маңҡорт

This term was introduced by the Kyrgyz author Chinghiz Aitmatov in his 1980 novel The Day Lasts More Than a Hundred Years, and originally denoted a "prisoner of war who was turned into a slave by having his heads wrapped in camel skin", which supposedly resulted in that "...A mankurt did not recognise his name, family or tribe — a mankurt did not recognise himself as a human being." (For citations and more, see w:Mankurt.)

However, this term quickly caught on in the sense of "a person deprived of cultural and ethnic identity," and became popular in the languages of Central Asia and Eastern Europe.

• IPA^(key): /mɑŋˈqʊ̞rt/
• Hyphenation: маң‧ҡорт

маңҡорт • (mañqort)

1. (neologism) a person with a lost or degraded cultural and ethnic identity and/or awareness about his/her ancestry, especially because of being affected by a dominant culture

   Донъяны көнбайышлаштырыуға алмаш бармы, әллә беҙгә манҡорт булырға яҙғанмы?

   Donyanı könbayışlaştırıwğa almaş barmı, əllə beźgə manqort bulırğa yaźğanmı?

   Is there an alternative to the westernization of the world, or are we destined to become mankurts (people deprived of their traditional identities)?

   Ошоноң барыһының һөҙөмтәһе булып килә инде милләтебеҙҙең тотош бер быуынының маңҡортҡа әйләнеүе; ә маңҡорттан, әлбиттә, маңҡорт тыуа.

   Oşonoñ barıhınıñ höźömtəhe bulıp kilə inde millətebeźźeñ totoş ber bıwınınıñ mañqortqa əylənewe; ə mañqorttan, əlbittə, mañqort tıwa.

   It comes as a result of all this, that an entire generation of our ethnicity is turning into mankurts; and naturally, (only) mankurts are born from mankurts (i.e.this tendency naturally reinforces itself from generation to generation).