Author ｜
Zhe Wu
Abstract ｜
The reform of the script of modern Turkic languages is a topic related to political factors. This particular issue also has political and cultural linkages between different empires and different modern nation states. This paper, based on the discussion of the influence of Turkic script reform in Ottoman-Turkey and the Russia-Soviet on the reform of Xinjiang’s Turkic scripts, observes the process of the reform of the Turkic scripts in Xinjiang under the regime of PRC in the 1950s and examines the clues of language politics behind it. Modern nations usually formulate language policies for the purpose of national integration; however, in practice, it is often necessary to find a balance between national integration and maintaining cultural diversity. In the evolution of the Latinization of the Turkic Scripts in Xinjiang in the 1950s, this ideal state was out of balance.
keywords ｜
Xinjiang, Turkic languages, Uyghur language, script reform, language politic