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

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

    Dr. Orcun Unal

  2. August Ahlqvist: Tschuwaschisches Dialektwörterbuch

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

    Dr. Orcun Unal

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

    Article • Acta Orientalia, July 2025, Akademiai Kiado

    Dr. Orcun Unal

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

    Article • Orientalia Suecana, May 2025, Uppsala University

    Dr. Orcun Unal

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

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

    Dr. Orcun Unal

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

    Article • Orientalia Suecana, February 2025, Uppsala University

    Dr. Orcun Unal

  7. Old Turkic us- 'to be thirsty': Likely a borrowing from Mongolic

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

    Dr. Orcun Unal

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

    Article • Turkic Languages, January 2025, Harrassowitz Publishing House

    Dr. Orcun Unal

  9. 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. Orcun Unal

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

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

    Dr. Orcun Unal

  11. 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. Orcun Unal

  12. A Mongolic loanword in Turkic and Korean

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

    Dr. Orcun Unal

  13. Scythian Roots for Mysterious Carian Words

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

    Dr. Orcun Unal

  14. New Words Shared Between Ancient Turkic and Samoyedic Languages

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

    Dr. Orcun Unal

  15. A consonantal sound change in Late Proto-Turkic

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

    Dr. Orcun Unal

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

    Article • Orientalia Suecana, January 2023, Uppsala University

    Dr. Orcun Unal

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

    Article • Turkic Languages, January 2023, Harrassowitz Publishing House

    Dr. Orcun Unal

  18. 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. Orcun Unal

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

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

    Dr. Orcun Unal

  20. 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. Orcun Unal

  21. 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. Orcun Unal

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

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

    Dr. Orcun Unal

  23. 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. Orcun Unal

  24. The Needle Case of Jánoshida Revisited

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

    Dr. Orcun Unal