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Sikhyrsy Sorcerers and Witchcraft in Bashkir Mythology
Introduction. The article deals with the mythologized characters of the Bashkir mythology ― sikhyrsy (сихырсы, sorcerers). Its aim is to identify and to interpret the characters and their names, as well as other related vocabulary. Data and methods.
Firdaus G. Khisamitdinova
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Machine translation between Turkic languages [PDF]
We present an approach to MT between Turkic languages and present results from an implementation of a MT system from Turkmen to Turkish. Our approach relies on ambiguous lexical and morphological transfer augmented with target side rule-based repairs and rescoring with statistical language models.
Tantuğ, A. Cüneyd +2 more
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Turkic Elements in the Floral Vocabulary of the Kalmyk Language
On the material of the Kalmyk language with reference to the Khalkha Mongolian, the Buryat languages and old Mongolian script, the article considers a thematic group of floral vocabulary to identify the Turkic-Mongolian parallels.
V. V. Kukanova, V. M. Trofimov
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Computational Linguistics and Adaptation of Turkic Languages to Computer [PDF]
This article describes computational linguistics briefly, and explains Turkic language studies in this field using Uyghur language as an example. With developing computer technologies, many software has been implemented in order to complete some tasks in
Murat Orhun
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Abstract Based on an analysis of the Old Literary Tibetan corpus—a corpus of the oldest documented Tibetic language—the present study provides evidence that literary Tibetan v3 verb stems (commonly termed ‘future’) initially encoded passive voice. New arguments put forward in this article range from Trans‐Himalayan nominal morphology to early Tibetan ...
Joanna Bialek
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The article examines the Old Turkic toponym ‘qadïrqan’ and its possible correspondences in modern languages of the Sayano-Altai region. The author suggests the lexeme ‘qadïrqan’ can be compared with ‘хайыракан’ (hairaqan), common in some forms or ...
Kyzyl-Maadyr A. Simchit
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Zoonyms of Arab-Persian Origin in the Bashkir Language and Its Dialects
Introduction. The article attempts a first analysis of animal names of Arab-Persian origin in standard Bashkir and its dialects in their relation to other Turkic languages. Goals.
Ekba Zarema N.
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Similarities and differences between Turkic languages and comparative methods in teaching them
Turkic languages are cognate language which stem back to the single ancestor – Proto-Turkic language. In the course of long and convoluted history of Turkic-speaking peoples, all of their languages suffered various degrees of change on every level of its
Gyulzura Zhumakunova
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The caliph and the falcons: a ninth‐century history from Iceland to Iraq
In the late ninth and early tenth centuries, an extraordinary number of falcons were given to the ʿAbbāsid caliphs in Baghdad, many of which were white. Gifts from competing dynasties in the northern provinces of the Caliphate, at least some of these birds were almost certainly gyrfalcons from near the Arctic Circle.
Caitlin Ellis, Sam Ottewill‐Soulsby
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