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Historical Linguistics and Philology of Central Asia
Essays in Turkic and Mongolic Studies
Series: - Languages of Asia, Volume: 26
Volume Editor:
András Róna-Tas, distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Szeged, Hungary, winner of several international prestigious prizes, has devoted his long academic career to the study of Chuvash, Turkic elements in Hungarian, Mongolic-Tibetan linguistic contacts, the Para-Mongolic language Khitan and other Central Asian languages and cultures.
This book, presented to him in the occasion of his 90th birthday, contains a collection of papers in Turkic and Mongolic Studies, with a focus on the literacy, culture, and languages of the steppe civilizations. It is organized in three sections: Turkic Studies, Mongolic Studies, and Linguistic and cultural contacts of Altaic languages. It contains papers by some of most renowned experts in Central Asia Studies.
Contributors are Klára Agyagási, Ãkos Bertalan Apatóczky, Ãgnes Birtalan, Uwe Bläsing, Ãva Csáki, Ãva Ãgnes Csató, Edina Dallos, Marcel Erdal, Stefan Georg, Peter Golden, Mária Ivanics, Juha Janhunen, Lars Johanson, György Kara, Bayarma Khabtagaeva, Jens Peter Laut, Raushangul Mukusheva, Olach Zsuzsanna, Benedek Péri, Elisabetta Ragagnin, Pavel Rykin, Uli Schamiloglu, János Sipos, István Vásáry, Alexander Vovin, Michael Weiers, Jens Wilkens, Wu Yingzhe, Emine Yilmaz, and Peter Zieme.
This book, presented to him in the occasion of his 90th birthday, contains a collection of papers in Turkic and Mongolic Studies, with a focus on the literacy, culture, and languages of the steppe civilizations. It is organized in three sections: Turkic Studies, Mongolic Studies, and Linguistic and cultural contacts of Altaic languages. It contains papers by some of most renowned experts in Central Asia Studies.
Contributors are Klára Agyagási, Ãkos Bertalan Apatóczky, Ãgnes Birtalan, Uwe Bläsing, Ãva Csáki, Ãva Ãgnes Csató, Edina Dallos, Marcel Erdal, Stefan Georg, Peter Golden, Mária Ivanics, Juha Janhunen, Lars Johanson, György Kara, Bayarma Khabtagaeva, Jens Peter Laut, Raushangul Mukusheva, Olach Zsuzsanna, Benedek Péri, Elisabetta Ragagnin, Pavel Rykin, Uli Schamiloglu, János Sipos, István Vásáry, Alexander Vovin, Michael Weiers, Jens Wilkens, Wu Yingzhe, Emine Yilmaz, and Peter Zieme.
Bayarma Khabtagaeva, Ph.D. (2007), habil., is Associate Professor in the Department of Altaic Studies at the University of Szeged, Hungary. Her works include Mongolic elements in Tuvan (Harrassowitz, 2009), The Ewenki dialects of Buryatia and their relationship to Khamnigan Mongol (Harrassowitz, 2017) and Language contact in Siberia. Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic loanwords in Yeniseian (Brill, 2019).
Preface
Tabula Gratulatoria
List of Illustrations and Tables
Notes on Contributors
1 Pilot Entries of the Chuvash Etymological Dictionary under Preparation
âKlára Agyagási
2 The Northwest Karaim Lordâs Prayer
âÃva Ã. Csató
3 Testing the LeipzigâJakarta List on Turkic Languages Spoken in China
âMarcel Erdal
4 The KaepiÄi [ÐаепиÑи]
âPeter Golden
5 Auf dem Wege der imperialen Eingliederung: Das Testament von ʿAlīkey Atalïq aus dem Jahre 1639
âMária Ivanics
6 The Chuvash Aorist
âLars Johanson
7 Zu den âgelehrten Entlehnungenâ indischer Herkunft im Alttürkischen
âJens Peter Laut
8 The Presentation of Kazakh Literature in Hungary: Research and Translation
âRaushangul Mukusheva
9 Some Characteristics of Cardinal Numerals between 2 and 19 in Karaim Bible Translations: New Results Based on New Karaim Materials
âZsuzsanna Olach
10 Süci/sücü âwineâ: The Career of an Old Turkic Word in Classical Anatolian and Ottoman Turkish Poetry
âBenedek Péri
11 Sturtevantâs Law and Chuvash
âUli Schamiloglu
12 Magic, Sorcery and Related Terms in Early Turkic
âJens Wilkens
13 On the Expanded and Revised Second Edition of the Historical and Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish by Andreas Tietze
âEmine Yılmaz
14 Baumwolle und Indigo
âPeter Zieme
15 Handle with Care! The Limits of Use of Manuscripts Demonstrated on the Hua-Yi yiyu Texts of the National Central Library
âÃkos Bertalan Apatóczky
16 Kalmyk Pipe and Mongolian Snuff Tobaccoâas Means of Communication
Based on Gábor Bálint of Szentkatolnaâs Linguistic Records, 1871â1873
âÃgnes Birtalan
17 Issues of Comparative Uralic and Altaic Studies (9): Medial Intervocalic *k and *g in Mongolic
âJuha Janhunen
18 Mongol kiged: A Verbal Adverb as Conjunction and Verbal Noun
âGyörgy Kara
19 The âOirat Fragmentâ in the Erdeni tunumal neretü sudur and Its Linguistic Value
âPavel Rykin
20 A Previously Unknown Middle Mongolian Fragment from Pelliot Xixia Collection in the Bibliotèque Nationale de France
âAlexander Vovin
21 Opfere im Tempel des Konfuzius! Ein kleiner Almanach der frühen Cing Zeit
âMichael Weiers
22 On the Phonetic Value of Some Glyphs of Khitan Small Script
âWu Yingzhe
23 An Enigmatic Name for Wild Pears in Zazaki: A Study on Names of Pears in Asia Minor
âUwe Bläsing
24 Similarities in Hungarian and Turkic Folk Literature Folktales
âÃva Csáki
25 The Arabic and Persian Layer of Names of Chuvash Mythical Creatures
âEdina Dallos
26 On Perfectly Good-Looking Morphological Comparanda and Their (Sometimes, However, Lacking) Significance for Hypotheses of Language Relationship
Some Marginal Footnotes on the (Still Ongoing?) Altaic Debate
âStefan Georg
27 Siberian Draculesses
âElisabetta Ragagnin
28 A Recently Discovered Inner Mongolian Pentatonic Fifth Shifting Tunes, and Their Turkic and Hungarian Connections
âJános Sipos
29 Turcica and Mongolica in MuÊ¿Ä«n al-DÄ«n Naá¹anzÄ«âs Muntakhab al-TavÄrÄ«kh
âIstván Vásáry
30 On Color Terms in Dagur
âBayarma Khabtagaeva
Tabula Gratulatoria
List of Illustrations and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Part 1 Turkic Studies
1 Pilot Entries of the Chuvash Etymological Dictionary under Preparation
âKlára Agyagási
2 The Northwest Karaim Lordâs Prayer
âÃva Ã. Csató
3 Testing the LeipzigâJakarta List on Turkic Languages Spoken in China
âMarcel Erdal
4 The KaepiÄi [ÐаепиÑи]
âPeter Golden
5 Auf dem Wege der imperialen Eingliederung: Das Testament von ʿAlīkey Atalïq aus dem Jahre 1639
âMária Ivanics
6 The Chuvash Aorist
âLars Johanson
7 Zu den âgelehrten Entlehnungenâ indischer Herkunft im Alttürkischen
âJens Peter Laut
8 The Presentation of Kazakh Literature in Hungary: Research and Translation
âRaushangul Mukusheva
9 Some Characteristics of Cardinal Numerals between 2 and 19 in Karaim Bible Translations: New Results Based on New Karaim Materials
âZsuzsanna Olach
10 Süci/sücü âwineâ: The Career of an Old Turkic Word in Classical Anatolian and Ottoman Turkish Poetry
âBenedek Péri
11 Sturtevantâs Law and Chuvash
âUli Schamiloglu
12 Magic, Sorcery and Related Terms in Early Turkic
âJens Wilkens
13 On the Expanded and Revised Second Edition of the Historical and Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish by Andreas Tietze
âEmine Yılmaz
14 Baumwolle und Indigo
âPeter Zieme
Part 2 Mongolic Studies
15 Handle with Care! The Limits of Use of Manuscripts Demonstrated on the Hua-Yi yiyu Texts of the National Central Library
âÃkos Bertalan Apatóczky
16 Kalmyk Pipe and Mongolian Snuff Tobaccoâas Means of Communication
Based on Gábor Bálint of Szentkatolnaâs Linguistic Records, 1871â1873
âÃgnes Birtalan
17 Issues of Comparative Uralic and Altaic Studies (9): Medial Intervocalic *k and *g in Mongolic
âJuha Janhunen
18 Mongol kiged: A Verbal Adverb as Conjunction and Verbal Noun
âGyörgy Kara
19 The âOirat Fragmentâ in the Erdeni tunumal neretü sudur and Its Linguistic Value
âPavel Rykin
20 A Previously Unknown Middle Mongolian Fragment from Pelliot Xixia Collection in the Bibliotèque Nationale de France
âAlexander Vovin
21 Opfere im Tempel des Konfuzius! Ein kleiner Almanach der frühen Cing Zeit
âMichael Weiers
22 On the Phonetic Value of Some Glyphs of Khitan Small Script
âWu Yingzhe
Part 3 Linguistic and Cultural Contacts of Altaic Languages
23 An Enigmatic Name for Wild Pears in Zazaki: A Study on Names of Pears in Asia Minor
âUwe Bläsing
24 Similarities in Hungarian and Turkic Folk Literature Folktales
âÃva Csáki
25 The Arabic and Persian Layer of Names of Chuvash Mythical Creatures
âEdina Dallos
26 On Perfectly Good-Looking Morphological Comparanda and Their (Sometimes, However, Lacking) Significance for Hypotheses of Language Relationship
Some Marginal Footnotes on the (Still Ongoing?) Altaic Debate
âStefan Georg
27 Siberian Draculesses
âElisabetta Ragagnin
28 A Recently Discovered Inner Mongolian Pentatonic Fifth Shifting Tunes, and Their Turkic and Hungarian Connections
âJános Sipos
29 Turcica and Mongolica in MuÊ¿Ä«n al-DÄ«n Naá¹anzÄ«âs Muntakhab al-TavÄrÄ«kh
âIstván Vásáry
30 On Color Terms in Dagur
âBayarma Khabtagaeva
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