TY  - JOUR
T1  - Preface
TT  - Önsöz
AU  - Akkuş, Mehmet
AU  - Sağın Şimşek, Çiğdem
PY  - 2026
DA  - January
Y2  - 2026
JF  - Dilbilim Araştırmaları Dergisi
JO  - JLR
PB  - Dilbilim Derneği
WT  - DergiPark
SN  - 1300-8552
SP  - 225
EP  - 229
VL  - 36
IS  - 3 - Türkiye'de Tehlikedeki Diller Özel Sayısı (Konuk Editörler: Mehmet Akkuş, Çiğdem Sağın Şimşek) / Special Issue - Endangered Languages in Turkey (Guest Editors: Mehmet Akkuş, Çiğdem Sağın Şimşek)
LA  - en
AB  - Since the Neolithic period, Anatolia, situated on the threshold of the Taş Tepeler (Stone Hills) such as Göbeklitepe, Karahantepe, and Çakmaktepe, and serving as a locus of human (Lat. homo sapiens) settlement, the being also described as homo loquens (Eng. “the speaking animal”), can be characterized as a “pantheon of languages” (Akkuş, 2025, p. 361) This characterization stems from its geography: bordered on the one hand by the Caucasus, described by the Arab historian-geographer al-Masʿūdī as the “Mountain of Languages,” and on the other by the “Fertile Crescent,” where Sumerian, the first language to be committed to writing, was spoken. In this geography, some of the earliest Indo-European languages, such as the Hittite language, as well as Hurrian, were spoken, and thousands of documents belonging to these languages have been unearthed through archaeological excavations.
KW  - Endandered Languages in Turkey
KW  - ethnolinguistics
KW  - heritage language
N2  - Since the Neolithic period, Anatolia, situated on the threshold of the Taş Tepeler (Stone Hills) such as Göbeklitepe, Karahantepe, and Çakmaktepe, and serving as a locus of human (Lat. homo sapiens) settlement, the being also described as homo loquens (Eng. “the speaking animal”), can be characterized as a “pantheon of languages” (Akkuş, 2025, p. 361) This characterization stems from its geography: bordered on the one hand by the Caucasus, described by the Arab historian-geographer al-Masʿūdī as the “Mountain of Languages,” and on the other by the “Fertile Crescent,” where Sumerian, the first language to be committed to writing, was spoken. In this geography, some of the earliest Indo-European languages, such as the Hittite language, as well as Hurrian, were spoken, and thousands of documents belonging to these languages have been unearthed through archaeological excavations.
CR  - Akkuş, M. (2025). Denizin kıyısındaki fısıltılar: Doğu Karadeniz’de konuşulan tehlike altındaki diller. Eleştirel Pedagoji Dergisi, 77, 361-370.
CR  - Moseley, C. (2010). Atlas of the world’s languages in danger. Third Edition. Paris: UNESCO.	Online	version.	Accessed	September	14	2015. http://www.unesco.org/new/en/communication-and-information/access-to knowledge/  linguistic-diversity-and-multilingualism-on-internet/atlas-of  languages- in-danger/.
CR  - Nevskaya, İ., & Erdal, M. (2016). Giriş. In S. Eker & Ü. Çevik Şavk (Eds.), Tehlikedeki Türk dilleri I (pp. i–xvi). Uluslararası Türk Akademisi ve Hoca Ahmet Yesevi Uluslararası Türk-Kazak Üniversitesi.
UR  - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/dad/article/1871970
L1  - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/5642627
ER  -