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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, possible etymology, 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. Compare Bashkir маңҡорт (mañqort).

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манку́рт (mankúrtm anim (genitive манку́рта, nominative plural манку́рты, genitive plural манку́ртов)

  1. 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

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Etymology

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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, possible etymology, 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. Compare Bashkir маңҡорт (mañqort).

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манку́рт (mankúrtm pers (genitive манку́рта, nominative plural манку́рти, genitive plural манку́ртів)

  1. 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

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