Loanwords in Uyghur in a Historical and Socio-Cultural Perspective

Öz

Modern Uyghur is one of the Eastern Turkic languages which serves as the regional lingua franca and spoken by the Uyghur people living in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) of China, whose first language is not Mandarin Chinese. The number of native Uyghur speakers is currently estimated to be more than 12 million all over the world (Uyghur language is spoken by more than 11 million people in East Turkistan, the Uyghur homeland. It is also spoken by more than 300,000 people in Kazakhstan, and there are Uyghur-speaking communities in Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Pakistan, India, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Mongolia, Australia, Germany, the United States of America, Canada and other countries).
The Old Uyghur language has a great number of loanwords adopted from different languages at different historical periods. The loanwords come from sources such as ancient Chinese, the ancient Eastern Iranian languages of Saka, Tocharian and Soghdian of the Tarim Basin. Medieval Uyghur, which developed from Old Uyghur and Karakhanid Turkic, is in contrast to Old Uyghur, is a language containing a substantial amount of Arabic and Persian lexical elements. Modern Uyghur was developed on the basis of Chaghatay Turki, which had also been heavily influenced by Arabic and Persian vocabularies. After the beginning of the twentieth century, however, the strong Arabic and Persian lexical influence weakened and, instead, modern scientific and technological vocabulary got borrowed from European languages via Russian and Central Asian Turkic languages began to increase in proportion. From the end of the 1950s to the beginning of the 1980s, the lexical influence of Chinese became increasingly stronger. Since the middle of the 1980s, on the other hand, there has been a tendency to replace Chinese loanwords with indigenous word formations, loaned translations or international terms copied from Russian.
This paper will discuss the loanwords in the Uyghur language and their historical and socio-cultural backgrounds. At the same time, we will clarify these loanwords by looking at the basis of current Uyghur studies and other sources for the purpose of elucidating the historical and socio- cultural backgrounds of Uyghur linguistic development.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Uyghur Loanwords,Language Contact,History,Socio-cultural Background,Etymological Analysis

Tarihi ve Sosyo-Kültürel Açıdan Uygurcada Alıntı Kelimeler (1)

Öz

Çağdaş Uygurca, yerel ortak dil olarak hizmet eden doğu Türk dillerinden biridir. Bu dil, ilk dili Mandarin Çincesi olmayan Çin’in Sincan Uygur Özerk Bölgesi’nde (XUAR) yaşayan Uygur halkı tarafından konuşulmaktadır. Uygur Türkçesini konuşan insanların sayısının şu anda tüm dünyada 12 milyondan fazla olduğu tahmin edilmektedir. (Uygur dili, Uygur vatanı olan Doğu Türkistan’da 11 milyondan fazla kişi tarafından konuşulmaktadır. Ayrıca bu dil, Kazakistan’da 300.000’den fazla kişi tarafından konuşulmaktadır ve Kırgızistan, Özbekistan, Tacikistan, Pakistan, Hindistan, Suudi Arabistan, Türkiye, Moğolistan, Avustralya, Almanya, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri, Kanada ve diğer ülkelerde Uygurca konuşan topluluklar vardır).
Eski Uygur dili, farklı tarihsel dönemlerde farklı dillerden benimsenen çok sayıda alıntı kelimelere sahiptir. Alıntı kelimeler, Tarım Havzası’ndan Sogdça ve Toharca, Saka’nın antik Doğu İran dilleri, eski Çin gibi kaynaklardan gelmektedir. Eski Uygur ve Karahanlı Türkçesinden gelişen Ortaçağ Uygurcası, Eski Uygurcanın aksine, önemli miktarda Arapça ve Farsça sözcük öğeleri içeren bir dildir. Modern Uygurca, Arapça ve Farsça kelime dağarcığından da etkilenen Çağatay Türkçesi temel alınarak geliştirildi. Bununla birlikte, yirminci yüzyılın başlangıcından sonra, güçlü Arap ve Farsça sözcüksel etki zayıfladı ve bunun yerine, Rus ve Orta Asya Türk dilleri aracılığıyla Avrupa dilinden ödünç alınan modern bilimsel ve teknolojik kelime orantılı olarak artmaya başladı. 1950’lerin sonundan 1980’lerin başına kadar, Çinlilerin sözcüksel etkisi gittikçe güçlendi. 1980’lerin ortalarından bu yana, Rusçadan kopyalanan uluslararası terimler veya ödünç çeviriler ve yerel kelime oluşumları ile Çince alıntı kelimelerin yer değiştirme eğilimi vardır.
Bu makale Uygur dilindeki alıntı kelimelerini ve onların tarihsel ve sosyo-kültürel geçmişlerini tartışacaktır. Aynı zamanda, Uygur dil gelişiminin tarihsel ve sosyo-kültürel arka planlarını açıklamak amacıyla mevcut Uygur araştırmalarına ve diğer kaynaklara dayanarak bu alıntı kelimeleri açıklayacağız.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Alıntı Kelimeler,Dil İletişimi,Tarih,Sosyo-kültürel Arkaplan,Etimolojik İnceleme

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