The Ethnolinguistic Vitality of Turkish in Bulgaria Based on the Kardzhali Sample

Yalınkılıç K.

BILIG, vol.70, no.70, pp.259-282, 2014 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 70 Issue: 70
  • Publication Date: 2014
  • Journal Name: BILIG
  • Journal Indexes: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, TR DİZİN (ULAKBİM)
  • Page Numbers: pp.259-282
  • Keywords: Bulgarian Turks, language maintenance, ethnolinguistic vitality, Turkish identity in Kardzhali Bulgaria, Turkish, NETHERLANDS
  • Ondokuz Mayıs University Affiliated: Yes

Abstract

The aim of this study is to describe the assessments of the historical-minority Turkish population in Bulgaria on the ethnolinguistic vitality of the Turkish and Bulgarian languages. The study site is the city of Kardzhali, where the Turkish population lives intensively. The participants consist of 259 people. At the end of this study, it is discovered that Turkish language shows a high level of linguistic vitality in terms of demographic and orientational factors; however, because of the inability to get institutional support, it shows a low level of linguistic vitality in the presence of the Bulgarian language.