Archive of Monumenta Altaica News

Dear colleagues!
With great sorrow I have to inform all of you that Liya Sergeyevna Levitskaya (1931-2009), an outstanding specialist in Turkic linguistics, comparative grammar of Turkic languages, Turkic etymology, historical phonetics and morphology of Chuvash language, the author of Historical morphology of Chuvash , passed away on Friday, 02 October 2009.

13th of August 2009

The famous work of Andras Róna-Tas Tibeto-Mongolica (1966) devoted to the interaction of Monguor and archaic Tibetan dialects.
12th of July 2009
E.S.Soroçanu kindly allowed to publish her books on Gagauz:
E.S.SOROÇANU. Gagauzlarin kalendar adetleri (Гагаузская календарная обрядность) (In Russian and Gagauz).
E.C.Сорочяну. Гагаузский язык и его диалекты .
20th of June
Recent paper of Elena Kalinina on Modern Negidal vowel system.

20th of April 2009
Easter greetings to all of you, my readers and friends. Christ is Risen! And here are Easter presents:
The famous paper of the origin of Korean accent: S. Robert Ramsey Proto-Korean and the Origin of Korean accent
The first Japanese grammar on my site: Oxford Japanese Grammar and Verbs. 2003. (pdf, 39Mb).
The best of Manchu dictionaries ever published: Захаров И. Полный маньчжурско-русскiй словарь. Санктпетербургъ, 1875. (Zakharov. Manchu-Russian dictionary)
One of the best Mongolic dictionaries: Ramstedt G.J. Kalmykisches Wörterbuch(pdf, 50Mb)
Actual dictionary of Khalkha Mongolian: Д.Ульгийсайхан, Л.Г.Скородумова. Современный монгольско-русский тематический словарь. М., 2008 (Ulgiysaykhan, Skorodumova, Modern Mongol-Russian subject dictionary)
Classical work on one of the minority Turkic languages: Рассадин В.И. Фонетика и лексика тофаларского языка (djvu, 11Mb)(Rassadin, Phonetics and Lexicon of Tofalar)
31st of December 2008
Dear Friends!
Thank you very much for your continuous attention to my site all these years. I'd like to thank everyone who helped me in compiling this on-line collection of linguistic materials. I wish all my guests Happy New Year and Merry Christmas! Let the Next Year bring light and love to your heart and your home. As a present I'd like to present :) a famous Turkic dictionary of W. Radloff: 'Versuch eines Wörterbuch der Türk-Dialekte.' (in Russian and German).
17th of December 2008
In Papers section there is now
M.Shogaito. On Uighur elements in Buddhist Mongolian texts. //Memoires of the Research Department of the Toyo Bunko, 1991, #49 (pdf)
16th of December 2008
I.J.Schmidt. Grammatik der Mongolischen Sprache, 1831. (7Mb)
I've added links to Etymological dictionaries of Turkish on-line
26th of November 2008
I'm glad to present a Collection of Selected Works of Nicholas Poppe. It includes about one third (over 70 books and papers) of all his works, including Beitrage zur Kenntnis der Altmongolischen Schriftsprache, Монгольские названия животных в труде Хамдаллаха Казвини, Remarks on The Salar Language, A fragment of the Bodhicaryavatara from Olon Sume, Introduction to Mongolian Comparative Studies, Jakutische Etymologien, The Primary long Vowels in Mongolian, Introduction to Altaic Linguistics, On Chuvash-Mongolian Linguistic Contacts, Chaladsch und die Altaische Sprachwissenschaft and many others.
29th of October, 2008
On the Secret History Homepage the famous English translation of F. Cleaves is now available.
23rd of October 2008
Masaaki Sugiyama. The 'Phags-pa Mongolian Inscription of Togon-temur qagan's Edict (Memoirs of the Research Department of the Toyo Bunko, 1988, #46 (pdf, 14 Mb)
18th of September 2008
Have a look at the page of Manchu-Tungusic texts. Thanks to Anton Antonov (Paris) and Zhargal Badagarov (Ulan-UDe) one can now find there two books: Avrorin 'Materials in Nanai language and Folklore' (1986) and Ivanovski 'Specimens of the Solon and the Dagur languages' (1894)
17th of September 2008
On the Secret History Homepage one can find the first translation of this monument into European language, namely Russian translation of the Secret History by Archimandrite Palladij, a member of the Russian Orthodox Mission in Beijin. (1866)
15th of September 2008
With great pleasure I'd like to present for the visitors of my site the state-of-art book of Marcel Erdal
A Grammar of Old Turkic Leiden, 2004 (20 Mb)
25th of June 2008
One can now find the Grammar of Buriat (in Russian, 1962) on the page 'The Mongolian Grammars'
20th of June 2008
Anna von Gabain. Alttürkische Grammatik. 1950 (pdf, 15Mb)

Secret History of the Mongols homepage

Tungus-Manchu grammar page

P.G. von Möllendorff. A Manchu Grammar with Analysed texts. Shanghai. 1892. (pdf, 15Mb).
7th of May 2008
Now you can get access to the 2nd, 4th and 5th volumes of the famous Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages (scanned by Evgenia Chekmeneva)
5th of May. New materials on the Secret History of the Mongols homepage (some of the materals are submitted by Ariel Lorencio)
27th of April 2008.
Easter greetings to all of you. Christ is risen!
The Easter gift: one of the first written texts in Even -
The Gospel of St.Matthew in Lamut. The Kazan edition of 1880 reprinted with a preface by Cornelia H. Melles (Budapest 1984, pdf, 15Mb)
21st of April 2008
Today I announce the day of Dictionaries. Now you gained access to the following works:
Korean-English Dictionary (Martin, Lee, Chang. 1975; 1902pp)
Comprehensive Japanese-Russian Dictionary (1394 pp., both volumes in 1 file)(pdf, 190Mb)
Kalmyck-Russian dictionary (Muniev eds., 1977; 26000 words) (pdf, 105Mb)
D.Kane. The Sino-Jurchen vocabulary of the Bureau of Interpreters. 1989)pdf, 10Mb)
Etymological dictionary of Turkic languages. Volume 7. 'L, M, N, P, S'
2nd of April 2008
Today will be the Day of Mongolian Grammars. In Mongolian Grammars section one can find:
N.Poppe. Introduction to Mongolian Comparative Studies
Sanzheev G.D. A comparative grammar of Mongolian languages. Verb. (in Russian)
Louis Hambis. Grammaire de la Langue Mongole Écrite (in French)
Chinggeltei. A Grammar of the Mongol Language
Jargal Molomjamts, Andrea Csillaghy. Introduzione alla lingua mongola. Монгол хэлний оршил (corso teorico-pratico) (in Italian)
Todaeva B.Kh. A Grammar of Modern Mongolian. Phonology and Morphology. (in Russian)
and many other works
17th of March 2008.
In Personalia section of my site I've just opened a new page devoted to G.J.Ramstedt. It yet lacks biography data but has a considerable number of selected works of Ramstedt. Now there are the following books and papers of Ramstedt:
'Uber die Konjugation des Khalkha-Mongolischen'; 'Замечания по истории халхасского спряжения'; 'Mogholica. Beitrage zur kenntnis der moghol-sprache in Afghanistan'; 'Uber mongolische pronomina'; 'Сравнительная фонетика монгольского письменного языка и халхасско-ургинского говора'; 'Этимология имени ойрат.'; 'A comparison of the Altaic languages with Japanese'; 'Two words of Korean Japanese'; 'Kleine altaistische Beitrage' 'Reste des Nestorianismus unter den Mongolen'; 'Alte turkische und mongolische Titel'; 'Uber die Stellung des Koreanischen'; 'Uber die Kasusformen des Objekts im Tungusischen'; 'Uber die Struktur der altaischen Sprachen'; 'Uber Stamme und Endungen in den altaischen Sprachen'; 'Uber onomatopoetische Worter in den altaischen Sprachen'; 'Грамматика корейского языка'; 'Введение в алтайское языкознание'.
8th of February 2008.
Happy Oriental New Year. Шинэ жилийн баяр хvргье!
Mr. S.Yu. Nekludov granted to our site his unique records of Geser cycle epics recorded in 1974 in East Mongolia

28th of January 2008. Today in Saint-Petersburg passed away Alexander Scherbak, famous Turkologist and Altaicist.

On Monumenta Altaica there are following books and papers of professor Scherbak:
The Dictionary of Old Turkic (Leningrad, 1969)
А.М.Щербак. О методике исследования языковых параллей (в связи с алтайской гипотезой).
А.М.Щербак. Енисейские рунические надписи. К истории открытия и изучения. //Тюркологический сборник 1970. (pdf, 2Mb)
Щербак А. М. Тюркско-монгольские языковые связи (К проблеме взаимодействия и смешения языков) // Вопросы языкознания, 4, 1986 (pdf, 868 kB)
29th of December 2007

Monumenta Altaica and me, Ilya Gruntov, wish you Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. As a present I give to all of you an access to the famous dictionary of sir G. Clauson 'An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth-Century Turkish' (180Mb, pdf, almost searchable), and to the standard dictionary of Monguor A.de Smedt, A.Mostaert 'Le Dialecte Monguore parlé par les mongols du Kansou occidental. IIIe Partie. Dictionnaire Monguor-Francais' (pdf, 31Mb)

With deep greef we have to inform that on 25th of December in Hamburg passed away an outstanding linguist, uralist and nostratist Eugene Helimski (1950-2007). Many of his works were devoted to the problems of Altaic linguistics:

Once more on the ethnonym „Tungus“.

On the interaction of Mator with Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic: A rejoinder.

Samoyedic loans in Turkic: Check-list of etymologies.

Turco – Samoiedica.

Тунгусоманьчжурский языковой компонент в Аварском каганате и славянская этимология

Proto-Turkic / Early Turkic in its phonetic evolution and its contacts, 1st millenium A.D.

Самодийско-тунгусские лексические связи и их этноисторические импликации.

О двух фонетических законах в алтайских языках.

Происхождение древнетюркского чередования r ~ z и дилемма „ротацизма-зетацизма“.

Решение дилемм пратюркской реконструкции и ностратика.

Об одном диакритическом приеме создания древнетюркского рунического алфавита.

Тюркские лексические раритеты в маторском языке.

Язык(и) аваров: тунгусо-маньчжурский аспект

14th of December 2007

Shevernina Z.V. Complex verbal forms in Modern Mongolian (in Russian). Scanned by Vadim Ponariadov
In Grammar and Dictionary sections Chuvash and Bashkir links were added
10th of December 2007
Ramstedt G.J. Das schriftmongoliche und die Urgamundart. 1903 (pdf, 6Mb)
Scanned by Eugene Debbs.
28th of November 2007,
Kaare Gronbech. The Turkish system of Kinship //(Studia Orientalia Ioanni Pedersen Septuagenario, 1953, pp. 124-129) (Scanned by Neyat Bayramoglu, Turkey)
22nd of November 2007,
Aalto P. 'On the Altaic initial P-*' (CAJ, 1, 1955, pdf, 300K)
Scanned by Eugene Debbs.
21nd of November 2007
Today I'm glad to present the famous paper of sir G. Clauson 'A lexicostatistical appraisal of the Altaic theory.' (1969) (Unfortunately I have only Russian translation available) and the response on that paper published by Louis Ligeti 'La Théorie Altaique et La Lexico-statistique' (1975) (in French)
Both papers are scanned by P.O.Rykin (Saint-Petersburg)
8th of November 2007
We've published a number of papers presented at the International Conference 'Problems of the Historical Development of the Mongolic Languages' (Saint-Petersburg, october 2007)
7th of November 2007
Monuments of Old Japanese: Norito(collection of prayers, 10th century) and Semmyo (collection of edicts, 8th century) in Russian translation with detailed comments ('Oriental Written Monuments' series) (pdf, 3.5 Mb)
5th of September, 2007
Petrova T.I. The Language of Oroks (Ulta) 1967. (pdf, 8 Mb, in Russian, Scanned by V.Goussev)
31st of August, 2007
G.Clauson. The Case Against the Altaic Theory Central Asiatic Journal, 1956
30th of August 2007
Poppe N. Beiträge zur Kenntnis der Altmongolischen Sriftsprache Asia Major 1924. (pdf, 600K)
28th of August 2007
In Middle Mongolian Monuments section there is now well-known publication E.Haenisch. Sino-Mongolische Documente vom Ende des 14 Jahrhunderts (//Abhandlungen der Deutchen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin. Klassen für Sprachen, Literatur und Kunst. Jahrgang 1950 #4). 1952. Akademie-Verlag. Berlin. (pdf, 4Mb).
27th of August 2007
In BOOKS section I present the famous fundamental work of late professor G. Doerfer 'Türkische und Mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen'
24th of August 2007
Poppe N.N. On some ancient mongolian loanwords in Tungus (pdf, 500K)
23rd of August 2007
New links to Mongolian dictionaries
22nd of August 2007
Poppe N. Das Mongolische Sprachmaterial einer Leidener Handschrift (1927)
21st of August 2007
O. A. Mudrak Avar inscription on the vessel of Nagy Sent Miklos treasure (2007, in Russian, pdf, 200K)
20th of August 2007
In 'PAPERS' section I present the article of O.A.Mudrak 'Notes on the language and culture of Danube Bulgar' (2005) (in Russian)
27 июля 2007 Breaking news! Russian Turkologist Committee resumes its activities and kindly asks all the specialists in Turkic languages to send their papers on Turkic linguistics and related issues for publication in on-line journal 'The Russian Turkology' (Editor-in-chief D.Nasilov). All received papers would be peer-reviewed by qualified specialists. You can send your papers to grountov@mail.ru.
27th of July
Before going on my vacation I'd like to present on my site a well known work of a well known scholar
Sir G.Clauson 'Turkish and Mongolian Studies' 1962(pdf, 16Mb)
18th of July
Vasilevich G.M. Evenki-Russian dictionary (25000 entries, 1958) - with appendices and concise grammar of Evenki.
13th of July, 2007
Ki-Moon Lee. A comparative Study of Manchu and Korean (Ural-Altaische Jährbucher XXX, 1958)
6th of July, 2007
Ramstedt G.J. Mogholica//MSFOu XXIII, 1906. (pdf, 2Mb)
27th of June, 2007
Mudrak O. Reconstruction of Proto-Mongolian Vowel System. 1983 (pdf, 11Mb, in Russian)
26th of June, 2007
New book: Dybo A.V. Semantic Reconstruction in the Altaic Etymology. Moscow, 1996 (pdf, 7Mb, in Russian).
15th of June, 2007
Papers of A.Barulin 'Glottogonic theory and Historical linguistics' (2004) и «Towards establishing of Glottogonic Theory» (2007)
23rd of April, 2007
Vasilevich G.M. Evenki /Tungus/ dialects. Leningrad (pdf, 36Mb, 1948)
17th of April, 2007
Thomas Vaughan. A Grammar Of The Turkish Language 1709(pdf, 3Mb)
13th of April, 2007
W.Kotwicz. Studia nad językami ałtajskimi 1953 (Russian Translation, М., 1962 (pdf, 22 Mb)
11th of April, 2007
G.Doerfer. The older Mongolian layer in Ancient Turkic 1993 (pdf, 7Mb, scanned by P.Rykin)
9th of April, 2007 Easter greetings to the readers of my site. An Easter gift to the readers:
G.J.Ramstedt. A comparison of the Altaic languages with Japanese (1924)(pdf, 1Mb)
5th of April, 2007
Poppe N. The Turkic loan words in Middle Mongolian//Central Asiatic Journal, 1955 vol.I, #1(pdf,5Mb)
3rd of April, 2007.
Gerhard Dörfer. The conditions for proving the genetic relationships of languages. The bulletin of the international institute for linguistic sciences Kyoto Sangyo University Vol. II, No. 4 September, 1981 (pdf, 200K)
Although Altaic languages are not in the focus of the present article, one should have in mind that it was written in the context of hot discussions on the status of relationships between Altaic languages, and on the genetic affiliation of Japanese.
2nd of April, 2007.
Update in 'PAPERS' section. Vladimircov. Turkic elements in Mongolian (1911, in Russian).
23rd of March, 2007. The birthday of S.A.Starostin.
Update in 'PAPERS' section. The following turkologic papers (all in Russian) were added (scanned by Pavel Rykin):
   Ashnin F.D. The first printed scholar grammar of Altai. Who was the author?.
  Kononov A.N. The Semantics of Color Terms in Turkic languages
  Kormushin I.V., Nasilov D.M. Biography and works of S.E.Malov
  Chronologic list of S.E.Malov books and papers, and the literature about Malov (compiled by L.Ya.Medvedeva)
  Abramzon S.M. Ethnographic studies of S.E.Malov
  Tenishev E.R. 'S.E.Malov as an investigator of modern Turkic languages'
22nd of March, 2007
Arzhaana Syuryun scanned for our site the Tuvan Grammar. F.G.Iskhakov, A.A.Palmbakh. Grammar of Tuvan. Phonology and Morphology (in Russian)
16th of March 2007
Mr. m Elteber kindly give us scanned copy of the 2nd volume of the famous Kyrgyz-Russian Dictionary of K.K.Yudakhin.
15th of March, 2007
Khakas-Russian Dictionary (14,000 entries) and Khakas Grammar (in Russian) by N.Baskakov, A.Inkizhekova-Grekul, 1953.
9th of March 2007
Mr. m Elteber kindly give us scanned copy of the 1st volume of the famous Kyrgyz-Russian Dictionary of K.K.Yudakhin.
23rd of February, 2007
pdf file of 'Song of the dragons flying in heaven' - first Middle Korean monument
22nd of February, 2007
Prof. Yoshizo Itabashi kindly allowed us to publish his work Are the Old Japanese personal pronouns genetically related to those of the Altaic languages (AOH, 1997, pdf, 3Mb)
15th of February 2007
Tsintsius. V.I. The Language of Negidal (Leningrad 1982). Grammar, Texts, Dictionary
14th of February, 2007
Orthodox priest Fr. Dyonisy Pozdniaev granted to our site 'The Holy Gospel according to Mark' in Manchu language (1822).
13th of February, 2007
Bulatova N.Ya. The Language of Sakhalin Evenki (pdf, 8Mb, in Russian, 1999)
9th of February, 2007
In Turkic dictionaries section the 2nd volume of 'Etymologic Dictionary of Chuvash' (S-Ya) (M.R.Fedotov, 1996. pdf, 22Mb, in Russian).
7th of February, 2007
One of the first grammars of Kalmyk language A.Bobrovnikov. A Grammar of Mongol-Kalmyck language (1849)
2nd of February, 2007
Bertagaev T.A. Internal reconstruction and word etymology in Altaic languages Leningrad, 1971 (in Russian, pdf,1,5Mb)
1st of February, 2007
The list of links to Manchu-Tungus dictionaries was substantially updated
31st of January, 2007
New page about the outstanding specialist in the field of Turkmen linguistics A.P.Poceluevsky
29th of January, 2007
Ikegami J. Über zwei Vokalveränderungen im Mandschurischen (pdf, 1964, 500K)
26th of January, 2007.
Borgoyakov M.I. Development of Cases and their Semantics in Khakas (in Russian, pdf, 7 Mb)
25th of January 2007
the list of links to Japanese dictionaries on-line was substantially updated.
24th of January 2007.
Dear friends of Monumenta Altaica. Many of you have noticed a considerable pause in updating the site. That was due to the important event: I opened a mirror site http://altaica.ru. Now one can download files from Altaica.ru much faster than it has been from Altaica.narod.ru. The perspectives of site development are not exactly determined yet, but undoubtedly the site will grow and improve for your convenience. Both urls will be updated from time to time. You can test the speed of the new mirror by downloading the new book on Altaic: the 1 volume of 'Etymologic Dictionary of Chuvash' (А-R) (M.R.Fedotov, 1996. pdf, 13Mb, in Russian).
29th December of 2006
Happy New Year and Merry Christmas to all the visitors of my site.
Next year I'm going to open the mirror on the faster server, so navigation will be improved, and the speed of file downloading will substantially increase,
My special thanks go for those who helped me with the materials of this site, particularly but not exclusively to the following persons:
Alexander Barulin, Anna Dybo, Lena Gruntova, Elena Kondratieva, Sergei Krylov, Kenesbai Musaev, Oleg Mudrak, Roza Tadinova (Moscow),
Yoshio Saito (Tokyo), Zhargal Badagarov (Ulan-Ude), Ariel Lorencio (Prague),
Valentin Rassadin, Alexander Lidzhiev, Eugene Bembeev (Elista),
Nadezhda Bulatova, Pavel Rykin, Alexander Scherbak, Arzhaana Syuryun (Sanct-Petersburg),
Rustam Abdumanapov (Tomsk), Ihor Burkowski (Kyiv),
December 27th, 2006
Petrova. T.I., System of time designation in Manchu-Tungus peoples (pdf, 1,5Mb, 1937, in Russian)
December 25th, 2006
Rásonyi L. Sur Quelques catégories de noms de personnes en Turc //Acta Orientalia Hung. 1953 (pdf, 2Mb)
December 22nd, 2006
L.M.Gorelova. Manchu-Chinese syntactical parallels //Acta Orientalia Hung. 1997. (pdf, 700K)
December 21st, 2006
In dissertations section I published the text of kalmyck scholar E.Bembeev Bembeev E.V.Linguistic description of Old Kalmyck (Oirat) text: «Story of piligrimage to Tibet country of Maloderbet Baaza-bagshi». (pdf, 1Mb, 2004, searchable, in Russian)
December 20th, 2006
N.Ya.Bulatova. Pronouns in Siberian subgroup of Manchu-Tungusic (pdf, 2.3Mb, 2003, in Russian)
December 19th, 2006
Ki-Moon Lee. Mongolian Loan-Words in Middle Korean. //Ural-Altaische Jahrbüucher 34, 1964 (pdf, 500K)
December 18th, 2006
Ramstedt G.J. Etymology of 'oirat'. // Potanin Festschrift. Sankt-Petersburg, 1909 (pdf, 500K, in Russian)
December 15th, 2006
Myreeva A.N. Some pecularities of Evenki lexicon (pdf, 300K, in Russian)
The paper describes 50 name for different kind of snow in Evenki.
December 14th, 2006
Pritsak Omeljan. On the Tunguz numeral Nadan 'Seven'(pdf, 350K)
December 13th, 2006
Musaev K.M. Syntax of Karaim. (Searchable pdf, 2Mb, 2004, in Russian)
December 12th, 2006
А.М.Scherbak. Yenisei Runic inscriptions. History of discovery and studies. //Turcologichesky sbornik 1970. (pdf, 2Mb, in Russian)
December 11th, 2006
N.Poppe. Über die Bildungssuffixe der mongolischen Bezeichnungen der Körperteile //Ural-Altaische Jahrbücher 45, 1973 (pdf, 1.1 Mb)
December 8th, 2006
New book: Martin S.E. Dagur Mongolian. Grammar, Text, and Lexicon (pdf, 4.8 Mb, 1961)
December 7th, 2006
In the BOOKS section:
Gadzhieva, Serebrennikov. Historical and comparative grammar of Turkic languages. Syntax. Moscow, 1986.
December 6th, 2006
New in the BOOKS section: Tenishev.E.R., Todaeva B.Kh., The language of Yellow Uighurs (pdf, 3.8Mb, 1966, in Russian)
December 5th, 2006
Kara Gyorgy. Long Vowels in Manchu Loanwords of Dagur (pdf, 1985, 600K)
December 4th, 2006
K.H.Menges. Some Tungus Etymologies (pdf, 1985, 400K)
December 1st, 2006
T.Tsumagari. The Phonemic system of Dagur Mongolian (Hailar dialect)(pdf, 500Kb, 1985)
November 30th, 2006
Batmanov I.A. Case functions in Kyrghyz (pdf, 1,5Mb, 1938, in Russian)
November 29th, 2006
Collinder B. Pro Hypothesi Uralo-Altaica (pdf, 300K, 1977)
November 28th, 2006
J.Street. Nominal plural formations in the Secret History (pdf, 2,6Mb, 1990)
November 27th, 2006
T.Tsumagari. A basic vocabulary of Khamnigan and Oluguya Ewenki in Northern Inner Mongolia (pdf, 1,6Mb)
November 24th, 2006
Baskakov N. About Chinese loanwords in Turkic languages (pdf, 585K. In Russian)
November 23rd, 2006
Whitman J. Preverbal elements in Korean and Japanese (pdf, 232KB)
November 22nd, 2006
Kondratjeva E.N. Grammar of predicative in Early New Korean: from Middle Korean to New Korean. PhD 2005 (in Russian) in Dissertations section
November, 21st, 2006
Doerfer G. Der Numerus nach Zahlwörtern im Mandschu. 1957 (pdf, 500Kb).
November, 20th, 2006
G.Clauson. The Turkish Y and Related Sounds (pdf, 1.5 Mb)
July 31st, 2006
N.Poppe 'Plural suffixes in the Altaic languages' 1952
July 29th, 2006.
New paper Doerfer G. Ist Kur-Urmiisch ein nanaischer Dialect?
March 7th, 2006
V.Drimba. Syntaxe Comane (in French) 1973.
N.N.Poppe Zur mittelmongolischen Kasuslehre. Eine syntaktische Untersuchung (In German) pdf, 1.6Mb
Nikolai Baskakov. Altaic language family and Altaic Studies 1981 (in Russian)
B.V. Boldyrev. Category of indirect possession in Tungus languages (in Russian)
L.Levitskaya. Historical morphology of Chuvash (in Russian)

Added: S.A.Starostin - In Memoriam (by A.N.Barulin - in Russian).
February 27, 2006.
Old Turkic - Russian dictionary (Leningrad, 1969; 20,000 words; VIII-XIII centuries)
February 13, 2006.
A dictionary of foreing words in Mongolian by O. Sukhebaatar (in Mongolian)
December 29, 2005.
As a New Year gift you can use now Ozbek-Russian dictionary.
December 15th, 2005
Several volumes of Etymological Dictionary of Turkic Languages (Sevortian et al.)
December 2nd, 2005
New books (all in Russian):
Poppe N. 'The Square Script' 1941 .
Kondratiev 'Old Turkic grammar'. Leningrad., 1981
Baskakov N.A. 'Historical and typological phonology of Turkic languages' Мoscow, 1988
New dictionary
Nanai-Russian Dictionary (12800 words) S.N.Onenko
November 18th, 2005
In Personalia section a new page devoted to Prof. T.A.Bertagaev (1905-1976), a specialist in the field of Mongolian Studies, appeared.
November 17th, 2005.
Prof. S.A.Starostin's Memorial page. In the memory of one of the greatest investigators of Altaic languages.
A Grammar of Korean. G.J.Ramstedt (Russian translation)
Rassadin V.I. Historical phonetics of Buriat
Todaeva B.Kh. Language of the mongols of Inner Mongolia
October 28th, 2005. New books:
Todaeva B.Kh. Baoan language. (In Russian)
Rudnev A.D. Materials on East Mongolia dialects. St.Petersburg 1911 (In Russian)
October 24th, 2005. New papers:
Denis Sinor. Notes on a Turkic word for 'boat'
Zhirmunsky V.M. On the comparative study of the heroic epic of the peoples of Central Asia
Louis Bazin. Les Noms Turcs et Mongols de la constellation des 'Pleiades'
Vladimir Drimba.Remarques sur le parler des caraimes de la Republique Populaire Roumaine
Scherbak. Methods of studying of Language parallels (in regards to Altaic theory). Russian
Sunik O.P. Agglutination in Altaic Languages. (Russian)
Ubriatova E.I. Yakut and its relations with Turkic, Mongolian and Manchu-Tungus languages. (In Russian)
Ulanov A. Buriat version of Geser (in Russian)
Dulzon A.P. Ethnic composition of Ancient Western Siberia inhabitants (in view of toponymics) - In Russian
August 24, 2005. A famous book of Nicholas Poppe 'Introduction to Altaic linguistics' is scanned and web-published
August 24, 2005. New section with links to on-line dissertations and theses on Altaic languages and linguistics .
August 23, 2005. I added more than 40 new papers (all in Russian) on different topics of Altaic Studies.
May 14, 2005. At the page Square script (hPags-pa) you can find the paper of Soviet researcher M.Sofronov 'To the Square Script Studies' (pdf 480Kb)
April 14, 2005 Poppe N.N. Written Mongolian Grammar (in Russian - Moscow, 1937)
March 31, 2005. Comparative dictionary of Manchu-Tungusic Languages. Tsintsius and al.
March 23, 2005. Selected papers from 'Turkic lexicology and lexicographics (Kenesbai Musaev Festschrift)'
February, 10, 2005. Grammar of Literary Manchu by V.Avrorin (pdf, in Russian)
February 9, 2005. Well-known Grammar of Dagur (Dagurskoe narechie) by N.Poppe
February 9, 2005. A number of papers by S.Murayama, A.Dybo, L.Nikolsky, G.Blagova were added.
February 3, 2005. An outline of Khamnigan Grammar. (In Russian)
December, 7, 2004. The famous book of G.I.Ramstedt 'Einführung in die Altaische Sprachwissenschaft. Formenlehre' was put on the site. However, it's only Russian translation.
October 29, 2004. More updates in PAPERS section
October 28, 2004. New paper: Mudrak O.A. Reconstruction of the Prototurkic phonological system (in Russian)
October 26, 2004. Teleut folklore page
October 13, 2004. Facsimile of Leiden Manuscript - 14th century tetraglott dictionary
May 27, 2004. New paper (in Russian): Tenishev E.R. The language of Issyk-kul kalmycks(1976) - pdf, 324kb
May 24, 2004. 4 papers (all in Russian) concerning Turkic and Mongolian languages were added to Papers section. Authors: A.Scherbak, N.Gadzhieva, M.Mollova, V.Zhirmunsky
May 14, 2004. New paper (in Russian): M.Rasanen 'Ural-altaic language relationships'. (pdf, 493kb)
May 13, 2004. New paper (in Russian): O.P.Sunik. Actual problems of Altaistics (1968) - pdf, 211kb
April 23 ^rd 2004. Links to the Korean grammar (in Russian).
Sijo - tercet poems of medieval Korean poet Chon Ch'ol were published on our site.
March 6^th 2004. New paper (in Russian): L.Bold. Historical development of ordinal numerals affixes in Mongolian languages
February 23^rd 2004. Karachay texts with russian translations are published in Modern Texts section
February 6^th 2004. New paper (in Russian): G.C.Purbeev, Mongolian Studies in the Institute of Linguistics of Russian Academy of Sciences: outline of history, problems and main results
January 18^th 2004. New papers (both in Russian): Derbisheva Z.K. National mentality in the mirror of language (Contrastive study of Slavic and Turkic grammar categories)
Derbisheva Z.K. The treatment of grammatical issues in turkish linguistics
27.12.03 Description of Urum dialects by A. Garkavets
21.12.03 Bibliography of Khamnigan language was enlarged
21.12.03 Roerich Y.N. Tibetan loanwords in Mongolian
14.12.03. B.I.Pankratov. Introduction to the facsimile of the Secret History of Mongols (Yuan chao bi shi) (pdf 955Kb)- in Russian.
23.11.03 S.A.Krylov 'G.D.Sanzheev and his contribution to Mongolian studies (in Russian)'
10.07.03 Bibliography of Korean linguistics was radically enlarged
7.06.03 Welcome to the section devoted to the famous Central Asian Geser-Khan epos (yet only in Russian)
• 2.04.03 - We`ve published the introduction from Poppe`s book 'Квадратная письменность' (Die Quadratschrift).
• 16.03.03 - PERSONALIA - A new section containing biographies and bibliographies of outstanding specialists in altaic studies of past and present.
• 15.03.03 - In Papers section you can find Bjorn Collinder` paper 'Uralaltaisch'
7.06.03 Welcome to the section devoted to the famous Central Asian Geser-Khan epos (yet only in Russian)
• 2.04.03 - We`ve published the introduction from Poppe`s book 'Квадратная письменность' (Die Quadratschrift).
• 16.03.03 - PERSONALIA - A new section containing biographies and bibliographies of outstanding specialists in altaic studies of past and present.
• 15.03.03 - In Papers section you can find Bjorn Collinder` paper 'Uralaltaisch'
m • 14.03.03 - Now we can communicate on the FORUM of our website
• 21.12.02 - A link to the Kazakh-Russian dictionary was added. (about 65.000 entries)
• 21.12.02 - V.I.Rassadin 'Turkic elements in the language of the Secret History of Mongols'
• 09.12.02 - V.M.Alpatov 'Why do the Japanese need Gairaigo?'
• 31.11.02 - К. H.Menges 'Zu einigen Problemen der tungusischen Grammatik'
• 30.09.02 - Ethnographic page about Dongxian people and their language (now only in Russian)
• 28.08.02 - texts in Old Korean are now available
• 23.08.02 - Links to the transcription, English translations and glossary of Orkhon turkic runic texts were added
• 21.08.02 - Link to the high quality site devoted to the Shor language was added
• 12.08.02 - The section Papers on altaic linguistics was substantially increased
• 12.08.02 - The mongolian translation of the famous Altan Tovch
12.08.02 A lot of new azeri texts were added
12.08.02 Now medieval Qypchaq texts and epigraphics from Nagy Sent-Miklos are available
4.06.02 Papers on altaic linguistics section has been updated
4.06.02 Russian translation of Manyoushu is now available in the section Manuscripts
4.06.02 We`re glad to introduce a new section on our site Ethnographical and linguistical information about altaic peoples. Now it`s available only in Russian, but soon English version will appear
18.05.02 In the section Turkic Dictionaries Kyrghyz-Russian Dictionary appeared
25.02.02 In the section Old Turkic Monuments Old Uighur texts from Turfan appeared
24.04.02 links to Jurchen documents, Jurchen grammar and Jurchen vocublary (Jurchen version of Hua-i ih-yu) were added
23.04.02 Draft version of the bibliography of Turkic Language Studies appeared.
23.04.02 Brief description of the Stone of the Genghis-Khan (the earliest written monument of mongols) appeared.
19.04.02 You can get access to the French translation of 'The Secret History of Mongols'
19.04.02 Links to Turkmen grammars were added to the section 'grammars'
16.04.02 To the section 'manuscripts' links to Turkic runic inscriptions are added
03.04.02 Many new altaistic links were included
28.03.02 You can get access to the Database of the mongolian part of the famous 15^th century dictionary Muqaddimat al-adab
28.03.02. Now you can read papers about different aspects of the altaic languages
27.03.02 English version of the Secret History Homepage is now available
27.03.02 Mongolian version of the Hua-i ih-yu is available