Code-Switching Pattern of Turkish-Russian Bilingual Ahiska Turks and Matrix Language Frame Model

Abstract

During the 75 years following Ahiska Turks' expatriation from their homeland in Soviet Georgia in 1944 to the Central Asian Soviet Republics, they have evolved into a multilingual society. Ahiska Turks use Turkish and Russian language pairs in their daily communication. They adopt code-switching strategies in their daily communication. Turkish-Russian code-switching pattern of Ahiska Turks was not analyzed linguistically in terms of bilingual communication. Therefore, this study aims to investigate Ahiska Turks from a different perspective. It reflects the code-switching situation by examining the Bishkek show of Miko Sov, an Ahiska Turks' comedy group. The records were investigated based on the Matrix Language Frame Model and the pattern is divided into categories as nouns, adjectives, adpositions, verbs, and adverbs. It is determined that the same strategies were followed with other Turkic languages contacting Russian.