'The Politics of Scriptural Translation: The 'Canonisation' of the Gagauz Language in Southern Bessarabia

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Review:"Among the most impressive contributions to this volume is James Kapalo’s effort to rescue the Gagauz people of southern Moldavia (a Christian people of Turkic descent) from academic obscurity. The meat of his study, a fascinating account of successful efforts in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries to codify the Gagauz language (which invariably involved competing claims about the ethnic origins of the Gagauz people) should be essential reading for anyone interested in identity formation in Central Europe." (Thomas A, Larman, Central Europe 10:1 (2012), p. 80)
Original languageEnglish (Ireland)
Title of host publicationRe-contextualizing East Central European History: Nation, Culture, and Minority Groups
EditorsRobert Pyrah, Marius Turda
Place of PublicationLondon
PublisherLegenda
Pages2-20
Number of pages19
ISBN (Print)9781906540876
Publication statusPublished - 2010

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