Lexicity/Old Turkic
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Old Turkic
Dictionaries
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| Altaic Etymological Database | There are multiple Turkish languages included here. |
| Discussion of the Old Turkic Lexicon | The link is to a PDF file--see page 23 for a discussion of the history of dictionaries and lexicons for Old Turkic. Unfortunately, there isn't a source which unites all the lexical information we have. |
| Basic Turkic Words | A list of words from various categories. |
| Old Turkic-Kazakh Dictionary | So unless you know Kazakh... |
| Old Turkic-Russian Dictionary | Downloadable PDFs separated by letters. |
| English-Old Turkic Dictionary | Very small. As in, there's maybe 20 entries. |
Grammars
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| A Grammar of Old Turkic | Over 500 pages--if you're serious about the language, this is the place to go! Note that this book is available all over the internet. |
| Learn Turkic! | Media tutorials, alphabet stuff, and other information to learn. |
| Old Turkic Writing System | From Omniglot. |
| Old Turkic Alphabet | From Wikipedia. |
Charts & Aids
(Nothing here.)
Texts
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| VATEC database | There's an English search engine here, and a nearly 900-page PDF (!) of the texts gathered together, it seems. |
| Turik Bitig | Old Turkic inscriptions, from a variety of different locations. |
| Orhun Yazitlari | Inscriptions with Latin transcriptions; you can use Google Translate here, and click the links in the menu bar at the top to get to other inscriptions. |
Other Resources
| Resource | Description |
|---|---|
| Turkic World | A site for the history and culture of Turkey. |
| Old Turkic Font | You'll need it for viewing the blogs below. |
| Old Turkic Script and Runes | A possible connection? Check it out here. |
| Turkic Text Converter | For going between Latin-based languages and Turkic; hard to use, though. |
| List of Old Turkic Articles | They're all in Turkish, it looks like. |
| Turkic Keyboard | Click "help" if you haven't installed the font yet! |
| Turkish Language Instruction in the US | A list of universities that offer courses. |
| Lexical-Semantic Analysis of the Ancient Turkic Place Names | An article published in 2013. |
| Old Turkic Tumblr | There's actually a lot of interesting stuff on here, which is surprising. |
| Gokbeyuluc Blog | You'll need to have the font installed to view this blog properly. |
| Fankibiber Blog | Same here--you'll need the font for this blog to work properly. |
| Kokturukce Blog | Once again, you'll need the right font for this one. |
| Gokturkce | Another site written in Turkish--Google Translate in the browser can fix it! |