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An Eastern Turki – English Dictionary
Revised and Expanded Edition
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This lexicon is a contribution to the study of Turkic language varieties and to historical research on Central Asian civilization.
What is here called Eastern Turki is a corpus of non-standardized, mostly oral Uyghur language items elicited from people who lived in southern Xinjiang in the late 1800s and early 1900s. With its abundance of designations of tools and utensils, vehicles, professions, food, customs and beliefs, animals and plants, soils and terrains, etc., it will help us envision a bygone local Uyghur mode of life and its physical prerequisites.
What is here called Eastern Turki is a corpus of non-standardized, mostly oral Uyghur language items elicited from people who lived in southern Xinjiang in the late 1800s and early 1900s. With its abundance of designations of tools and utensils, vehicles, professions, food, customs and beliefs, animals and plants, soils and terrains, etc., it will help us envision a bygone local Uyghur mode of life and its physical prerequisites.
Birgit N. Schlyter, Ph.D. (1985), is Prof. em. of Central Asian Studies at Stockholm University. She has published monographs, translations and articles in Turkic Linguistics, especially Sociolinguistics and Languge Policy, and she has been the editor of several anthologies and periodicals.
Students and scholars in Turkology, linguistics, cultural history, ethnography and social anthropology covering topics like language and identity, minority languages, and language maintenance.