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Towards the Study of Oirat Hydronyms of the Ili River

Voprosy Onomastiki, 2022
The paper explores Oirat hydronyms of the basin of the River of Ili (known as Ili, Tekes, Dzhirgalan, Ulan Bulak, Artsata Musar, etc.) recorded in a variety of written and oral sources of the 17th–21st centuries in different graphic and phonetic variants
Badma Menyaev, Boskha Borlykova
exaly   +3 more sources

Gene pool preservation across time and space In Mongolian-speaking Oirats. [PDF]

Eur J Hum Genet
AbstractThe Oirats are a group of Mongolian-speaking peoples residing in Russia, China, and Mongolia, who speak Oirat dialects of the Mongolian language. Migrations of nomadic ethnopolitical formations of the Oirats across the Eurasian Steppe during the Late Middle Ages/early Modern times resulted in a wide geographic spread of Oirat ethnic groups from
Balinova N, Hudjašov G, Pankratov V, Pennarun E, Reidla M, Metspalu E, Batyrov V, Khomyakova I, Reisberg T, Parik J, Dzhaubermezov M, Aiyzhy E, Balinova A, El'chinova G, Spitsyna N, Khusnutdinova E, Metspalu M, Tambets K, Villems R, Kushniarevich A.   +19 more
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The Oirat epic cycle of Jangar

, 2021
We call Jangar an epic cycle because it is composed of many cantos with close mutual connections. The story as a whole concerns the khan Jangar and his twelve warriors' heroic deeds: how they build up the khan's palace, how they defeat threatening invaders, how they conquer others' territories, and how they woo and marry beautiful maidens according to ...
exaly   +3 more sources

Xinjiang Oirat Storytellers: Keepers of the Jangar Epic Tradition

Oriental Studies, 2022
Introduction. Despite quite a number of Jangar-related issues have been duly studied, questions pertaining to existence, continuity (transmission) and preservation of the Xinjiang Oirat epic tradition, biographies of jangarchis and their repertoires ...
Bayrta B. Mandzhieva
doaj   +2 more sources

Seven Decades of Oirat Studies in China: 1949–2019

Oriental Studies, 2020
Introduction. Historically, the Oirats of China mainly live in the territory of Xinjiang, in the provinces of Qinghai, Gansu, and in the Western part of Inner Mongolia. Some of the Olets (descendants of Dzungars) live in the steppe part of the Emin Gol
Alatengaoqier, Baazr A. Bicheev
doaj   +2 more sources

To the issues of studying oirat and kalmyk lexicon

Oriental Studies, 2018
The article considers the issues of Oirat and Kalmyk lexical specificity in relation to the lexicon of ancient and modern Mongolian languages.While considering phonetic, lexical and derivational dialectisms of the Kalmyk language (Derbet, Torgut, Buzava ...
D. Muzraeva, A. Burykin
doaj   +1 more source

Y-chromosomal analysis of clan structure of Kalmyks, the only European Mongol people, and their relationship to Oirat-Mongols of Inner Asia [PDF]

European Journal of Human Genetics, 2019
Natalia Balinova, Helen Post, Alena Kushniarevich   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

On the Question of Durben-Oirat Alliance

Oriental Studies, 2018
The article deals with the less-investigated and debatable problem of the formation of the Durben-Oirat alliance in post – Yűan period in Mongolia. There were until recently two opposing points of view on it in the historiography – hypercritical and ...
V. Sanchirov
doaj   +1 more source

The first Oirat-Language monument written in Tibetan script

Oriental Studies, 2018
The paper analyzes some of the 'Tangut' materials as contained in N. Witsen’s Noord en Oost Tartarye (1692, 1705) and represented by a brief Oirat vocabulary given as an illustration to the Tangut Letters.
Jargal B. Badagarov
doaj   +1 more source

The Colour Symbolism of the Oirat National Costume Revisited

Oriental Studies, 2018
The article analyzes the colour symbolism in the clothing of Oirats of Mongolia. The paper shows that the Oirat men’s costume was  characterized by combinations of white and black which stand for the key colour opposition in the culture of all Mongolian ...
E. P. Bakaeva
doaj   +2 more sources