Overview — Middle Turkic monuments

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Middle Turkic monuments are texts in Turkic languages of the 11th–18th c., written mostly in Arabic script, but also in Uyghur, Armenian and Latin scripts: from Karakhanid literature and the monuments of Khwarezm and the Golden Horde to Chagatay literature of Central Asia, Kipchak texts of the Black Sea region and Mamluk Egypt, and Old Anatolian and Ottoman texts. The section collects editions, facsimiles, translations, dictionaries, grammars and studies that can be downloaded from this site.
Karakhanid monumentsThe literature of the Karakhanid state, 11th–12th c.: Yūsuf Khāṣṣ Ḥājib’s Qutadγu bilig, Maḥmūd al-Kāšγarī’s Dīwān luγāt at-turk, ʿAtabat al-ḥaqāʾiq. (72 works)Chagatay, Khwarezmian and Golden Horde monumentsEastern Middle Turkic writing of the 13th–19th c.: monuments of Khwarezm and the Golden Horde (Rabγūzī, Nahǰ al-farādīs, Muḥabbat-nāme, Quṭb, yarlıqs), Chagatay literature (Alisher Navoi, the Bābur-nāme, Abū l-Ġāzī), the Oγuz-nāme, Eastern Turki of the 19th–early 20th c. (142 works)Kipchak, Mamluk Kipchak and Old Tatar monumentsCodex Cumanicus and Armeno-Kipchak texts; Arabic-Kipchak dictionaries and grammars of Mamluk Egypt and Syria; Old Tatar and other texts of the Volga-Ural region (Qul ʿAlī’s Qïṣṣa-i Yūsuf, šeǰere). (76 works)Old Anatolian and Ottoman monumentsOld Anatolian Turkish (13th–15th c.) and Ottoman: the Book of Dede Qorqut, Yunus Emre, editions of Ottoman texts, dictionaries and grammars. (147 works)Volga Bulgar monumentsThe funerary inscriptions of the Volga Bulgars (13th–14th c.) and the Bulgar language as attested in them and in loanwords; works on the language of the Danube Proto-Bulgarians. (20 works)
Old Turkic runic inscriptions and Old Uyghur texts are in the sections “Old Turkic runic monuments” and “Old Uyghur texts”.
General works on the Middle Turkic languages (10)
- Atwood C.P. (2018). Middle Turkic Dialects as Seen in Chinese Transcriptions from the Mongol Yuan Era. Leiden PDF · 0.36 MB
- Houtsma M.Th. (1888). Die Ghuzenstämme. Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes 2 PDF · 0.68 MB
- Kazem-Beg M. (ed.) (1851). Derbend-Nâmeh, or the History of Derbend. St. Petersburg PDF · 16.78 MB
- Poppe N. (1965). A Middle Turkic Text of the Apostles' Creed. Monumenta Serica 24, 273-306 PDF · 1.98 MB
- Teres. Orta Türkçede zırh, kalkan anlamı taşıyan bazı sözcükler PDF · 0.12 MB
- Благова Г.Ф. (1977). О методике изучения морфологии средневековых тюркских поэтических текстов PDF · 1.2 MB
- Благова Г.Ф. (1979). О принципах лингвистического изучения средневековых тюркских текстов PDF · 0.53 MB
- Благова Г.Ф. (1981). Проблемы лингвистического изучения средневековых тюркских текстов. Тюркологический сборник 1977, М. PDF · 1.77 MB
- Кормушин И.В. Выявление диалектных черт в языке древне- и среднетюркских памятников. Российская тюркология 11 PDF · 0.14 MB
- Тенишев Э.Р. (1979). Языки древне- и среднетюркских письменных памятников в функциональном аспекте PDF · 1.51 MB

Compiled from the library of Monumenta Altaica; only works that can be downloaded from this site are listed, 2026-11.

Middle Turkic monuments

General works on the Middle Turkic languages (10)