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| Answers to questions often asked of me.
| | Here I answer questions which are often asked of me. This saves me time having to rewrite answers. This is [http://jnw.name/ Jonathan North Washington]'s [[Main Page|wiki]], btw. |
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| == Linguistics ==
| | [[FAQ/Linguistics|Linguistics FAQs]] |
| === What do I do? ===
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| See [http://jnw.name/ my home page] for a description of what I do.
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| === What is linguistics? ===
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| See wikipedia's article on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics linguistics].
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| === What is phonology? ===
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| See wikipedia's article on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonology phonology].
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| == Kazakhstan ==
| | [[FAQ/Kyrgyzstan|Kyrgyzstan FAQs]] |
| === "Why have you gone to Kazakhstan / Central Asia?" ===
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| This question is often asked by both my American and Kazakh friends.
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| Сен қазақ болсаң, Қазақстан неге қызық жер екенін білмесең, нағыз қазақ емессің ғой! Қазақ тілі неге қызық екенін білмесең, лингвистика түсінбейсің - ал мына мөселе емес ;) Биік оқы.
| | [[FAQ/Kazakhstan|Kazakhstan FAQs]] |
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| As a linguist, all languages interest me. In particular, I've become fascinated by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkic_languages Turkic languages] (and more generally in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altaic_languages Altaic languages]). After this interested originally developed, I was invited to spend the summer in Almaty, so I did, with the idea in mind to learn as much Kazakh as I could. It began to sink in that Kazakh is a really neat language from a linguistic point of view, with lots and lots of material which has yet to be studied in the framework of theoretical linguistics (see above). So I go back to Kazakhstan (and Kyrgyzstan) when I can, to better learn Kazakh (and Kyrgyz) and conduct research. I also like to spend time with the Kazakhs and Kyrgyz in general (the local Russians and other peoples aren't bad either;), and have lots of friends in Central Asia now.
| | [[FAQ/Personal|Personal FAQs]] |
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| === "Where's Kazakhstan?" ===
| | [[FAQ/Borat|Borat FAQs]] |
| This question is often asked by my American friends. Lots of information can be found in wikipedia's article on [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakhstan Kazakhstan].
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| === "Қазақша білесің бе не?" ===
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| Жаңа қазақ таныстарым менен бұл сұрақ өдетте сұрады.
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| Жауап [[Kazakhstan#"Why have you gone to Kazakhstan / Central Asia?"|аздап биік]].
| | [[FAQ/Central Eurasian linguistics|Central Eurasian linguistics FAQs]] |
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| == Views ==
| | [[FAQ/Shupashkar and Qazan 2012|Shupashkar and Qazan 2012]] |
| === Borat ===
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| Everyone has different views about the "Borat" craze. Since I study Kazakhstan, and am one of few Americans to have some understanding of Kazakhstan from within Kazakh society, I feel that I should comment on this for my American friends. Қазақша сөйлейтін қазақ әлеуметі жөне дөстүрлері түшінетін америкалықтай, қазақ достарым үшін ойларымды беруім қажет екен.
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