Around 1000 ya, Turkic language started to be introduced to Turkey and Azerbaijan
(Region of language replacement, RLR) in parallel with the migrations of Turkic
speaking nomadic groups from Central Asia. The Central Asian contribution to the
RLR was analyzed with four admixture methods considering different evolutionary
forces. Furthermore, the association between the Central Asian contribution and the
language replacement episode was estimated by comparatively analyzing the Central
Asian contribution to RLR and to their non-Turkic speaking neighbors.
In the present study, analyses revealed that Chikhi et al.&rsquo / s (2001) method represents
the closest estimates to the true Central Asian contributions. Based on this method, it
was observed that there were lower male (13%) than female (22%) contributions
from Central Asia to Anatolia, with wide ranges of confidence intervals. Lower
contribution, with respect to males, is to be explained by homogenization between
the males of the Balkans and those of Anatolia. In Azerbaijan this contribution was
18% in females and 32% in males.
Moreover, results pointed out that the Central Asian contribution in RLR can not be
totally attributed to the language replacement episode because similar, or even
higher, Central Asian contributions in northern and southern non-Turkic speaking
neighbors were observed. The presence of a 20% or more admixture proportion in
the RLR, and the presence of even higher contributions around the region, suggested
that language might not be replaced inaccordance with &ldquo / elite dominance model&rdquo / .
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12607764/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 September 2006 |
| Creators | Caner Berkman, Ceren |
| Contributors | Togan, Inci |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Ph.D. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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