An event on the newly proclaimed World Turkic Language Day took place on Tuesday in the historic Uzbek city of Samarkand. Samarkand is where UNESCO on Monday proclaimed the adoption of Dec. 15 as ...

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) 43rd General Conference was held in the historic city of Samarkand, Uzbekistan. At the 43rd General Conference of UNESCO, ...

The National University of Modern Languages organised an event to commemorate UNESCO Turkic Languages Day and the Shabe Arooz of Maulana Rumi. The unique celebration highlighted the rich cultural and ...

Kazakhstan’s planned transition to the Latin alphabet raises complex questions. While alphabets may not be important in and of themselves, they play an important role in helping define a nation’s ...

The 43rd session of the UNESCO General Conference in Samarkand has adopted a resolution declaring December 15 as World Turkic Language Family Day, to be observed annually, Azernews reports. The date ...

Vol. 59, No. 1-2, Migration and Nation-Building in Central and Western Asia: Turkic Peoples and Their Neighbours (I) (2016), pp. 1-42 (42 pages) The migratory history of the Turkic-speaking peoples ...

Central Asia’s Turkic majorities will play a crucial role in the success of China’s One Belt, One Road. Turkic peoples — including Turks, Azerbaijanis, Kazakhs, Uzbeks, Kyrgyzs, and Uyghurs — make up ...

An annual journal – replacing the Mongolia Society Bulletin-that began publication in 1974. It features scholarly research articles, book reviews, and embraces cross-Asian and multi-disciplinary ...

A statistical technique that sorts out when changes to words’ pronunciations most likely occurred in the evolution of a language offers a renewed opportunity to trace words and languages back to their ...

The following is a partner post from EurasiaNet.org written by Uli Schamiloglu. Republished with permission. Kazakhstan’s planned transition to the Latin alphabet raises complex questions. While ...

Interview conducted by Aneta Pavlenko. Our guest today is William Fierman, an Emeritus Professor of Central Eurasian Studies at the University of Indiana in Bloomington and an expert on language ...