Historical linguistics and philology of Central Asia : : essays in Turkic and Mongolic studies / / edited by Bayarma Khabtagaeva and Zsuzsanna Olach.

• Superior document: Languages of Asia ; 26
• TeilnehmendeR: Olach, Zsuzsanna,; Khabtagaeva, Bayarma,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Languages of Asia ; 26.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (515 pages)

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, Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky, Ágnes Birtalan, Uwe Bläsing, Éva Csáki, Éva Ágnes 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.

Table of Contents

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Preface -- ‎Tabula Gratulatoria -- ‎Illustrations and Tables -- ‎Notes on Contributors -- ‎Part 1. Turkic Studies -- ‎1. Pilot Entries of the Chuvash Etymological Dictionary under Preparation (Agyagási) -- ‎2. The Northwest Karaim Lord's Prayer (Csató) -- ‎3. Turkic Lexical Borrowability in China (Erdal) -- ‎4. The Kaepiči [Каепичи] (Golden) -- ‎5. Auf dem Wege der imperialen Eingliederung: Das Testament von ʿAlīkey Atalïq aus dem Jahre 1639 (Ivanics) -- ‎6. The Chuvash Aorist (Johanson) -- ‎7. Zu den ‚gelehrten Entlehnungen' indischer Herkunft im Alttürkischen (Laut) -- ‎8. The Presentation of Kazakh Literature in Hungary (Mukusheva) -- ‎9. Some Characteristics of Cardinal Numerals between 2 and 19 in Karaim Bible Translations: New Results Based on New Karaim Materials (Olach) -- ‎10. Süci/sücü 'wine': The Career of an Old Turkic Word in Classical Anatolian and Ottoman Turkish Poetry (Péri) -- ‎11. Sturtevant's Law and Chuvash (Schamiloglu) -- ‎12. Magic, Sorcery and Related Terms in Early Turkic (Wilkens) -- ‎13. On the Expanded and Revised Second Edition of the Historical and Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish by Andreas Tietze (Yılmaz) -- ‎14. Baumwolle und Indigo (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 (Apatóczky) -- ‎16. Kalmyk Pipe and Mongolian Snuff Tobacco-as Means of Communication (Birtalan) -- ‎17. Issues of Comparative Uralic and Altaic Studies (9): Medial Intervocalic *k and *g in Mongolic (Janhunen) -- ‎18. Mongol kiged: A Verbal Adverb as Conjunction and Verbal Noun (Kara) -- ‎19. The 'Oirat Fragment' in the Erdeni tunumal neretü sudur and Its Linguistic Value (Rykin).

‎20. A Previously Unknown Middle Mongolian Fragment from Pelliot Xixia Collection in the Bibliotèque Nationale de France (Vovin) -- ‎21. Opfere im Tempel des Konfuzius! Ein kleiner Almanach der frühen Cing Zeit (Weiers) -- ‎22. On the Phonetic Value of Some Glyphs of Khitan Small Script (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 (Bläsing) -- ‎24. Similarities in Hungarian and Turkic Folk Literature: Folktales (Csáki) -- ‎25. The Arabic and Persian Layer of Names of Chuvash Mythical Creatures (Dallos) -- ‎26. On Perfectly Good-Looking Morphological Comparanda and Their (Sometimes, However, Lacking) Significance for Hypotheses of Language Relationship (Georg) -- ‎27. Siberian Draculesses (Ragagnin) -- ‎28. A Recently Discovered Inner Mongolian Pentatonic Fifth Shifting Tunes, and Their Turkic and Hungarian Connections (Sipos) -- ‎29. Turcica and Mongolica in Muʿīn al-Dīn Naṭanzī's Muntakhab al-Tavārīkh (Vásáry) -- ‎30. On Color Terms in Dagur (Khabtagaeva).