Turkic Languages 2023/2024
Course List
List of courses.
Turkic Languages
List of courses in Turkic Languages.
Bachelor's level, basic courses
Bachelor's level, continuing courses
- Bachelor's Thesis in Turkic Languages, 15 credits
- Internship 1 in Turkic Languages, 15 credits
- Internship 2 in Turkic Languages, 15 credits
- Internship in Turkic Languages, 30 credits
- Ottoman, 7.5 credits
- Turkic Languages 2, 30 credits
- Turkic Languages 3, 30 credits
- Turkic Languages 4, 30 credits
- Turkic Languages 3A, 30 credits
- Turkic Linguistics, 7.5 credits
- Turkish: Intermediate Course, 15 credits
Master's level courses
- Comparative Turcology: Kipchak and Oghuz Languages, 7.5 credits
- Comparative Turcology: Siberian Turkic Languages, 7.5 credits
- Current Trends in Turkic Linguistics, 7.5 credits
- History of the Turkic Languages, 7.5 credits
- Independent Study in Turkic Linguistics and Philology, 7.5 credits
- Internship in Turkic Languages/Turkish, 30 credits
- Master's Thesis in Turkic Languages, 30 credits
- Middle Turkic Philology, 7.5 credits
- Old Turkic Philology, 7.5 credits
- Optional Language: Turkish 1, 15 credits
- Optional Language: Turkish 2, 15 credits
- Typology of the Turkic Languages, 7.5 credits
About the Subject
Turkic languages form a comprehensive language family with about 200 million speakers. They are spoken across a wide geographical area stretching from the Balkans through Central Asia to northeast Siberia. As the official language of Turkey, Turkish is the largest modern Turkic language; it is also one of the most important immigrant languages in north-western Europe today, with about three million speakers in Germany alone. There are around twenty standard Turkic languages with a considerable literary tradition, including Azeri, Turkmen, Tatar, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Uzbek, Uighur and Yakut. The languages are documented from the 8th century on. The earliest sources were written with a runiform alphabet similar to Scandinavian runes. Later literary languages, such as Chagatai and Ottoman were written in the Arabic script. Since 1928, Turkish uses a Latin alphabet. Several other Turkic languages which were previously written with a Cyrillic-based alphabet now use different Latin-based ones.
At Bachelor's level, the studies aim to provide a solid knowledge of Turkish by studying grammar as well as modern and classical texts. The courses also include spoken and written exercises. Advanced seminars deal with Turkic language history, the history of the Turkic peoples, Turkic literature, and Turkic linguistics. It is also possible to attend introductory courses in other Turkic languages (Uighur, Uzbek, Kazakh, Azeri).
Studies in Turkic languages can also be carried out within the Bachelor's Programme in Oriental Studies and the Bachelor's Programme in Languages (both are taught in Swedish).
At the Master's level Turkic languages can be studied as part of the Master's Programme in Languages or within the Master's Programme in Turkic Studies, a double degree programme offered in collaboration with the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany.