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This book, now back in print having been unavailable for many years, is one of the most important contributions to Turkic and Mongolic linguistics, and to the contentious 'Altaic theory'.
C. Edmund Bosworth Introduction 1. The Early History of the Turkish-speaking 2. The Evolution of the Turkish Languages 3. The Transcription of Turkish Languages 4. The arrangement of words in a historical dictionary of Turkish 5. The Evidence regarding the phoenetic structure of pre-eighth century Turkish 6. The structure of the word in pre-eighth century Turkish 7. The suffixes in pre-eighth century Turkish 8. The reconstruction of the phoenetic structure of pre-eighth century Turkish 9. The later history of the Uygur alphabet 10. The phoenetic structure of pre-thirteenth century Mongolian 11. The relationship between Turkish and Mongolian