Middle Mongolian Loan Words in Volga Kipchak Languages
Middle Mongolian Loan Words in Volga Kipchak Languages

Author: Éva Csáki

Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9783447053815

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The book deals with Mongolian loanwords in the Kipchak Turkic languages Tatar and Bashkir of the Volga area. After the sudden rise of the Chingisid Empire, Middle Mongolian exerted a vehement influence on the languages spoken in the subdued territories. This was the case even in the north-western most part of the empire. Tatar and Bashkir borrowed numerous Middle Mongolian words that reflect the culture of the Mongols of that age. In the following centuries, this vocabulary underwent significant changes in phonetics, morphology, semantics, and stylistic values. Middle Mongolian is reflected differently even in the languages of the socalled Altaic family. The author examines changes on both the Mongolian and the Kipchak side. The material provides valuable data that document important processes of the language history of the region. The book tries to capture characteristic elements of a language contact that has resulted in a variety of substantial loans belonging to many different semantic layers.

Heritage and Identity in the Turkic World
Heritage and Identity in the Turkic World

Author: Alva Robinson

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2023-10-24

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 3110720221

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This volume builds on the work of Ilse Laude-Cirtautas (1926-2019), a pioneering Turkologist who introduced the field of comparative Turkic studies to the US in the 1960s. It presents an ongoing dialogue whereby scholars from central and inner Asia and the West engage on issues of Turkic heritage, identity, language and literature. The discussions enrich scholarship in Central and Inner Asian Studies and explore the question "Who are the Turks?"

Turkic-Iranian Contact Areas
Turkic-Iranian Contact Areas

Author: Lars Johanson

Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9783447052764

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International conference proceedings, Mainz, 1997 and 1998.

Eine hundertblättrige Tulpe - Bir ṣadbarg lāla
Eine hundertblättrige Tulpe - Bir ṣadbarg lāla

Author: Ingeborg Hauenschild

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2020-08-10

Total Pages: 507

ISBN-13: 3112209249

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Studien zur Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur der Turkvölker was founded in 1980 by the Hungarian Turkologist György Hazai. The series deals with all aspects of Turkic language, culture and history, and has a broad temporal and regional scope. It welcomes manuscripts on Central, Northern, Western and Eastern Asia as well as parts of Europe, and allows for a wide time span from the first mention in the 6th century to modernity and present.

Salar
Salar

Author: Arienne M. Dwyer

Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 9783447040914

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This is a detailed fieldwork-based study of Salar, a mixed, unwritten language of Turkic origin spoken in Northwestern China. Due to its geographic isolation it has become an important object of research for language contact and creolization, since both its dialects have diverged sharply under the influence of Sino-Tibetan and other Turkic languages, incorporating many Chinese and Tibetan elements. The work emphasizes diachrony, and contains an overview of the origins and history of the Salars and their language. The phonemic inventory, synchronic and diachronic phonology, syllable structure, and areal features (obstruent voicing and consonantal preaspiration) are presented and analyzed.

Philology of the Grasslands
Philology of the Grasslands

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Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-01-16

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 9004351981

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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.

Fear and Loathing in the North
Fear and Loathing in the North

Author: Cordelia Heß

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2015-04-24

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 3110383926

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Due to the scarcity of sources regarding actual Jewish and Muslim communities and settlements, there has until now been little work on either the perception of or encounters with Muslims and Jews in medieval Scandinavia and the Baltic Region. The volume provides the reader with the possibility to appreciate and understand the complexity of Jewish-Christian-Muslim relations in the medieval North. The contributions cover topics such as cultural and economic exchange between Christians and members of other religions; evidence of actual Jews and Muslims in the Baltic Rim; images and stereotypes of the Other. The volume thus presents a previously neglected field of research that will help nuance the overall picture of interreligious relations in medieval Europe.

Mongolic Elements in Tuvan
Mongolic Elements in Tuvan

Author: Bayarma Khabtagaeva

Publisher: Otto Harrassowitz Verlag

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9783447060950

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Tuvan is one of the archaic Turkic languages. A powerful Mongolic influence means that it possibly also has more Mongolic elements than other Turkic languages. Results of the present work are based on a database of approximately 1500 Mongolic loanwords. After confirming the Mongolic origin of these words in Tuvan, etymological, phonetical and morphological aspects are listed to assure, when and from which Mongolian language the loanword was taken. The study demonstrates the powerful Mongolic influence on Tuvan and establishes what linguistic criteria are available to characterize and classify the Mongolic loanwords. Accordingly an earlier and a later layer are distinguished. The later layer further comprises three groups of loanwords, the Buryat, Khalkha and Oirat ones.