i. The people MONGOLS, an Altaic people whose home lay in the east of the modern republic of Mongolia, and…

HUTH, GEORG, German Indologist, Tibetologist, Tugusologist, Mongolist, and the founder of Tibetology as a field of research at German universities…

DOERFER, GERHARD (b. Königsberg, 8 March 1920; d. Göttingen, 27 December 2003), German scholar of Turkic, Mongolian, and Tungus languages….

TURKIC LANGUAGES OF PERSIA: AN OVERVIEW Only in few other regions (Caucasus and Southern Siberia) one can find a nearly…

TURKMENS OF PERSIA ii. LANGUAGE The Turkmens inhabit an extensive area which stretches from the northwest of Kazakhstan and the…

MONGOLS ii. MONGOLIAN LOANWORDS IN PERSIAN It is difficult to analyze Mongolian elements in Persian separately from the Turkic ones….

TURKIC LOANWORDS IN PERSIAN Turkic-Iranian language contacts, as well as reciprocal loaning/borrowing of words, go back to the era of…

QAŠQĀʾI TRIBAL CONFEDERACY ii. LANGUAGE Qašqāʾi is a language of southwestern or Oghuz (see ḠOZZ) branch of Turkic languages, spoken…

ḴALAJ ii. ḴALAJI LANGUAGE The speakers of Khalaj settle approximately 250 km to the southwest of Tehran. In the 1960s…