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Macedonian diasporas
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The diasporic phenomenon contains, in its definition: the dispersal of a people or ethnic community, the idea of loss and alienation. The existence of a diaspora implies a separation, or even a break, with a unit of belonging. Before dispersion, individuals were grouped into variable units: ethnic group, ethnic community, people, nation. Likewise, diaspora implies separation from a place considered to be "the homeland/country of origin". As a result, it represents a separation from the group to which one belongs and the place of origin; the severing of group and spatial ties, leading to integration, rather than assimilation, in a foreign place, turning its members into foreigners.
The salar
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Along with Yoghur and Gïrgïs, Salar (in Salar: salır gaçı) is one of the three Turkic languages specific to China. It is divided into two varieties, one spoken in the Ili region of northern Xinjiang and the other, with the largest number of speakers, in eastern Qinghai, more specifically in the Salar autonomous county of Xunhua.
Uyghur: from a lingua franca to an endangered language
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The Uyghurs are one of the oldest ethnic Turkic populations, and the first to settle down, bringing together other Turkic tribes and laying the foundations of a sedentary civilization. As a result, their language has played a lingua franca role for centuries in Central Asia and as far afield as Asia Minor, while their script is still used today by Mongolian populations.
Chaghatay: the acrolect of Central Asian and Russian Turks
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If the Ottomans could pride themselves on cultivating a language that, alongside Arabic and Persian, embodied one of the three great means of expression in the Muslim world, the Turks who populated the more easterly regions of Eurasia also possessed a literary idiom that was no less illustrious. Oriental" Turkish, more commonly referred to today as "Chaghatay" Turkish, even provided a model for Sublime Porte scholars as they developed their poetic repertoire in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Notebooks from Gagauzia
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The latest presidential election in Moldova served as a reminder, if one were needed, of the persistence of deep divisions within Moldovan society, particularly with regard to the autonomous territorial unit of Gagauzia. The discrepancy between the Romanian-speaking Moldovans and the Gagauz, of Turkish origin, is part of a historical trajectory that is all the more fascinating in that it is likely to shed light on the future of many peoples on the fringes of Europe. Here's an overview of a little-known land.
Bichig Mongolian", a thousand-year-old script in survival mode
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Mongol bichig", or "Mongolian script", is one of the two scripts currently used in the Republic of Mongolia. Its use declined throughout the 20th century, with the imposition of the Cyrillic alphabet under Soviet influence in the 1940s, so that today only a minority of the population master it. In recent years, however, there has been a revitalization of Bichig Mongolian, which could regain its status as Mongolia's official script in the next few years. Here's a look back at the history and use of this script.
The Forest of Brushes - Chinese Calligraphy
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The Chinese art of calligraphy[1] has been esteemed in China for two thousand years as the ideal aesthetic act of artistic accomplishment. Considered superior to painting, which is a direct offshoot of it, calligraphy occupies the minds and eyes of the Chinese from their first contact with writing, which constitutes its semantic support and repertoire of forms.