UNESCO HEADQUARTERS

High-Level ForumREVIVAL OF IDENTITY AND CULTURAL HERITAGE:

Turkic Language from Past to Future

- Short Program -Paris

Monday, 30 April 201809:30-10:00 Exhibition of books published by TWESCO;

Registration;Coffee-Break and traditional music performance

10:00-10:30 Opening CeremonyAwards Ceremony

10:30-11:20 Panel I. Old Turkic Inscriptions Dedicate to 125th anniversary of V.Thomsen’s reading the Turkic inscriptions and 100th anniversary of W. Radloff’s passed away. Books presentation

11:20-11:30 Coffee-Break traditional music performance

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11:30-12:20 Panel II. Literary Heritage of Turkic Language Dedicate to 125th anniversary of Maghjan Jumabay, 90th anniversary of Chingiz Aitmatov, 100th anniversary of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (ADR) and 100th Anniversary of the Atebet-ul-Haqaiq Publishing.Books presentation

12:25-13:25 Panel III. Region of the Turkic Language Spread Endangered Turkic languages.Books presentation

13:25-13:30 Closing Remarks13:30-15:00 Reception hosted by H.E. Zhanseit Tuimebayev,

Governor of the South Kazakhstan Region in the honour of participants of the Forum (UNESCO Headquarters, 7th Floor)

UNESCO HEADQUARTERS

High-Level ForumREVIVAL OF IDENTITY AND CULTURAL HERITAGE:

Turkic Language from Past to Future

Paris Monday, 30 April 2018

09:30-10:00 Exhibition of books published by TWESCO; Registration;Coffee-Break and traditional music performance

10:00-10:30 Opening Ceremony Awards Ceremony

10:30-11:20 Panel I. Old Turkic Inscriptions Dedicate to 125th anniversary of V.Thomsen’s reading the Turkic inscriptions and 100th anniversary of W. Radloff’s passed awayModerator: Igor Kyzlasov Professor, Archaeologist, Doctor of Historical Sciences, Institute of Archeology of Russian Academy of Science (Russia) THE MOST ANCIENT ROOTS OF THE RUNIC WRITING OF THE TURKIC PEOPLES Speakers:Time limit: 10 min. Osman Fikri Sertkaya Professor, Turkologist, Linguist, and Writer (Turkey)HOW VILHELM THOMSEN’S READ THE OLD TURKIC INSCRIPTIONS?

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Igor Kormushin Professor, Doctor of Philology, Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia) OVER THE HISTORY OF THE FOUNDATION OF MODERN TURKIC LINGUISTICS: RADLOFF, THOMSEN, SAMOILOVICH Kadyrali Konkobaev Professor, International Turkic Academy (Kyrgyzstan) ANCIENT TURKIC WRITTEN MONUMENTS: RESEARCH PROBLEMS AND PRESERVATION OF THE MONUMENTS FROM THE ERA OF V.TOMSEN AND V. RADLOFF TILL CONTEMPORARY TIME Marcel ErdalProfessor, Linguist, Turkologist, Head of the Turkology department of the Goethe University (Germany) GUIDELINES FOR DEALING WITH LANGUAGES AND DIALECTS WITH NO WRITING TRADITION Hurcabaatar SolonggodProfessor, Ethnographer, Doctor of Historical sciences, Cologne University (Germany) MONGOLIAN INTERPRETATION OF THE HÜIS-TOLGOI INSCRIPT FROM MONGOLIA Napil BazylkhanTurkologist (Kazakhstan) THE HISTORY OF THE WRITINGS USED BY THE TURKIC PEOPLE

11:20-11:30 Coffee-Break and traditional music performance 11:30-12:20 Panel II. Literary Heritage of Turkic Language

Dedicate to 125th anniversary of Maghjan Jumabay, 90th anniversary of Chingiz Aitmatov, 100th anniversary of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic (ADR) and 100th Anniversary of the Atebet-ul-Haqaiq Publishing

Moderator: Osmonakun İbraimovProfessor, Statesman, Ex-State Secretary of Kyrgyzstan (Kyrgyzstan) CHINGIZ AITMATOV: HIS DILEMMAS AND HIS FATESpeakers:Time limit: 7 min. M. Öcal Oğuz Professor, President of the Turkish National Commission for UNESCO (Turkey)TURKIC LANGUAGE - AS A CARRIER OF INTANGIBLE CULTURAL HERITAGE Aleksandr ZhirkovChairman of the National Assembly, (Yakutia Republic, Russian Federation) INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF MUTUAL TRANSKATIONS OF TURKIC EPIC POEMS AND LITERARY WORKS Timur KocaogluProfessor of the Michigan State University (USA) IN MEMORY OF MAGHJAN JUMABAY-ULI: ONE OF THE GREAT POETS OF THE 20TH CENTURY TURKIC WORLD AND THE ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS OF HIS POEMS Chao GejinProfessor, Deputy Director of Institute of Ethnic Literature, CASS; Chair of Department of Ethnic Minority Literature; President of China Ethnic Literature Society(CELS) (China)USING DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES IN THE REVITALIZATION OF ENDANGERED LANGUAGES

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Mohsun NaghisoyluProfessor, Director of the Institute of Linguistics of Academy of Science of Azerbaijan, (Azerbaijan)LANGUAGE POLICY IN THE AZERBAIJANI PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC Akhat SalikhovProfessor, Head of the Department of Oriental Manuscripts of the Institute of History, Language and Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Bashkortostan, Russia)HISTORY OF THE FIRST WRITTEN TEXTS IN THE BASHKIR LANGUAGE Rahmoil Safarov Chair of ancient history, Senior Lecture (Tajikstan) PROCESSES OF ASSIMILATION OF THE KARLUKS AMONG THE PERSIAN OR FOREIGN-SPEAKING POPULATION

12:25-13:25 Panel III. Area of the Turkic Language Spread Endangered Turkic languagesModerator: Süer EkerProfessor of the Bashkent University, Doctor of Philology (Turkey)ENDANGERED TURKIC LANGUAGESpeakers:Time limit: 7 min. Irmgarda Kasinskaite-BuddebergProgramme Specialist Knowledge Societies Division Communication and Information Sector UNESCO (France)АBOUT THE LATEST DEVELOPMENTS OF THE WORLD ATLAS OF LANGUAGES AND UNESCO’S INVOLVEMENT IN THE ORGANIZATION OF THE 2019 INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES

Eva A.CsatoSenior Professor at Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala Universitet, (Sweden)ON THE ROLE OF UNIVERSITIES IN TRANSMITTING THE LINGUISTIC HERITAGE OF SMALL TURKIC PEOPLES Henryk JankowskiProfessor, A.Mickiewicz University, Department of Asian Studies, Poznan (Poland)SURVIVAL PERSPECTIVE FOR MID-SIZE TURKIC LANGUAGES Irina NevskayaDoctor of Philology, Associated Professor, Senior Researcher, Frankfurt University (Germany) Institute of Philology SB RAS, (Novosibirsk) Saule TazhibayevaProfessor, Eurasian State University, (Kazakhstan)DOCUMENTATION OF ENDANGERED TURKIC VARIETIES IN KAZAKHSTAN: A KAZAKH-GERMAN PROJECT OF INTERNATIONAL COOPERATIONVital voicesTime limit: 3 min. Brontoy Bedyurov YangovichPeople’s Writer, Poet, Orientalist-Turkologist (the Republic of Altai, Russia) MODERN ALTAI LANGUAGE Nadezhda SereedarCandidate of Philosophy, Head of the Language Division of the Tuva Institute of Humanitarian and Applied Socio-Economic Research. Kyzyl, Republic of Tuva (Russia)TUVAN LANGUAGE AS A MEANS OF COMMUNICATING TUVINIANS: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS

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Liubovi CimpoeşHead of the Division of Gagauz ethnology in the Academy of Sciences of Moldova (Moldova)HISTORY, PRESENT SITUATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF GAGAUZ LANGUAGE Diana Lavrinovic Karaim language researcher (Lithuania)CONTRIBUTION OF MARKAS LAVRINOVICIUS - GAHAN OF LITHUANIA’S KARAIMS TO THE STUDY AND PRESERVATION OF THE TRAKAI DIALECT OF THE KARAIM LANGUAGE Sohrab DolatkhahPh.D. of linguistics, freelance researcher, expert in Qashqai language and folklore (France)THE CURRENT STATE OF QASHQAI LANGUAGE: A BRIEF ACCOUNT

13:25-13:30 Closing Remarks13:30-15:00 Reception hosted by H.E. Zhanseit Tuimebayev,

Governor of the South Kazakhstan region in the honour of participants of the Forum (UNESCO Headquarters, 7th Floor)