Research Article

SOME THOUGHTS ON THE OLD UIGHUR DOCUMENT U 5933 (CONTRIBUTIONS TO MORIYASU 2019)

Number: 109 March 31, 2022
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SOME THOUGHTS ON THE OLD UIGHUR DOCUMENT U 5933 (CONTRIBUTIONS TO MORIYASU 2019)

Abstract

There were also private letters among the Uighur manuscripts in the Thousand Buddha Caves in Dunhuang. It is seen that these letters have different contents from daily human relations to working life, from commerce to state administration. There are more than two hundred letters belonging to the Old Uighurs from different times. This study consists of presenting a document which is only given the text and translation of it in the doctoral thesis I have prepared on the Old Uighur letters and their vocabulary, and announcing updated information and comments about the document. The document mentioned, read and interpreted in this study is a letter and it is preserved in the Turfan Collection of the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften as U 5933 (T M 84 = COUL no. 172). This document was first examined by P. Zieme in 1975 and later by J. Wilkens in 2000. Finally, this document was discussed in T. Moriyasu’s Corpus, which brought together Old Uighur private letters in 2019. I agree with Moriyasu’s opinion which he expressed as “I cannot understand the reason why Zieme and Wilkens regard it as a writing by a Manichaean”, and here I propose some justifications in support of this view. I also offer some new reading and interpretation suggestions for this document.

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Details

Primary Language

English

Subjects

Linguistics

Journal Section

Research Article

Publication Date

March 31, 2022

Submission Date

February 12, 2022

Acceptance Date

March 20, 2022

Published in Issue

Year 2022 Number: 109

APA
Arslan, H. Ç. (2022). SOME THOUGHTS ON THE OLD UIGHUR DOCUMENT U 5933 (CONTRIBUTIONS TO MORIYASU 2019). Türkoloji, 109, 9-19. https://izlik.org/JA39SE64TJ
AMA
1.Arslan HÇ. SOME THOUGHTS ON THE OLD UIGHUR DOCUMENT U 5933 (CONTRIBUTIONS TO MORIYASU 2019). Türkoloji. 2022;(109):9-19. https://izlik.org/JA39SE64TJ
Chicago
Arslan, Hüsnü Çağdaş. 2022. “SOME THOUGHTS ON THE OLD UIGHUR DOCUMENT U 5933 (CONTRIBUTIONS TO MORIYASU 2019)”. Türkoloji, nos. 109: 9-19. https://izlik.org/JA39SE64TJ.
EndNote
Arslan HÇ (March 1, 2022) SOME THOUGHTS ON THE OLD UIGHUR DOCUMENT U 5933 (CONTRIBUTIONS TO MORIYASU 2019). Türkoloji 109 9–19.
IEEE
[1]H. Ç. Arslan, “SOME THOUGHTS ON THE OLD UIGHUR DOCUMENT U 5933 (CONTRIBUTIONS TO MORIYASU 2019)”, Türkoloji, no. 109, pp. 9–19, Mar. 2022, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA39SE64TJ
ISNAD
Arslan, Hüsnü Çağdaş. “SOME THOUGHTS ON THE OLD UIGHUR DOCUMENT U 5933 (CONTRIBUTIONS TO MORIYASU 2019)”. Türkoloji. 109 (March 1, 2022): 9-19. https://izlik.org/JA39SE64TJ.
JAMA
1.Arslan HÇ. SOME THOUGHTS ON THE OLD UIGHUR DOCUMENT U 5933 (CONTRIBUTIONS TO MORIYASU 2019). Türkoloji. 2022;:9–19.
MLA
Arslan, Hüsnü Çağdaş. “SOME THOUGHTS ON THE OLD UIGHUR DOCUMENT U 5933 (CONTRIBUTIONS TO MORIYASU 2019)”. Türkoloji, no. 109, Mar. 2022, pp. 9-19, https://izlik.org/JA39SE64TJ.
Vancouver
1.Hüsnü Çağdaş Arslan. SOME THOUGHTS ON THE OLD UIGHUR DOCUMENT U 5933 (CONTRIBUTIONS TO MORIYASU 2019). Türkoloji [Internet]. 2022 Mar. 1;(109):9-19. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA39SE64TJ