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The surprising origin of Kyrgyzstan’s Altyn Arashan
Back in 2008, while traveling in the Karakol region of Kyrgyzstan, I visited the Altyn Arashan hot springs (as described here), but I didn’t think anything about the place-name other than that it was a...
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While he spent most of his career studying medieval European epic, in his retirement the versatile scholar Arthur T. Hatto unexpectedly turned to Kyrgyz. I’ve covered his work on the Kyrgyz epic poem...
View ArticleNorth Kipchak loans in South Kipchak
When I began studying the interaction of Uralic and Turkic languages in the Volga-Kama area, I assumed that existence of a feature in both Tatar and Kazakh was sufficient to prove that Tatar inherited...
View ArticleFavours in Mari and Turkic
While sitting in a bookstore reading a travel guide to Kyrgyzstan, I was struck by the following sentence from the list of useful Kyrgyz phrases: Please write it down: Жазып берсеңчи /dʒʲazɨp...
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In the introduction to their Italian translation of the Manas epic (Manas: L’epopea del poplo della steppa, Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori, 1997), Arnaldo Alberti and Begaim Nasserdinova contrast the Kyrgyz...
View ArticleMore mongolianisms in the Manas
Last October I wrote a post on some odd words attributed to the Kalmaks in the Kyrgyz poem Kökötöydün ašı. The manuscript of the Manas epic prepared by Wilhelm Radloff features these and more in a...
View ArticleKyrgyz mocking the Mongolians in the Manas
Arthur T. Hatto is an interesting character. Professor of German Language and Literature at the University of London, his interest in epic led him to study, of all things, Turkic linguistics. He edited...
View ArticleManas and the joys of Kyrgyz
If you are even in the least bit interested in Central Asian languages and cultures, I cannot recommend enough the ‘Music of Central Asia’ recordings out on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, a joint...
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The surprising origin of Kyrgyzstan’s Altyn Arashan
Back in 2008, while traveling in the Karakol region of Kyrgyzstan, I visited the Altyn Arashan hot springs (as described here), but I didn’t think anything about the place-name other than that it was a...
View ArticleMore Kyrgyz from Hatto: the Lament for Jantay
While he spent most of his career studying medieval European epic, in his retirement the versatile scholar Arthur T. Hatto unexpectedly turned to Kyrgyz. I’ve covered his work on the Kyrgyz epic poem...
View ArticleNorth Kipchak loans in South Kipchak
When I began studying the interaction of Uralic and Turkic languages in the Volga-Kama area, I assumed that existence of a feature in both Tatar and Kazakh was sufficient to prove that Tatar inherited...
View ArticleFavours in Mari and Turkic
While sitting in a bookstore reading a travel guide to Kyrgyzstan, I was struck by the following sentence from the list of useful Kyrgyz phrases: Please write it down: Жазып берсеңчи /dʒʲazɨp...
View ArticleChatigan
In the introduction to their Italian translation of the Manas epic (Manas: L’epopea del poplo della steppa, Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori, 1997), Arnaldo Alberti and Begaim Nasserdinova contrast the Kyrgyz...
View ArticleMore mongolianisms in the Manas
Last October I wrote a post on some odd words attributed to the Kalmaks in the Kyrgyz poem Kökötöydün ašı. The manuscript of the Manas epic prepared by Wilhelm Radloff features these and more in a...
View ArticleKyrgyz mocking the Mongolians in the Manas
Arthur T. Hatto is an interesting character. Professor of German Language and Literature at the University of London, his interest in epic led him to study, of all things, Turkic linguistics. He edited...
View ArticleManas and the joys of Kyrgyz
If you are even in the least bit interested in Central Asian languages and cultures, I cannot recommend enough the ‘Music of Central Asia’ recordings out on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, a joint...
View ArticleMore Kyrgyz from Hatto: the Lament for Jantay
While he spent most of his career studying medieval European epic, in his retirement the versatile scholar Arthur T. Hatto unexpectedly turned to Kyrgyz. I’ve covered his work on the Kyrgyz epic poem...
View ArticleNorth Kipchak loans in South Kipchak
When I began studying the interaction of Uralic and Turkic languages in the Volga-Kama area, I assumed that existence of a feature in both Tatar and Kazakh was sufficient to prove that Tatar inherited...
View ArticleFavours in Mari and Turkic
While sitting in a bookstore reading a travel guide to Kyrgyzstan, I was struck by the following sentence from the list of useful Kyrgyz phrases: Please write it down: Жазып берсеңчи /dʒʲazɨp...
View ArticleChatigan
In the introduction to their Italian translation of the Manas epic (Manas: L’epopea del poplo della steppa, Milan: Arnoldo Mondadori, 1997), Arnaldo Alberti and Begaim Nasserdinova contrast the Kyrgyz...
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