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).

Preface

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