Bulgarian Turkish: The Linguistic Effects of Recent Nationality Policy

Changing policies toward ethnic minorities in Bulgaria have led to dramatic changes in the sociolinguistic status of Turkish and Bulgarian in ethnically Turkish areas of the country. The major trends over the last several generations have been a shift toward more frequent and fluent use of Bulgarian...

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Published in:Anthropological linguistics 1990-04, Vol.32 (1/2), p.149-162
Main Authors: Rudin, Catherine, Eminov, Ali
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bulgaria
Children
Communities
Government
Grammatical gender
Language
Languages in contact
Linguistic anthropology
Linguistic minorities
Linguistics
Muslims
Nationalities policy
Sociolinguistics and ethnolinguistics
Turkish language
Villages
Words
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Summary:Changing policies toward ethnic minorities in Bulgaria have led to dramatic changes in the sociolinguistic status of Turkish and Bulgarian in ethnically Turkish areas of the country. The major trends over the last several generations have been a shift toward more frequent and fluent use of Bulgarian by more members of the community and the emergence of significant lexical and grammatical interference from Bulgarian in the native Turkish dialect. However, the most recent policy shifts have led to increased Turkish nationalism and perhaps to a resurgence of literacy in Turkish.
ISSN:0003-5483
1944-6527