|
|
| |
|
|
Ogihara Hirotoshi. Miscellany on the Tumshuqese Documents: Part II // Pis'mennye pamiatniki Vostoka. Vol. 18, no. 3 (46), 2021, pp. 148–159.
The present article is part of the research on Tumshuqese (for Part I see Central Asiatic
Journal, 2020, vol. 63, no. 1–2. pp. 11–24). Among Middle Iranian languages, linguistic research on
Tumshuqese has been much delayed because of the insufficient documentation, and the lack of the
parallel texts written in other languages which leads to the comparative study. However, the secular
documents, especially the contracts, are the most important material for the linguistic study of this
language in view of the fact [1] that Tumshuqese contracts offer the best preserved texts and [2] that
some passages are comparable to the contracts written in other Central Asian languages. In this paper,
an attempt will be made to elucidate following Tumshuqese words attested in the secular documents:
the numerals tshārsa ‘forty’, hodad1a ‘seventy’, sod1u ‘hundred’, dṛd1a- ‘third’ and words of measure
jaha- and khaa- in addition to a noun dau/do ‘gift’. Among them, the numerals tshārsa ‘forty’ and
hodad1a ‘seventy’ are recognized for the first time. Although other words have been more or less
known to scholars, different meaning and/or analysis have been assigned to them.
To PPV, vol. 18, no. 3(46), 2021...
 PDF-files
Full text
Keywords
contracts
Middle Iranian languages
numerals
secular documents
words of measure
|
|
|
|
Random news: Announcements |
|
The 8th All-Russian Conference of Young Orientalists “China and Its Neighbours” jointly organized by the IOM RAS and the Faculty of Asian and African Studies (Saint Petersburg University) will be held on March 2–3, 2023. The conference program is now available. |
|
Read more...
|
|
|
|
|
