Old Turkic
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Dictionaries
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- Notes: There are multiple Turkish languages included here.
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Discussion of the Old Turkic Lexicon
- Format: PDF
- Notes: 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.
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- Notes: A list of words from various categories.
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- Notes: So unless you know Kazakh…
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- Format: PDF
- Notes: Downloadable PDFs separated by letters.
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- Notes: Very small. As in, there’s maybe 20 entries.
Grammars
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- Format: PDF
- Notes: 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.
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- Notes: Media tutorials, alphabet stuff, and other information to learn.
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- Notes: From Omniglot.
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- Notes: From Wikipedia.
Charts & Aids
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Texts
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- Format: PDF
- Notes: There’s an English search engine here, and a nearly 900-page PDF (!) of the texts gathered together, it seems.
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- Notes: Old Turkic inscriptions, from a variety of different locations.
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- Notes: 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
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- Notes: A site for the history and culture of Turkey.
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- Notes: A possible connection? Check it out here.
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- Notes: For going between Latin-based languages and Turkic; hard to use, though.
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- Notes: They’re all in Turkish, it looks like.
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- Access: Font
- Notes: Click “help” if you haven’t installed the font yet!
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Turkish Language Instruction in the US
- Format: PDF
- Notes: A list of universities that offer courses. Lexical-Semantic Analysis of the Ancient Turkic Place Names An article published in 2013.
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- Notes: There’s actually a lot of interesting stuff on here, which is surprising.
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- Notes: Same here—you’ll need the font for this blog to work properly.
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- Access: Font
- Notes: Once again, you’ll need the right font for this one.
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- Notes: Another site written in Turkish—Google Translate in the browser can fix it!
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