The Iranian Turkmen language from a contact linguistics perspective (original) (raw)

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Turkic Languages, Volume 16, Issue 2

Abstract:

Exposure to Persian as the dominant language and culture has influenced the linguistic behaviour of the speakers of Iranian Turkmen across all generations, from the elderly to the middle-aged and the young. This is illustrated by analysing three texts representative of the speech of each generation, highlighting the increasing level of contact-induced phenomena down the generations. It can be seen that the speaker from the older generation exhibits only minimal influence from Persian, the speaker from the middle aged generation slightly more, while the speaker from the younger generation exhibits a high degree of influence across all linguistic domains.