TEXT UNIT ANALYSIS IN TURKIC LANGUAGES: A SYSTEMATIC EXPLORATION

The Turkic language family encompasses a wide array of linguistically diverse languages spoken by over 170 million people throughout Eurasia (Johanson & Csató, 1998). This paper investigates the characteristics of text units within Turkic languages, concentrating on lexical, morphological, syntactic, and discourse levels. The study also evaluates the commonalities and disparities between these languages in terms of text units, and their implications for language instruction, learning, and computational linguistics. The results reveal that while numerous shared features exist within the Turkic language family, significant differences are also present, which must be taken into account when creating language resources and computational tools.