populations extending to the bound- aries of the PRC, and memories of imperial greatness under its Ottoman predecessors seem to have been sufficient to foster dreams of a “Turk- ish model” claiming the twenty-first­ century for its own. As in these other cases...