Kazakhstan, Astana, November 17 / Trend, A. Maratov /
International scientific-practical conference entitled "Experience of Establishment of Term Fund of Turkic-Speaking Nations (Issues of Term Formation and Term Borrowing and Composition of Multilingual Terminological Dictionaries) will be opened in Kazakhstan on Wednesday, the Press Service of the Culture Ministry of Kazakhstan reported.
"The conference aims to put the term borrowing process onto the right path, and form common terminological fund of branch terminology, especially information technologies terminology," the press service added.
Scholars from Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Azerbaijan will make reports at a plenary meeting of the conference today.
A. Fatullayev, an Azerbaijani Doctor of Philology, will make report entitled "Problems of the Development of the Applied Linguistic Technologies for the Turkic Languages".
Initial steps toward the formation of common term fund of Turkic-speaking nations were undertaken in 1999 when as special working group was established under the support of the Turkish Informational Company.
First forum of Turkic-speaking nations devoted to issues of cooperation in the field of information technologies was arranged in October 2001. The collective body later on continued work on various topics in Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and Kyrgyzstan.
Specialists in Turkic philology now meet at the ninth forum in Astana arranged by the Kazakh Culture Ministry's Language Committee jointly with Turkey's Language Committee and Information Technologies Company.