A Linguistic Research of Turkic Endangered Languages

这个研究项目（1996-1998）主要关注欧亚大陆北部和中部“濒危”的突厥语。项目成员还关注同一地区突厥语以外的语言，并与国外研究人员进行了良好的有效合作。如今，人们普遍认为，对濒危语言，即那些以其为母语的人正在急剧减少的语言的研究是现代语言学的一个重要方面。突厥语主要分布在中亚地区，也有一些分布在西伯利亚东部和小亚细亚地区。突厥语系约有30种语言，其中约有20种语言可被列入濒危语言。我们的项目是研究这些语言的现状，描述每种语言的生态方面，指的是语言的现状和过去的样子。研究结果由该项目的参与者发表。我们的项目还在3年的时间里主持了16次专题讨论会和会议，为今天的语言学做出了贡献。在三年项目结束时，我们计划以《欧亚语言研究贡献——突厥语问题》（1999年5月出版）的标题发表部分研究成果，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语、多尔干语和图瓦语，欧亚大陆中部的新维吾尔语、乌兹别克语、哈萨克语、埃努语，欧亚大陆西部的加高兹语、土耳其方言、哈拉吉语，以及一些文章涉及突厥语系周围的鄂温基语、Even语、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.