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The Evolution of Talysh Ethnic Identity: From Soviet Manipulation to Contemporary Reality

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 233-245, January 2026.
ABSTRACT The article delves into the historical and contemporary aspects of the Talysh people's ethnic identity, tracing its evolution from the Russian Empire, through the Soviet Union's nationality policies, to the current situation in independent Azerbaijan.
Petr Kokaisl
wiley   +1 more source

Turkic-Mongolian Names of Neat and Small Cattle in the Khalkha Mongolian Language

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2018
The article investigates the terms for cattle and small ruminants on the material of the modern Khalkha-Mongolian language and compares them with the corresponding names of animals in the ancient Turkic language.
V. Rassadin
doaj  

Dialects of the azerbaijan language and common language units in “kitab al-idrak li-lisan alatrak" by asiraddin abu hayyan al-andalusi

open access: yesUluslararası Türk Lehçe Araştırmaları Dergisi
In the historical study of contemporary Turkic languages and dialects, primary sources include not only spoken language and folklore but also ancient written literary-historical works in Turkish.
QALİBƏ
doaj   +1 more source

The Glacier Complexes of the Mountain Massifs of the North-West of Inner Asia and their Dynamics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The subject of this paper is the glaciation of the mountain massifs Mongun-Taiga, Tavan-Boghd-Ola, Turgeni- Nuru, and Harhira-Nuru. The glaciation is represented mostly by small forms that sometimes form a single complex of domeshaped peaks ...
Chistyakov , Kirill V.   +3 more
core   +2 more sources

From Masada to Sarikamis: Trauma and Defeat Turns Into Heroic Resistance and Ontological Security

open access: yesNations and Nationalism, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 128-137, January 2026.
ABSTRACT This article traces the characteristics of the political discourse in the post‐modern era, which sees the necessity of using traumas and defeat to create national‐religious narratives. Through a critical discourse study of two case studies—the Battle of Masada (73 CE) and the Battle of Sarikamis (1914–1915), this article presents an analytical
Tarik Basbugoglu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

ELEMENTS OF THE KIPCHAK DIALECT IN ANCIENT TURKIC LANGUAGE (In the example of the lexicon of the ''OltunYoruk'' work)

open access: yes, 2023
This article describes the dialectal lexicon in the lexicon of the work “Altun Yaruk”, an excellent example of the ancient Turkic language, in particular, the lexical units specific to the Kipchak dialect. The words belonging to the Kipchak dialect in the work are compared with the lexicon of modern Turkic languages.
openaire   +2 more sources

Comments on Allan Bomhard, “The Origins of Proto-Indo-European: The Caucasian substrate hypothesis” [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The main claims of Bomhard's paper are that PIE originated in Central Asia, which accounts for its Eurasiatic properties such as resemblant pronouns (Uralic, IE, Kartvelian, Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic) and originally agglutinating morphology; then it ...
Nichols, J
core  

The Function of Certain Theonyms in the Medieval Turkic-language Work “Nahj al-Faradis” by Mahmud al-Bulgari

open access: yesGolden Horde Review
This article examines how the names’ of Allah functioned in the text of “Nahj al-Faradis” by Mahmud al-Bulgari written in 1358. The aim of the article is to identify the composition of the theonymic lexicon and to describe its structural-semantic ...
F. S. Nurieva, A. F. Yusupov
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Were the first Bantu speakers south of the rainforest farmers? A first assessment of the linguistic evidence [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Popular belief has it that the Bantu Expansion was a farming/language dispersal. However, there is neither conclusive archaeological nor linguistic evidence to substantiate this hypothesis, especially not for the initial spread in West-Central Africa. In
Adjanohoun   +57 more
core   +1 more source

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