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Ethnolinguistic lines of Turkey, an analysis.
[Sources and Methods] Turkeys ethnic populations are, in a word, surprising. For example, one would expect that speakers of Azerbaijani residing in Turkey would speak Northern Azerbaijani from Azerbaijan. Yet, according to Ethnologue, the Azerbaijani spoken within Turkeys borders is Southern Azerbaijani from Iran. This begs the question: are the ethnic Azeris in Turkey from Azerbaijan or Iran? Or both? Of course, all Azeris are ethnically Iranian, and Northern and Southern Azerbaijani are mutually intelligible as far as languages go, but the fact remains that many many Azerbaijanis living in Turkey did not originate where the name suggests. The same is the case for the Kyrgyz speakers in Turkey who did not immigrate from Kyrgyzstan but were resettled in Turkeys Kars province from the Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan after migrating into Pakistan through the Hindu Kush in the early 1980s. Surprised? I'll admit that I was. Equally as impressive was the imbedded My conversation with the Free Syrian Army. Posted by: Besoeker 2014-02-03 |
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