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Emblems of independence: script choice in post-Soviet Turkmenistan
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Victoria Clement
Veröffentlicht/Copyright:
9. Juli 2008
Abstract
Like so many societies that emerged from communism at the end of the twentieth century fortifying a local culture in order to extricate themselves from Moscow's influence, Turkmenistan replaced its script to symbolize a break from its Soviet past. The 1993–1995 plan to transition from Cyrillic to Latin anticipated Turkmenistan's new place in the international community. In exploring post-Soviet script change in Turkmenistan, this article illustrates the remarkable power of alphabets to denote, construct, and even memorialize a speech community's identity.
Published Online: 2008-07-09
Published in Print: 2008-July
© 2008 by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, D-10785 Berlin
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- The sociolinguistics of script choice: an introduction
- Writing Tuareg — the three script options
- The Khom script of the Kommodam Rebellion
- A social orthography of identity: the N'ko literacy movement in West Africa
- The ascendancy of the Cham script: how a literacy workshop became the catalyst
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- Script change in Azerbaijan: acts of identity
- Script selection for Tibetan-related languages in multiscriptal environments
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- Margins of Writing, Origins of Cultures, edited by Seth L. Sanders
