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  1. Tracing the Earliest Contacts Between Turkic and Yeniseian Languages

    Article • Transactions of the Philological Society, August 2026, Wiley

    Dr. Orçun Ünal

  2. Where Do Old Turkic Words for “Last Year” and “Next Year” Come From?

    Article • International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics, March 2026, De Gruyter

    Dr. Orçun Ünal

  3. How Chuvash Helps Us Reconstruct the Early History of Turkic

    Article • January 2026, University Goettingen

    Dr. Orçun Ünal

  4. August Ahlqvist: Tschuwaschisches Dialektwörterbuch

    Article • Nyelvtudományi Közlemények, December 2025, HUN-REN Nyelvtudományi Kutatóközpont

    Dr. Orçun Ünal

  5. A look at how some Hurrian, Urartian and Turkic words are similar

    Article • Acta Orientalia, July 2025, Akademiai Kiado

    Dr. Orçun Ünal

  6. New Link Found Between Turkic Words 'Boil' and 'Suffer'

    Article • Orientalia Suecana, May 2025, Uppsala University

    Dr. Orçun Ünal

  7. A Simpler Look at How Some Sounds Changed in Early Turkic

    Article • International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics, April 2025, De Gruyter

    Dr. Orçun Ünal

  8. Review of Boeschoten's Dictionary of Early Middle Turkic

    Article • Orientalia Suecana, February 2025, Uppsala University

    Dr. Orçun Ünal

  9. Was the Old Turkic Word for ‘Being Thirsty’ Borrowed from Mongolic?

    Article • Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, February 2025, Uniwersytet Jagiellonski – Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellonskiego

    Dr. Orçun Ünal

  10. The Old Turkic title for 'king' may have a foreign origin

    Article • Turkic Languages, January 2025, Harrassowitz Publishing House

    Dr. Orçun Ünal

  11. Why Some Old Turkic Words Begin with a Vowel and Others with “Y”

    Article • Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, January 2024, Harrassowitz Publishing House

    Dr. Orçun Ünal

  12. Etymology of the Common Turkic verb elt- ‘to carry, to bring’

    Article • Central Asiatic Journal, January 2024, Harrassowitz Publishing House

    Dr. Orçun Ünal

  13. A Contribution to the Old Uyghur Lexicon: katıt ‘wife, woman’

    Article • International Journal of Old Uyghur Studies, December 2023, International Journal of Old Uyghur Studies

    Dr. Orçun Ünal

  14. A Mongolic loanword in Turkic and Korean

    Article • International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics, December 2023, Brill

    Dr. Orçun Ünal

  15. Scythian Roots for Mysterious Carian Words

    Article • Hacettepe Üniversitesi Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi (HÜTAD), December 2023, Hacettepe Journal of Biology and Chemistry

    Dr. Orçun Ünal

  16. New Words Shared Between Ancient Turkic and Samoyedic Languages

    Article • Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen, November 2023, Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen

    Dr. Orçun Ünal

  17. A consonantal sound change in Late Proto-Turkic

    Article • International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics, February 2023, Brill

    Dr. Orçun Ünal

  18. On the Proto-Turkic */d₂/ and Mongolic *<em>uda-</em> ‘to be late’

    Article • Orientalia Suecana, January 2023, Uppsala University

    Dr. Orçun Ünal

  19. Tracing a Turkic Word for 'Divination' and its Prehistoric Cultural Impact

    Article • Turkic Languages, January 2023, Harrassowitz Publishing House

    Dr. Orçun Ünal

  20. Tocharian B 'Mule' More Likely from Turkic 'Donkey' than Iranian 'Horse'

    Article • International Journal of Old Uyghur Studies, December 2022, International Journal of Old Uyghur Studies

    Dr. Orçun Ünal

  21. BATI OĞUZ TÜRKÇESİNDEKİ YARDIMCI /Y/ SESİNİN KÖKENİ ÜZERİNE

    Article • Selçuk Üniversitesi Türkiyat Araştırmaları Dergisi, January 2021, Selcuk University Journal of Seljuk Studies

    Dr. Orçun Ünal

  22. KÜL TEGİN VE BİLGE KAĞAN YAZITLARI’NDA GEÇEN otča bwrča İFADESİ ÜZERİNE

    Article • Gazi Türkiyat, December 2020, Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli Üniversitesi - Türkiyat Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi

    Dr. Orçun Ünal

  23. Words of Turkic Origin in the Vocabulary of Written and Middle Mongol I (A–D)

    Article • Journal of Old Turkic Studies, June 2019, Journal of Old Turkic Studies

    Dr. Orçun Ünal

  24. Çuvaş Türkçesi Pĕśĕ “Uyluk, Bacak” Kelimesinin Etimolojisi Üzerine

    Article • Modern Türklük Araştırmaları Dergisi/Journal of Modern Turkish Studies, February 2019, Ankara University

    Dr. Orçun Ünal

  25. Türkçe Üçüncü Tekil Şahıs İyelik Ekinin ve Pronominal /N/ Sesinin Kökeni Üzerine

    Article • Journal of Turkish Research Institute, January 2019, Ataturk Universitesi Guzel Sanatlar Fakultesi: Sanat Dergisi

    Dr. Orçun Ünal

  26. The Needle Case of Jánoshida Revisited

    Article • Archiv orientální, September 2013, Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences

    Dr. Orçun Ünal