STUDIA ORIENTALIA 87 (1999)

STUDIA ORIENTALIA 87 (1999) Writing in the Altaic World Edited by Juha Janhunen and Volker Rybatzki
Contents
Preface List of Participants		9 13
A new approach to the Romanization of Written Mongol Michael Balk & Juha Janhunen		17
Morphological aspects of the language of the Jurchen script A. A. Burykin		29
Orthographical traditions among the Tatar minority in Finland Okan Daher		41
Geser Boyda-yin Sang: A little-known Buryat-Mongolian sutra Bayir Dugarov		49
The acceptance of the Latin alphabet in the Turkish World Ahmet B. Ercilasun		63
The beginning of Runic studies in Turkey Bilge Ercilasun		71
Korean Hankul and the hP'ags-pa script Roger Finch		101
Scriptal environment in Mongolia Stéphane Grivelet		101
Baron Mannerheim's hunt for ancient Central Asian manuscripts Harry Halén		109
Four morphs and a matrix Richard W. Howell		117
On contraction in Mongolian hP'ags-pa documents Wu Hugjiltu		123
The romanization of early Manchu regnal names Kam Tak-sing		133
Das arabische Alphabet und die Türkische Sprache Zeynep Korkmaz		149
Seventy years of Khitan Small Script studies Liu Fengzhu		159
Writing on man or animal Ruth I. Meserve		171
Haslund's «Toregut Rarelro» rediscovered Hidehiro Okada		187
Kalmyk history and traditions as reflected in Oirat manuscripts Ellara Omakaeva Tamara Esenova & Nina Kokshaeva		195
The Manchu script reform of 1632: New data and new questions Tatiana A. Pang		201
Punctuation rules in the Tonuquq inscription? Volker Rybatzki		207
The magic of writing-edible charms Alice Sárközi		227
Inverted syntax in early Turkish texts Wolfgang-E. Scharlipp		235
Manchu names and some problems concerning their transcription Giovanni Stary		245
The importance of writing in the Central Asian Manichaean milieu Alois van Tongerloo		253
Some novelties of the Runica Bulgarica Edward Tryjarski		263
Eine kaiserliche Siegelsammlung in chinesischer und mandjurischer Sprache Hartmut Walravens		275
Datenbasen für Türkische Runeninschriften: Epitaphische Epigraphik aus Südsibirien D. D. Wassiljew		299
Was Chinggis Khan literate? David C. Wright		305
Script, language, and narration in Old Turkic texts Jitka Zamrazilová-Jakmyr		313
Das Qianziwén bei den alten Uiguren Peter Zieme		321