Another Academic Paper of Mine

Lindsay, Robert: Mutual Intelligibility among the Turkic Languages. In: Endangered Turkic Languages I: Theoretical and General Approaches, pp. 311–384. International Turkic Academy, Astana, Kazakhstan (2016).

The abstract:

The Turkic family of languages with all important related dialects was analyzed on the basis of mutual intelligibility:

(1) To determine the extent to which various Turkic lects can understand each other. (2) To ascertain whether various Turkic lects are better characterized as full languages in the own in need of ISO codes from SIL or rather as dialects of another language.

(3) To analyze the history of various Turkic lects in an attempt to write a proper history of the important lects. (4) To attempt to categorize the Turkic languages in terms of subfamilies, sub-sub families, etc.

The results were: (1) Rough intelligibility figures for various Turkic lects, related lects and Turkish itself were determined. Surprisingly, it was not difficult to arrive at these rough…