The First Turkological Congress and the Principle of Economy in the Lan-guage System

Abstract

The principle of economy manifests itself in one form or another in all languages of the world, regardless of whether a language is agglutinative or inflectional. The principle of economy in language was also touched and certain characteristic features of this principle were briefly analyzed among these topics, while the issues such as alphabet reform, orthography, terminology, methods of language teaching, the interrelation of related and neighboring languages, the theory of the common Turkic proto-language, and the history of Turkic languages were discussed and interpreted during the First Turkological Congress held in Baku on February 26 in 1926, that we aim to provide our own perspective on this issue in the present paper.

Keywords: , levels of manifestation of economy, physiopsychological economy, reflection of this problem in Sherba’s report.