Shibboleth: Kyrgyz or Uzbek?

Ingrid Piller

Shibboleth: Kyrgyz or Uzbek?

Ingrid Piller

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Abstract

In his recent post “Accent and History,” Khan asked whether it’s possible to escape the prison of our accent and our language. Looking at the civil war and humanitarian disaster that is currently raging in and around the city of Osh in Southern Kyrgyzstan, it’s hard to imagine a positive answer. By all accounts, it’s Kyrgyz against Uzbek. Osh, which is only 5km from the border with Uzbekistan, has a majority Uzbek population and Uzbeks there have been campaigning for autonomy and/or annexation by Uzbekistan since before the fall of the Soviet Union.

Original language	English
Specialist publication	Language on the move
Publisher	Language on the move
Publication status	Published - 15 Jun 2010

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© 2018 Language on the Move. Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author/s and according to publisher conditions. For further rights please contact the publisher.

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200401 applied linguistics and educational linguistics
200405 language in culture and society (sociolinguistics)

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Shibboleth: Kyrgyz or Uzbek?

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