What is it about?
My paper is about a book which describes and edits Buddhist Old Turkic manuscripts from the Silk Road, where Indian, Chinese and Western cultures and religions met in the Middle Ages and created a fused culture.
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Why is it important?
These particular manuscripts are written in Brahmi or in Tibetan writing, which shows Old Turkic pronunciation very well. In this way they make a very important contribution to our knowledge of Old Turkic.
Perspectives
Old Turkic is not a fully deciphered language; our knowledge about this language is growing every day, and this also helps us understand the history of the Turkic group of languages as a whole.
Marcel Erdal
Goethe-Universitat Frankfurt am Main
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This page is a summary of: Maue, Dieter (Hg.): Alttürkische Handschriften Teil 19. 2015., Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, January 2017, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/olzg-2017-0063.
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