Use of Social Media to Create a Social Identity for a Language That Is Slowly Disappearing
Journal: DigiNole (Florida State University)
Year: 2022

With the development of digital tools, is there a connection between people with a social media presence using it to create a social identity for a language that is slowly disappearing? This thesis investigates the phenomenon of language extinction and how it has affected the Tatar languages, which are spoken in the regions of Crimea and Tatarstan. Although the Crimean Tatars and Kazan Tatars have similar Turkish origins and practice Islam, they are distinguished by differences in historical bac