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Language Policy and Hegemony in the Turkic Republics

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Examines the concept of power in the context of language-planning developments in the Turkic-speaking successor states of the Soviet Union: Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Kyrgystan and Azerbaijan. Particular attention is paid to the vicissitudes of the status of Russian in the region since the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

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    www.oxuscom.com/Soviet _Language_Policy_in_CA.pdf

  2. 2.

    Ibid. p. 2.

  3. 3.

    Ibid. p. 2.

  4. 4.

    service.shop.kg/2013/06/27/uzbekistan-locked-in-alphabet-limbo-2/

  5. 5.

    http://www.stat.uz

  6. 6.

    http://chalkboard.tol.org/uzbekistan-do-you-speak-russian/

  7. 7.

    astanatimes.com/2013/10/russian-language-still-important-while-kazakh-need-to-be-learned-president-says/

  8. 8.

    www.eurasianet.org/node/62916

  9. 9.

    www.russkiymir.ru/en/publications/140431/

  10. 10.

    www.chrono-tm.org/en/2014/07/the-use-of-russian-language-in-education-to-be-reduced-in-turkmenistan/

  11. 11.

    http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/centralasia/turkmen-language.htm

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    http://www.mid.ru/en/maps/tm/-/asset_publisher/32J0LjSL2Nmm/content/id/2038332

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    vestnikkavkaza.net/articles/society/57345.html

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    http://www.mid.ru/en/maps/az/-/asset_publisher/0TeVwfjLGJmg/content/id/2350567

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    www.stat.gov.az

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    www.azer.com/aiweb/categories/magazine/73_folder/73_articles/73_name.html

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Dietrich, A. (2018). Language Policy and Hegemony in the Turkic Republics. In: Andrews, E. (eds) Language Planning in the Post-Communist Era. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70926-0_6

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