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    FOLKLORIZATION IN ENDANGERED LANGUAGES: DUZCE UNIVERSITY CAUCASUS LANGUAGES AND CULTURES PROGRAM
    (Düzce Üniversitesi, 2024) Sen, Yusuf
    The Department of Caucasian Languages and Cultures at Düzce University Faculty of Arts and Sciences continues to provide undergraduate education with the Departments of Circassian, Georgian, and Abaza Languages and Literatures as of 2024. One of these departments, the Department of Circassian Language and Literature, has a master's and doctoral program, while the Department of Georgian Language and Literature has a master's program, and both departments are in their 11th year as of this year (2013-2024). The Department of Abaza Language and Literature, which started admitting students in 2024, has only an undergraduate program. This article examines the benefits that these departments at Düzce University can provide in revitalizing these three heritage languages, which are endangered languages in the context of Turkey. The fact that these three languages with very limited domains of language use are the subject of institutional and academic efforts is discussed around the concept of language folklorization. The folklorization of language is used to describe the situation where in the process of language endangerment the use of language was limited to a very narrow domain, such as within the family, and therefore the language no longer functions as a means of communication but rather as a marker of identity. In this respect, language folklorization refers to a form of heritage language use where heritage language speakers have largely switched to the dominant language. That being so, in the contexts where a language displays characteristics of folklorization it is clear that language revitalization processes should serve to reverse the folklorization process of the language. However, this should not mean that areas such as the family and neighborhood, which Fishman (1987) refers to as the hearth and home where the sociocultural transmission of the language takes place should be neglected in the language revitalization process.
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    Miras Dil Kavramı ve Miras Dil Konuşucuları [The Concept of Heritage Language and Heritage Language Speakers]
    (Murat TOPÇU, 2022) Sen, Yusuf
    The aim of this article is to discuss the importance of the concept of heritage language, which has been emerging as a new academic field of study in a wide geography in recent years, and to explore the opportunities these studies offer to support the efforts in the field of heritage languages. The concept of heritage language has been used in Canada for many years only to refer to indigenous languages, but in recent years it has been used widely and more comprehensively for all languages that have to survive alongside a dominant language. With this new definition, immigrant and refugee languages make up the largest heritage language group. Today, educational efforts and linguistic studies related to the languages of indigenous, immigrant or refugee peoples are studied under the topic of heritage languages, which is emerging as a new interdisciplinary area within the field of Applied Linguistics. These studies and information accumulated in the study of heritage languages have the potential to inform the teaching of heritage languages at different educational institutions, the attempts to revitalize endangered languages and the linguistic study of the heritage languages and the speakers of these languages in Turkey, which is one of the heritage language rich countries.