Western Mongolian (Oirat-Kalmyk) loanwords in Kyrgyz
The Kyrgyz are one of the Turkic peoples that have had extensive contact with Mongolian tribes throughout history, and their language has one of the largest numbers of loanwords of Mongolian origin. Careful analysis shows that these words were borrowed from several historical Mongolian idioms at va...
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Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University
2024-04-01
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Series: | Orientalia Suecana |
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Online Access: | https://journals.uu.se/orientaliasuecana/article/view/501 |