NMC103H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Turkic Languages, Arabization, Turkic Peoples
18 Oct 2016
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ISLAMIC WORLD WEEK 2: HUMAN GEOGRAPHY OF THE ISLAMICWORLD September/16/14
• What is human geography?
• It is the study of population patterns and processes that shape human activity and interaction.
• Can be historical, economic, cultural, political, urban, health related, education related.
• Can be studied quatitaively and quantitatively.
• Influenced by physical geohprahy of the earth, landscape.
• Map – the large circle indicates a population of 150 million, medium 75 million and small 10
million.
• The world Muslim population according to the report is 1.7 billion and probably increased as this
report was published in 2009.
• Pew form is a research institution, publishes on all kinds of subjects.
• The muslim population is about 23% of the world population. These are only estimates and in
soe outies, populatios’ figues had to e oied.
• Some countries want to keep their senses a secret.
• Mappig the Gloal Musli Populatio – breaks down regionals in mapping down the muslim
population to the Asia Pacifif region- 62% including indeonseia with the highest muslim
population in the world.
• Asia-pacific region includes, turkey, Iran and central asian states.
• The Middle-East North Africa – 20%, 30% with Turkey
• Sub-Saharan Africa region-15% (Nigeria most populated, with 78 million Muslims)
• Europe region-2% (Russia has 16 million Muslims)
• Americas – 0.3%
• Musli Netoks ad Moeets i Weste Euope
• No rational reported in the report.
• Middle East has the most majority Muslim countries, Egypt and Turkey with most.
• Muslim population makes a difference in how we analyze the distrubition.
• WORLD DI“TRUBITION OF “UNNI“ AND “HI’TE“:
• Shi population is found most in Iran, Yemen, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
• Sunni: 85%
• “hi’ite: % ’es: % ad Isailis, ’es: %
• Birth rate 1.5% per year.
• ; the futue of the gloal usli populatio ill ise up to % of the old’s populatio.
B the Musli populatio ill ake up ….% of the old populatio ieasig %.
• Majo Relgious Deoiatios i Caada,
• ^ Muslim population is 2%, Christianity is 44%
• Significant increase in Muslim population. The rise from 1991-2001 is at 128%.
• By 2031 in canada the Muslim population will increase from 2% to 7%.
• ETHNO-LINGUISTIC GROUPS:
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• Semitic – Arabs; Jews
• Turkic, Iranian, Indian, EAsian, African and others.
• Originally were purely linguistic.
• Arabic speaker is an Arab, but how do we define he is an arab?
• Some of these ethno linguistic groups began to identify through nationality.
• Languages were and are often used fordifferent purposes.
• In the islamicworld back in the day, Arabic was used.
• But many of the Arabic writers were not Arabs but Syrian chrisitan,s Iranian muslims or Turkic
people of many times.
• Map of ethno-linguistic group: The largest is the Semitic Arabic group.
• Arab world is sometimes defined in different ways.
• It can include sudan, Tunisia, Nigeria etc.
• Aa old is aiall e diese ad the easo fo this is aaizatio.
• Most of the population of iran and Iraq during the Muslim conquest was arabisized. The
population did not speak Arabic, but once the conquest occurred there was a process of
arabisation.
• The conquest had a great effect in terms of linguistics.
• Ajar; someone who stutters and who doesn not speak Arabic mainly from Iran.
• The Arabic language was originally the language of the nomads.
• The purest form of the language.
• Children lived in beduouin tribes to learn the language.
• The od Aa eas oad ad A
• rabiyya was their language.
• There is only one standard Arabic literally language, there are many other dialects.
• Egyptian and Syrian/Palestinian dialect.
• To e ale to alled a aa has a ultual ad liguisti …
• Jews exhibit racial diversity.
• The …. Jes ofte look like aas.
• European jews are referred to as … jes ad jes desigated fo Gea
• Central Asia jews were from ancient times and they are usually Persian speaking. Their language
is modern Hebrew, and is distinguished from the ancient language.
• Turkic languages; second largest group.
• Map of Turkic languages. Central asian, toward Anatolia
• Turkey was not always Turkey, and became Turkified in 10-11 centuries.
• Compeletely different than semitic languages.
• Same family of languages Mongolia
• Same language as modern Turkey
• Came from central asia as nomads.
• Iranian Speaking, 3rd largest.
• Different from both semiticand Turkic speaking people.
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Document Summary
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