Elisabetta Ragagnin: Minority Turkic languages in language contact situations in Iran: case studies
Guest lecture by Professor Prof. Elisabetta Ragagnin
Università Ca' Foscari, Dipartimento di Studi sull'Asia e sull'Africa Mediterranea
This event is co-organised by the Institute of Iranian Studies and the Wiener Sprachgesellschaft (Universität Wien).
Abstract Turkic speakers in Iran approximately make up a quarter of Iran’s population. Most of these spoken varieties belong to the Oghuzic branch of Turkic, and its speakers identify themselves as Turk/Tork and their language as Turkī/Torkī. The only non-Oghuzic Turkic language of Iran is Khalaj, forming an independent Turkic language group, often referred to as Arghu in Turcological studies. In my talk, I will present diverse contact-induced features both regarding Oghuzic varieties and Khalaj.