A Linguistic Research of Turkic Endangered Languages

该研究项目(1996-1998年)主要涉及欧亚大陆北部和中部的“濒危”突厥语。该项目的成员还关注同一地区突厥语以外的语言，并与国外的研究人员进行了良好的合作。目前，人们普遍认为，濒危语言的研究是现代语言学最重要的方面之一。大多数突厥语主要在中亚地区使用，还有一些在东西伯利亚和小亚细亚地区使用，在大约30种语言的突厥语语系中，大约有20种语言可以被列入濒危语言。我们的项目致力于对这些语言的现状进行研究，对每种语言的生态方面进行描述，参考语言的样子以及它的样子。研究结果由该项目的参与者发布。在三年的时间里，我们还主持了16次座谈会和会议，今天对语言学做出了贡献。在为期三年的项目结束时，我们计划以《欧亚语言研究的贡献--突厥语中的问题》为题发表部分研究成果(将于1999年5月出版)，编辑工作正在进行中。该项目的几乎所有成员，包括国外的研究人员，都为该出版物做出了贡献。文章-将包括欧亚大陆北部的雅库特、多尔干语和图瓦语，新维吾尔语，乌兹别克语，哈萨克语，欧亚大陆中部的依努语，嘎嘎乌孜语，土耳其方言，欧亚大陆西部的哈拉杰语言，一些文章涉及埃文基，甚至突厥语系周围的蒙古语。

This research project (1996-1998) is mainly concerned with "endangered" Turkic languages spoken in North and Central Eurasia. The members of the project also paid attention to languages other than the Turkic languages in the same districts, and good cooperation were effectively made with researchers abroad.Nowadays, it is well accepted that the research on endangered languages, namely those languages whose native speakers are intensively decreasing, is one of the most important respects of modern linguistics. Most of the Turkic languages are spoken mainly in the Central Asia, and some are spoken in the eastern Siberia as well as in Asia Minor, In the Turkic language family with about 30 languages, around 20 languages can be enrolled in endangered languages.Our project worked on the research on the present situation of these languages, the description on ecological aspects of each language, referring to what the language is like as well as what it was like. The results of the research are published by the participants of the project. Our project also chaired symposia and meetings 16 times during the term of 3 years and contributed to linguistics today.At the end of the 3-year's project we planned to publish some parts of the research results under the title of Contributions to the Studies of Eurasian Languages -Issues in Turkic Languages- (to be published in May 1999) and the editorial work is going on. Almost all the members of the project, including researchers abroad, contribute to the publication. Articles -will be included on Yakut, Dolgan and Tuva languages in north-Eurasia, New-Uyghur, Uzbek, Kazakh, Eynu languages in central-Eurasia, Gagauz, Turkish dialects, Khalaj languages in the western part of Eurasia, and some articles refer to Evenki, Even, Mongol languages around Turkic family.