Old Turkic
Old Turkic refers to early Turkic texts such as the Orkhon inscriptions and related Old Turkic corpora. It’s an excellent entry point for Turkic historical linguistics and Inner Asian history.
Family: TurkicPeriod: c. 700 CE → 1100 CE (major inscriptional and manuscript corpora)
Region: Inner Asia (Mongolia and Central Asia)
c. 700 CE → 1100 CE (major inscriptional and manuscript corpora)
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Dictionaries
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- Notes: There are multiple Turkish languages included here.
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Discussion of the Old Turkic Lexicon
- Format: PDF
- Notes: The link is to a PDF file—see page 23 for a discussion of the history of dictionaries and lexicons for Old Turkic. Unfortunately, there isn’t a source which unites all the lexical information we have.
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- Notes: A list of words from various categories.
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- Notes: So unless you know Kazakh…
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- Format: PDF
- Notes: Downloadable PDFs separated by letters.
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- Notes: Very small. As in, there’s maybe 20 entries.
Grammars
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- Format: PDF
- Notes: Over 500 pages—if you’re serious about the language, this is the place to go! Note that this book is available all over the internet.
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- Notes: Media tutorials, alphabet stuff, and other information to learn.
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- Notes: From Omniglot.
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- Notes: From Wikipedia.
Charts & Aids
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Texts
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- Format: PDF
- Notes: There’s an English search engine here, and a nearly 900-page PDF (!) of the texts gathered together, it seems.
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- Notes: Old Turkic inscriptions, from a variety of different locations.
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- Notes: Inscriptions with Latin transcriptions; you can use Google Translate here, and click the links in the menu bar at the top to get to other inscriptions.
Other Resources
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- Notes: A site for the history and culture of Turkey.
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- Notes: You’ll need it for viewing the blogs below.
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- Notes: A possible connection? Check it out here.
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- Notes: For going between Latin-based languages and Turkic; hard to use, though.
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- Notes: They’re all in Turkish, it looks like.
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- Access: Font
- Notes: Click “help” if you haven’t installed the font yet!
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Turkish Language Instruction in the US
- Format: PDF
- Notes: A list of universities that offer courses. Lexical-Semantic Analysis of the Ancient Turkic Place Names An article published in 2013.
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- Notes: There’s actually a lot of interesting stuff on here, which is surprising.
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- Access: Font
- Notes: You’ll need to have the font installed to view this blog properly.
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- Access: Font
- Notes: Same here—you’ll need the font for this blog to work properly.
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- Access: Font
- Notes: Once again, you’ll need the right font for this one.
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- Notes: Another site written in Turkish—Google Translate in the browser can fix it!
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