ADANA - Turkey`s satellite broadcasts are contributing to Turkish language spoken particularly in Turkic republics, the linguistics authority of Turkey said on Wednesday.
The Turkish Linguistics Authority (TDK) said on Wednesday that Turkish tv series broadcast via satellite improved linguistic unity among Turkic republics.
"Therefore actors and actresses, as well as anchormen, should be careful about speaking correct and accurate Turkish," Sukru Haluk Akalin, head of the authority, told the Anadolu Agency (AA) correspondent in the southern province of Adana.
Akalin said that actors and actresses taking role in Turkish series should speak Turkish slowly and clearly because people watching them in Turkic republics sometimes had problems in understanding what was being said.
The head of the linguistic authority said they were also watching TV broadcasts in Turkic republics including Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan, through the satellite.
"We are also working on linguistic unity during our visits. Efforts to adopt Latin alphabet have been speeded up in Kazakhstan and we are telling about our experiences when we meet our Kazakh colleagues," he also said.
Akalin said that Turkey and Kazakhstan would ensure a unity in written language when that country started using the Latin alphabet.
The head of the authority said that they had also prepared a dictionary of Turkish dialects to improve the common language among Turkic republics.
In his interview with the AA, Akalin proposed that tv series, films or cartoons might be shot from Turkish epics.
TDK was established in 1932 under an instruction by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the Founder and First President of Turkey. It aims to reveal the beauties and wealth of Turkish language.
Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, Gagavuz Yeri of Moldova, autonomous republics in the Russian Federation such as Altay, Tatar, Yakut, Tiva Hakas and Bashkir are the Turkish speaking republics.
(BRC-MS)