Memoires

New English Paperback. Cr. 8vo. (21 x 14 cm). In English and Turkish. 175, [1] p., 2 folding color maps (Administrative map of the Russian Federation and Administrative map of the Tuvan Republic), [64] p. 1000 copies were printed. Clauson's letters. When and where did the Turks first emerge? Who were the neighbours of the Turks when they first emerged in Central Asia, what was the contacts an interactions of the Turks with them like? Was Old Turkish related to Mongolian and Manchu-Tungus? What was the origin of the Old Turkish alphabet, and when, where, how and by whom was it invented? While reading the letters of Sir Gerard Clauson, the famous English Turkologist and author of An Etymological Dictionary of Pre-Thirteenth Century Turkish, the most comprehensive etymological dictionary of Old Turkish, to the Russian Turkologist and Tuva expert Leonid Potapov, you will also find Clauson's answers to these questions.