Radloff's Transcription
Decoding 19th-Century Turkic Pronunciation
Will be published approx. on 25. June 2026
Book
Hardback
172 pages
978-90-04-74689-3 (ISBN)
Description
The book offers a modern analysis of the transcription systems employed by Wilhelm Radloff in his seminal 19th-century works on Turkic languages: Proben der Volksliteratur der tuerkischen Staemme Sued-Sibiriens (1866-1907), Phonetik der noerdlichen Tuerksprachen (1883), and Versuch eines Woerterbuches der Tuerk-Dialecte (1893-1911). Data are arranged in dictionary form, with detailed commentary demonstrating correspondences between characters and analysing Radloff's pronunciation clues, including articulatory descriptions and cross-linguistic comparisons. Each character receives an interpretation in contemporary IPA transcription based on careful consideration of Radloff's views on phonetics in the broader context of the development of linguistic theory.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
416 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-74689-3 (9789004746893)
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Kamil Stachowski, Ph.D. (2014), is an Assistant Professor at the Chair of General and Indo-European Linguistics of the Jagiellonian University. His main fields of interest are Turkic historical-comparative linguistics, etymology, and quantitative linguistics. He is the author or co-author of four books and nearly sixty papers on such topics as Turkic emphatic reduplications, Oriental etymologies of Slavic names for mythological creatures, loanword adaptation, and others.
Mateusz Urban, Ph.D. (2013), is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English Studies of the Jagiellonian University. His scholarly interests focus on phonetics and phonology, particularly from the point of view of language variation and change, as well as the history of phonetic sciences. He is the author of The Treatment of Turkic Etymologies in English Lexicography: Lexemes Pertaining to Material Culture.
Mateusz Urban, Ph.D. (2013), is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English Studies of the Jagiellonian University. His scholarly interests focus on phonetics and phonology, particularly from the point of view of language variation and change, as well as the history of phonetic sciences. He is the author of The Treatment of Turkic Etymologies in English Lexicography: Lexemes Pertaining to Material Culture.