Introduction to Altaic Philology Turkic, Mongolian, Manchu |
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| Author:
| de Rachewiltz, Igor
Rybatzki, Volker |
| Series title: | Handbook of Oriental Studies. Section 8 Uralic and Central Asian Studies |
| ISBN: | 978-90-04-18528-9 |
| Publication Date: | May 2010 |
| Publisher: | BRILL
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $267.00 |
Book Description:
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There are many excellent books dealing with Old Turkic, Preclassical and Classical Mongolian and Literary Manchu individually, but none providing in a single volume a comprehensive survey of all the three major Altaic languages. The present volume attempts to fill this gap; at the same time it reviews also the much debated Altaic Hypothesis. The book is intended for use by students at university level as well as by general readers with a basic knowledge of linguistics. The 39 language...
More DescriptionThere are many excellent books dealing with Old Turkic, Preclassical and Classical Mongolian and Literary Manchu individually, but none providing in a single volume a comprehensive survey of all the three major Altaic languages. The present volume attempts to fill this gap; at the same time it reviews also the much debated Altaic Hypothesis. The book is intended for use by students at university level as well as by general readers with a basic knowledge of linguistics. The 39 language texts analysed in the volume are discussed within their historical and cultural context, thus vastly enlarging the scope of the purely linguistic investigation.