Old Uyghur
| Old Uyghur | |
|---|---|
| Native to | Uyghur Khaganate, Qocho, Ganzhou Uyghur Kingdom |
| Region | Mongolia, Hami, Turpan, Gansu |
| Era | 9th–14th century[1] |
Turkic
| |
| Old Turkic script,[2] Old Uyghur alphabet | |
| Language codes | |
| ISO 639-3 | oui |
oui | |
| Glottolog | oldu1238 |
Old Uyghur (simplified Chinese: 回鹘语; traditional Chinese: 回鶻語; pinyin: Huíhú yǔ) was a Turkic language which was spoken in Qocho from the 9th–14th centuries as well as in Gansu.
History
Old Uyghur evolved from
in the ninth century.The Uyghurs in Turfan and Qomul founded Qocho and adopted Manichaeism and Buddhism as their religions, while those in Gansu first founded the Ganzhou Uyghur Kingdom and became subjects of the Western Xia; their descendants are the Yugurs of Gansu. The Western Yugur language is the descendant of Old Uyghur.[3]
The Kingdom of Qocho survived as a client state of the
The
Features
Old Uyghur had an anticipating counting system and a copula dro, which is passed on to Western Yugur.[5]
Literature
Much of Old Uyghur literature is religious texts regarding Manichaeism and Buddhism,[6] with examples found among the Dunhuang manuscripts. Multilingual inscriptions including Old Uyghur can be found at the Cloud Platform at Juyong Pass and the Stele of Sulaiman.
Script
References
Citations
- ^ "Old Uighur". Archived from the original on 11 August 2011. Retrieved 2024-04-07.
- ISBN 978-3-447-03084-7.
- ^ Clauson 1965, p. 57.
- ^ Arik 2008, p. 145
- ^ Chen et al, 1985
- ^ "西域、 敦煌文献所见回鹊之佛经翻译". Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-05-19. Retrieved 2015-09-07.
- ISBN 81-208-1596-3
Sources
- Arik, Kagan (2008). Austin, Peter (ed.). One Thousand Languages: Living, Endangered, and Lost (illustrated ed.). University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520255609. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
- Chén Zōngzhèn & Léi Xuǎnchūn. 1985. Xībù Yùgùyǔ Jiānzhì [Concise grammar of Western Yugur]. Peking.
- Clauson, Gerard (April 1965). "Review An Eastern Turki-English Dictionary by Gunnar Jarring". The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1/2). Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. JSTOR 25202808.
- Coene, Frederik (8 October 2009). The Caucasus – An Introduction. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-0-203-87071-6.
Further reading
- Tisastvustik; ein in türkischer Sprache bearbeitetes buddhistisches Sutra. I. Transcription und Übersetzung von W. Radloff. II. Bemerkungen zu den Brahmiglossen des Tisastvustik-Manuscripts (Mus. A. Kr. VII) von Baron A. von Stäel-Holstein (1910)
- Kahar Barat (2000). The Uygur-Turkic Biography of the Seventh-Century Chinese Buddhist Pilgrim Xuanzang: Ninth and Tenth Chapters. Indiana University, Research Institute for Inner Asian Studies. ISBN 978-0-933070-46-2.
- Giovanni Stary (1996). Proceedings of the 38th Permanent International Altaistic Conference (PIAC): Kawasaki, Japan, August 7-12, 1995. Harrassowitz Verlag in Kommission. ISBN 978-3-447-03801-0.