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Book SynopsisAndrás 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 ContentsPreface Tabula Gratulatoria List of Illustrations and Tables Notes on Contributors Part 1 Turkic Studies 1 Pilot Entries of the Chuvash Etymological Dictionary under Preparation Klára Agyagási 2 The Northwest Karaim Lord’s Prayer Éva Á. Csató 3 Testing the Leipzig–Jakarta List on Turkic Languages Spoken in China Marcel Erdal 4 The Kaepiči [Каепичи] Peter Golden 5 Auf dem Wege der imperialen Eingliederung: Das Testament von ʿAlīkey Atalïq aus dem Jahre 1639 Mária Ivanics 6 The Chuvash Aorist Lars Johanson 7 Zu den ‘gelehrten Entlehnungen’ indischer Herkunft im Alttürkischen Jens Peter Laut 8 The Presentation of Kazakh Literature in Hungary: Research and Translation Raushangul Mukusheva 9 Some Characteristics of Cardinal Numerals between 2 and 19 in Karaim Bible Translations: New Results Based on New Karaim Materials Zsuzsanna Olach 10 Süci/sücü ‘wine’: The Career of an Old Turkic Word in Classical Anatolian and Ottoman Turkish Poetry Benedek Péri 11 Sturtevant’s Law and Chuvash Uli Schamiloglu 12 Magic, Sorcery and Related Terms in Early Turkic Jens Wilkens 13 On the Expanded and Revised Second Edition of the Historical and Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish by Andreas Tietze Emine Yılmaz 14 Baumwolle und Indigo Peter 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 Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky 16 Kalmyk Pipe and Mongolian Snuff Tobacco—as Means of Communication Based on Gábor Bálint of Szentkatolna’s Linguistic Records, 1871–1873 Ágnes Birtalan 17 Issues of Comparative Uralic and Altaic Studies (9): Medial Intervocalic *k and *g in Mongolic Juha Janhunen 18 Mongol kiged: A Verbal Adverb as Conjunction and Verbal Noun György Kara 19 The ‘Oirat Fragment’ in the Erdeni tunumal neretü sudur and Its Linguistic Value Pavel Rykin 20 A Previously Unknown Middle Mongolian Fragment from Pelliot Xixia Collection in the Bibliotèque Nationale de France Alexander Vovin 21 Opfere im Tempel des Konfuzius! Ein kleiner Almanach der frühen Cing Zeit Michael Weiers 22 On the Phonetic Value of Some Glyphs of Khitan Small Script Wu 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 Uwe Bläsing 24 Similarities in Hungarian and Turkic Folk Literature Folktales Éva Csáki 25 The Arabic and Persian Layer of Names of Chuvash Mythical Creatures Edina 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 Stefan Georg 27 Siberian Draculesses Elisabetta Ragagnin 28 A Recently Discovered Inner Mongolian Pentatonic Fifth Shifting Tunes, and Their Turkic and Hungarian Connections János Sipos 29 Turcica and Mongolica in Muʿīn al-Dīn Naṭanzī’s Muntakhab al-Tavārīkh István Vásáry 30 On Color Terms in Dagur Bayarma Khabtagaeva
