Ortatürk (lit. 'Middle Turkic') or Öztürkçe (lit. 'Core Turkic') is a pan-Turkic auxiliary language. It is described as an averaged language. It uses statistical approach to create a common dictionary.
| Ortatürk | |
|---|---|
| Öztürk tili/Öztürkçe | |
| Ortatürk tili | |
| Created by | Baxtiyar Kärimov (Бахтияр Каримов), Shoahmad Mutalov (Ш. Муталов) |
| Date | 1992 (first version), 2005 (second version), 2008 (simplified version) |
| Purpose | Constructed language
|
| Sources | Turkic languages |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | – |
In 1992, Karimov and Mutalov created a formula to create an averaged word from the words used in a language family. They demonstrated this for Turkic, Slavonic, Iranian and Romance languages, but it is applicable to any group of related languages.
They used 5 Turkic languages; Azerbaijani, Kazakh, Tatar, Turkish and Uzbek. In 2005, they added Kyrgyz, Turkmen and Uyghur languages to the comparison algorithm.[1] The original proposal omitted distant Turkic branches such as Oghuric, Siberian Turkic or Argu branches.
On 18 March 2008, during 5th Kurultai, the World Assembly of Turkic Peoples decided to found International Institute of the Language Ortaturk (Anatürk).[2] VATN created an online program to calculate median words for Ortatürk. It is a simplified version of Karimov and Mutalov's proposal. It generates words based on the "double majority" principle (by total number of native speakers and by number of languages). It uses data representing 25 Turkic languages with a total of 160 million speakers.[3]
In 2020s, Turkic speakers created an online group on VK to promote Ortatürk amongst Turkic speakers. Later, they changed the project's name to "Öztürkçe". In 2023, V.A. Mireev published "Öztürk Tili" with grammar, dictionary and translations. It has more than 16,000 words in the dictionary section.[4] An online dictionary is created in Glosbe platform with "mis_ort" code.
External links
edit- Ortaturk program at Github.io
- Ortatürk at Glosbe
- ozturkce and ortaturkce at VK.com
References
edit- ^ B. R. Karimov; Sh. Sh. Mutalov (2007). Averaged Languages: An Attempt To Solve The World Language Problem (PDF). p. 32. Retrieved 24 September 2024.
- ^ Шакиров (Shakirov), И.А. (I.A.) (2017). "ОБ ИДЕЕ СОЗДАНИЯ СРЕДНЕТЮРКСКОГО ЯЗЫКА «ОРТАТЮРК» (About the idea of creating the Middle Turkic language (Ortaturk)"". Ватандаш (Vatandash). 3 (246): 94-103. Retrieved 24 September 2024.
- ^ Mirieiev, Viktor (28 January 2023). "AmbientLighter/Ortaturk". Retrieved 24 September 2024.
- ^ Миреев (Mireev), В.А. (V.A.) (2023). Öztürk Tili (PDF). ISBN 978-601-7678-55-5. Retrieved 24 September 2024.