Historical Linguistics and Philology of Central Asia

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).

• PrefaceTabula GratulatoriaList of Illustrations and TablesNotes on ContributorsPart 1 Turkic Studies1 Pilot Entries of the Chuvash Etymological Dictionary under PreparationKlára Agyagási2 The Northwest Karaim Lord’s PrayerÉva Á. Csató3 Testing the Leipzig–Jakarta List on Turkic Languages Spoken in ChinaMarcel Erdal4 The Kaepiči [Каепичи]Peter Golden5 Auf dem Wege der imperialen Eingliederung: Das Testament von ʿAlīkey Atalïq aus dem Jahre 1639Mária Ivanics6 The Chuvash AoristLars Johanson7 Zu den ‘gelehrten Entlehnungen’ indischer Herkunft im AlttürkischenJens Peter Laut8 The Presentation of Kazakh Literature in Hungary: Research and TranslationRaushangul Mukusheva9 Some Characteristics of Cardinal Numerals between 2 and 19 in Karaim Bible Translations: New Results Based on New Karaim MaterialsZsuzsanna Olach10 Süci/sücü ‘wine’: The Career of an Old Turkic Word in Classical Anatolian and Ottoman Turkish PoetryBenedek Péri11 Sturtevant’s Law and ChuvashUli Schamiloglu12 Magic, Sorcery and Related Terms in Early TurkicJens Wilkens13 On the Expanded and Revised Second Edition of the Historical and Etymological Dictionary of the Turkish by Andreas TietzeEmine Yılmaz14 Baumwolle und IndigoPeter ZiemePart 2 Mongolic Studies15 Handle with Care! The Limits of Use of Manuscripts Demonstrated on the Hua-Yi yiyu Texts of the National Central LibraryÁkos Bertalan Apatóczky16 Kalmyk Pipe and Mongolian Snuff Tobacco—as Means of CommunicationBased on Gábor Bálint of Szentkatolna’s Linguistic Records, 1871–1873Ágnes Birtalan17 Issues of Comparative Uralic and Altaic Studies (9): Medial Intervocalic *k and *g in MongolicJuha Janhunen18 Mongol kiged: A Verbal Adverb as Conjunction and Verbal NounGyörgy Kara19 The ‘Oirat Fragment’ in the Erdeni tunumal neretü sudur and Its Linguistic ValuePavel Rykin20 A Previously Unknown Middle Mongolian Fragment from Pelliot Xixia Collection in the Bibliotèque Nationale de FranceAlexander Vovin21 Opfere im Tempel des Konfuzius! Ein kleiner Almanach der frühen Cing ZeitMichael Weiers22 On the Phonetic Value of Some Glyphs of Khitan Small ScriptWu YingzhePart 3 Linguistic and Cultural Contacts of Altaic Languages23 An Enigmatic Name for Wild Pears in Zazaki: A Study on Names of Pears in Asia MinorUwe Bläsing24 Similarities in Hungarian and Turkic Folk Literature FolktalesÉva Csáki25 The Arabic and Persian Layer of Names of Chuvash Mythical CreaturesEdina Dallos26 On Perfectly Good-Looking Morphological Comparanda and Their (Sometimes, However, Lacking) Significance for Hypotheses of Language RelationshipSome Marginal Footnotes on the (Still Ongoing?) Altaic DebateStefan Georg27 Siberian DraculessesElisabetta Ragagnin28 A Recently Discovered Inner Mongolian Pentatonic Fifth Shifting Tunes, and Their Turkic and Hungarian ConnectionsJános Sipos29 Turcica and Mongolica in Muʿīn al-Dīn Naṭanzī’s Muntakhab al-TavārīkhIstván Vásáry30 On Color Terms in DagurBayarma Khabtagaeva