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Nationalist leaders in the former Soviet states strive for national
identity in both the political and cultural domains. Their language
policies contend with Russian-speaking intelligentsias, numerous
ethnic minorities, and sizeable Russian communities backed by the
Russian Federation - all presenting major challenges to facing the
legacy of Soviet rule. Drawing on many years of research,
interviews with educators and officials, and visits to the region,
Barbara Kellner-Heinkele and Jacob M. Landau explore the politics
of language and its intersection with identity in Azerbaijan,
Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
With special attention to language education in schools and
universities within each state and debates over bilingualism versus
multilingualism, their insights offer researchers of politics,
linguistics, and Central Asian studies a comprehensive account of a
highly politicized debate.
"Politics of Language in the Ex-Soviet Muslim States" offers a
unique and timely analysis of language policies in the central
Asian states of the former Soviet Union. The authors relate these
policies to broad issues such as nation-building, language
planning, and multilingualism. The book is a comprehensive survey
of language policy in the five newly independent states with
largely Turkic-speaking populations and in the Tajic republic, with
its mainly Iranian-speaking population. It addresses each state's
consideration over how the use of Russian--widespread as a second
language among the Turkic-speaking peoples and known as a first
language for Soviet-era immigrants regardless of ethnicity--should
relate to use of the local varieties of Turkic or Iranian. It also
addresses efforts in each state to elaborate the local variety of
Turkic or Iranian for use as public discourse in administration,
law, business, and politics, including teaching the language to its
nominal speakers, and considers the relation between these
languages and those of local ethnic minorities. The authors utilize
previously unpublished empirical data, which is presented in both a
clear narrative and conceptual framework.
Jacob M. Landau is Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Hebrew
University of Jerusalem. Barbara Kellner-Heinkele is Professor of
Turkic Studies, Free University of Berlin.
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