Lingvodoc Platform to Process Dictionaries of Old Kalmyk: Preliminary Results Reviewed by Saglara V. Mirzaeva, Aisa O. Doleeva

“…Meanwhile, the study of such sources shall make it possible to describe the process of development — in a diachronic aspect — of the Kalmyk (Oirat) language which has been isolated from other Mongolic languages in differing ethnic and cultural environments of European Russia. …”
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The Grateful Dead: Motif of Assistant in Kalmyk Folktales of AT Type 508 by Baira B. Goryaeva

“…Possessions of Erlik Nomin Khan — the lord of the dead — are depicted in accordance with ideas of Buddhist hell traced in Oirat written monuments, such as The Story of Chojid-Dagini, The Tale of Molon-Toyin, The Tale of the Goose-Lama, The Tale of Naranu Gerel etc. …”
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Legal Procedure in the Monuments of Traditional Mongolian Law, 16th –18th Centuries: An Attempted Comparative Legal Analysis by Roman Yu. Pochekaev

“…The sources for research are late medieval Mongolian legal codifications: the Code of Altan Khan, ruler of Tumet in Southern Mongolia (c. 1588), Eighteen Steppe Laws established at conferences of Khalkha rulers between the 1580s and 1620s, ‘Ik Tsaaz’ (‘The Great Code’) issued at the Congress of Oirat and Mongol princes in 1640 with additional edicts of the Zunghar ruler Galdan Boshugtu Khan in the 1670s and, finally, ‘Khalkha Jirum’ (‘The Code of Khalkha’) issued from 1709 to 1770 by conferences of rulers of the Northern Mongolia. …”
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