Focus and Scope

The journal aims to promote the documentation, analysis, preservation, and revitalization of linguistic and cultural diversity through interdisciplinary approaches that integrate linguistics, translation studies, literary studies, cultural studies, and digital humanities. CLTLS particularly welcomes research that contributes new knowledge on languages and cultures that remain underrepresented in international scholarship, including but not limited to Central Asian, Turkic, Caucasian, Altaic, Indigenous, African, and other minority language communities worldwide.

The journal publishes original research articles, review articles, theoretical studies, methodological contributions, and comparative case studies in the following areas:

Comparative Linguistics

  • Cross-linguistic and typological studies involving minority, indigenous, and major world languages.
  • Comparative analyses of phonological, morphological, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic structures.
  • Historical and diachronic linguistics.
  • Corpus-based and computational approaches to language comparison.
  • Language contact, multilingualism, and linguistic change.
  • Documentation and description of endangered and lesser-studied languages.

Translation Studies

  • Comparative translation analysis across linguistic and cultural contexts.
  • Translation of culturally embedded concepts, idioms, folklore, and oral traditions.
  • Literary translation and intercultural mediation.
  • Translation technologies, machine translation, and digital translation tools for low-resource languages.
  • Translation as a tool for language preservation and revitalization.
  • Audiovisual, community, and public-service translation in multilingual societies.

Literary Studies

  • Comparative literary analysis involving minority and major literary traditions.
  • Indigenous, regional, and marginalized literatures.
  • Literary representations of language, identity, memory, and cultural heritage.
  • Oral literature, folklore, and narrative traditions.
  • Postcolonial, transcultural, and comparative literary perspectives.
  • Literary responses to language endangerment and cultural transformation.