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A mysterious animal called Al-Wark [PDF]
, 2015 The paper examines the mysterious term al-wark, which–according to Maḥmūd of Kāşğarī (11th century AD)–denotes a small animal similar to a badger (Turk. borsmuk) in the Xakani language. This animal was treated as a symbol of fatness. It is suggested that
Witczak, Krzysztof Tomasz
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Objects as Knowledgeable Elders: Lessons From the Reindeer Calf Halter Mȯnggu̇i
Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT This article presents ongoing research that reconnects a historical ethnographic collection housed in a European museum with the descendants of its source communities in the transnational Inner Asian region, specifically among the Tozhu and Tukha reindeer herders of the Tyva Republic and Mongolia.
Victoria Soyan Peemot
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ON THE ETYMOLOGY OF OLD UYGUR TWW OR TWYW~TWVW
Uluslararası Türk Lehçe Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2019 Etymology is one of the main fields of philology. It is much more difficult to find the origin of Old Turkic words than to find the origin of words in other periods of Turkish language. All the words in Old Turkic are not Turkish origin.
Erdem Uçar
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Kyrgyzstan's 'manas' epos millennium celebrations : post-colonial resurgence of Turkic culture and the strategic marketing of cultural tourism [PDF]
, 2006 The paper addresses the symbolic nature of the Manas epos and its influence on both the unification of Kyrgyzstan and the enhancement of the country's national and Turkic identity.
Bakieva, Gulnara +3 more
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Journal of Quaternary Science, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 80-98, January 2026.ABSTRACT The Last Interglacial (LIG) or Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 5e, spanning 129 to 116 kyrs ago, is recognised as one of the warmest periods in the Quaternary, with global sea surface temperatures (SSTs) 1°C–2°C higher than today, sea levels 5–10 m above the current level and biogeographical range expansion of specific tropical species into the ...
Christos Psarras +10 more
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Consolidated proposal for encoding the Old Hungarian script in the UCS [PDF]
, 2012 This is a proposal to encode the Old Hungarian script in the international character encoding standard Unicode. The script was published in Unicode Standard version 8.0 in June 2015.
Everson, Michael, Szelp, André Szabolcs
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The Evolution of Talysh Ethnic Identity: From Soviet Manipulation to Contemporary Reality
Nations 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
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Classification and survey of Turkic languages
Linguistica Brunensia, 2013 Turkic languages are the second largest language family in Europe after Indo-European languages. In the first part of the article some models of genetic and partly geographic classifications of Turkic languages are presented.
Michal Schwarz, Václav Blažek
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Researching and teaching Tuvan language in Turkey: a concise history
Новые исследования Тувы, 2018 The earliest studies of Tuvan language in Turkey go back to A. C. Emre’s grammar (1949). Emre was the first scholar in Turkey to do a comparative study of phonetics of Turkic languages. The 1960s saw the publication of S.I. Çağatay’s studies in Turkology.
Mehmet Ölmez
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К вопросу об отражении тюркских анлаутных аффрикат в волжско-булгарских заимствованиях марийского языка; pp. 256-266 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2017 The etymology of three Mari words (ÄinÄe âperlâ, Å¡aman < Å¡am-an âtastyâ and šü¸ar âgraveâ) are reconsidered by the author. She argues for the Volga ÂBulgarian origin of all of them in the light of the new results of research on ...
Klára Agyagási
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