Historical Linguistics and Philology of Central Asia - Essays in Turkic and Mongolic Studies

Historical Linguistics and Philology of Central Asia: Essays in Turkic and Mongolic Studies



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Bayarma Khabtagaeva | 2021 | ISBN: 9004499954 | English | 516 pages | PDF | 103 MB

Series: Languages of Asia, 26

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.