Politics of Language in the Ex-Soviet Muslim States: Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan

by Barbara Kellner-Heinkele and Jacob M. Landau

Politics of Language in the Ex-Soviet Muslim States offers a unique and timely analysis of language policies in the central Asian states of the former Soviet Union. The authors relate these policies to broad issues such as nation-building, language planning, and multilingualism. The book is a comprehensive survey of language policy in the five newly independent states with largely Turkic-speaking populations and in the Tajic republic, with its mainly...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472112260
• ISBN13: 9780472112265
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.8"