Professor György Kara, an outstanding member of academia, celebrated his 80th birthday recently. His students and colleagues commemorate this occasion with papers on a wide range of topics in Altaic Studies, with a focus on the literacy, culture and languages of the steppe civilizations.
Ãkos Bertalan Apatóczky, Ph.D. (1974), Károli University Budapest, is an Associate Professor at that university. A specialist of Chinese bilingual works he published monographs and numerous articles including those on Yiyu (Global Oriental, 2009) and the "Translation chapter" of the Lulongsai lüe (Brill, 2016).
Christopher P. Atwood, Ph.D. (1964), is Professor in the East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department at the University of Pennsylvania. His works include Young Mongols and Vigilantes in Inner Mongolia's Interregnum Decades (2002), and Encyclopedia of Mongolia and the Mongol Empire (2004).
12 The Dongxiang (Santa) Ending -ÄuÅ and Its Allies
âHans Nugteren
13 Sino-Mongolica in the Qırġız Epic Poem Kökötöyâs Memorial Feast by Saġımbay Orozbaq uulu
âDaniel Prior
14 BadÉkÅ¡aan
âElisabetta Ragagnin
15 Kollektaneen zum Uigurischen Wörterbuch: Zwei Weisheiten und Drei Naturen im Uigurischen Buddhismus
âVon Klaus Röhrborn
16 Some Medical and Related Terms in Middle Mongɣol
âVolker Rybatzki
17 Reflexes of the *VgV and *VxV Groups in the Mongol Vocabulary of the Sino-Mongol Glossary Dada yu/Beilu yiyu (Late 16thâEarly 17th Cent.)
âPavel Rykin
18 Early Serbi-MongolicâTungusic Lexical Contact: Jurchen Numerals from the 室é Shirwi (Shih-wei) in North China
âAndrew Shimunek
19 On the Phenomeno-Logic behind some Mongolian Verbs
âInes Stolpe and Alimaa Senderjav
20 Spelling Variation in Cornelius Rahmnâs Kalmuck Manuscripts as Evidence for Sound Changes
âJan-Olof Svantesson
21 Four Tungusic Etymologies
âAlexander Vovin
22 Zum Werktitel mongolischer Texte seit dem 17. Jahrhundert
âMichael Weiers
23 The Last-Words of Xiao Chala Xianggong in Khitan Script
âWu Yingzhe
24 Proper Names in the Oirat Translation of âThe Sutra of Golden Lightâ
âNatalia Yakhontova
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All interested in philology and linguistics as well as in the history and cultures of the Eurasian steppe civilizations.