| Ortatürk | |
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| Öztürk tili/Öztürkçe | |
| Ortatürk tili | |
| Created by | Baxtiyar Kärimov (Бахтияр Каримов), Shoahmad Mutalov (Ш. Муталов) |
| Date | 1992 (first version), 2005 (second version), 2008 (simplified version) |
| Purpose | Constructed language
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| Sources | Turkic languages |
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| ISO 639-3 | – |
Ortatürk (lit. 'Middle Turkic') orÖztürkçe (lit. 'Core Turkic') is apan-Turkic auxiliary language. It is described as an averaged language. It employs a statistical approach to construct a common lexicon.
In 1992, Karimov and Mutalov devised a formula to create an averaged word from the words used in a language family. They demonstrated this forTurkic,Slavonic,Iranian andRomance languages, but it is applicable to any group of related languages.
They used 5 Turkic languages;Azerbaijani,Kazakh,Tatar,Turkish andUzbek. In 2005, they addedKyrgyz,Turkmen andUyghur languages to the comparison algorithm.[1] The original proposal omitted distant Turkic branches, i.e., theOghuric,Siberian Turkic orArgu branches.
On 18 March 2008, during 5th Kurultai, the World Assembly of Turkic Peoples decided to found International Institute of the Language Ortaturk (Anatürk).[2] VATN created an online program to calculate median words for Ortatürk. It is a simplified version of Karimov and Mutalov's proposal. It generates words based on the "double majority" principle (by total number of native speakers and by number of languages). It uses data representing 25 Turkic languages with a total of 160 million speakers.[3]
In 2020s, Turkic speakers created an online group onVK to promote Ortatürk amongst Turkic speakers. Later, they changed the project's name to "Öztürkçe". In 2023, V.A. Mireev published "Öztürk Tili" with grammar, dictionary and translations. It has more than 16,000 words in the dictionary section.[4] An online dictionary is created in Glosbe platform with "mis_ort" code.
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