특별군사작전과 단일튀르크문자 제정으로 인한 러시아어의 지위 변화 연구

Abstract

On February 2022, Russia launched a Special Military Operation in Ukraine. Language problems are one of the reasons for the invasion. Since the founding of the Soviet Union, Russia and the Russian people have made great efforts to establish the Russian language as a means of eradicating illiteracy, spreading communism around the world, and expanding and preserving the function and role of a multi-ethnic country composed of more than 130 ethnic groups. Even after the official dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991, President Putin is still interested in creating and operating a “Foundation Russkiy Mir” in June 2007 for the development and dissemination of Russian language and culture, and "Russia Center“ is being established in foreign countries. It is clear that Russians, Russian-speaking residents, and the justification for the protection of the Russian language in Ukraine are clearly one important cause of this military operation. The outcome of the Russia-Ukraine war, another name given by the West, is difficult to predict, but if Russia fails to achieve its goal, it will also have a significant impact on the international status of the Russian language, which will seriously damage the Russian language, which has the status of lingua franca in the post-Soviet space. The creation of a “Single Turkic Alphabet” announced by the the “Commission for the Unified Alphabet of the Turkic world” in Baku, Azerbaijan in September 2024 also negatively affected Russia and the Russian language. Russia's decline in influence in almost all sectors as a major power can eventually be expected to result in the Latin transition of the label in the post-Soviet space, but it can be seen that it varies from country to country. In other words, while I anticipate a reduction in the use of Russian and a decline in its status, there will be no rapid decline in the short term. No matter how much nationalists and pro-Western supporters deny the idea of a Central Asian Turkic origin, Russian remains an important part of everyday communication and daily life and can not be completely separated. Aside from Kazakhstan, which has not yet switched to Latin, many residents are familiar with Cyrillic alphabet even in Uzbekistan, which has switched to text. In Kyrgyzstan, which does not have a plan to switch alphabet, there are many Russian-Kirgiz bilingual people. However, as the number of generations familiar with Russian language and Cyrillic alphabet decreases, it is clear that Turkiye, Turkic groups, and Turkic cultures will replace it, it is clear that a single Turkic Latin alphabet will be an important means of this.