Modern Turkic Languages. An Introduction with Accompanying Audio [keménytáblás]

Modern Turkic Languages is an introduction to the field of Turkic studies designed and written for teaching purposes. The book may be useful to a broader readership, including general linguists and linguists specializing in languages other than Turkic.

After a general introduction and classification of the Turkic languages, the twenty-eight main chapters of the book provide various kinds of information about the entire family. Apart from its concise presentation of language-specific features and text materials in the original orthography, the book has two unique features that are not available in other publications. First, it provides transcriptions and interlinear glosses of the language samples, secondly, each sample is accompanied by an audio file that brings the ‘dead’ letters of the book to life. This rich collection of audio files is the first of its kind and provides a plethora of opportunities for linguistic analyses and classroom discussions.

László károly is Professor of Turkic languages at Uppsala University. His main research interests are the Turkic runiform inscriptions of Eurasia, Middle Turkic, Siberian Turkic, and word-formation. His special passion is the history of medicine among the Turks, especially as it developed and was shaped in Central Asia under the influence of Graeco-Islamic medicine.