Yiyu 譯語 (Beilu yiyu 北虜譯語) : an indexed critical edition of a sixteenth-century Sino-Mongolian glossary
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Yiyu 譯語 (Beilu yiyu 北虜譯語) : an indexed critical edition of a sixteenth-century Sino-Mongolian glossary
(Languages of Asia series, v. 5)
Global Oriental, 2009
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Yiyu : an indexed critical edition of a sixteenth-century sino-mongolian glossary
Yiyu : an indexed critical edition of a 16th century sino-mongolian glossary
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-227)
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The Yiyu (Beilu yiyu) - a Chinese-Middle Mongol glossary included in the Dengtan Bijiu (a military handbook for generals compiled during the Wanli period of the Ming dynasty) - is an important source regarding the history of the Mongolian language. The manuscript version of Yiyu is a copy made for Louis Ligeti on his first expedition to China (1928-31) and is now conserved by the Oriental Collection of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
In his edition the author reconstructs the often chaotic material of the Yiyu with the help of other available Yiyu texts. Next to its contribution in transcription and reconstruction, this work is indispensable in terms of linguistic analysis, dealing with much investigated issues of Middle Mongol (e.g. suffixes, unstable -n nouns, representation of the initial h-, loanwords in the lexicon, lack or presence of intervocalic velar fricatives etc.).
A full word index, a classical Mongolian reference wordlist and four other indexes are included in this edition as well as the facsimile photocopies of both the manuscript and a block print version of the glossary.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- 1 Yiyu
- 2 Some typical linguistic features of Blyy
- 3 Specialities and errata of the transcription process
- Transcription and reconstruction
- Index of words
- List of uninterpreted and problematic words
- Index of transcriptive characters
- Phonetic value of transcriptive characters
- Index of suffixes
- Index of written Mongolian Equivalents
- Bibliography
- Facsimile of HAS Manuscript (Oriental Collection. Mong. No. 44)
- Facsimile of PUL Blockprint (Shanben Tezang Yuelansh (Collection of Rare and Special Books) No.9060)
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