The Ethnonym Kazakh in Four Languages (Mongolian, Kazakh, Chinese and Russian): Spelling Variants Revisited

Introduction. Kazakhs are a Turkic people dominant in present-day Republic of Kazakhstan. The former also reside in adjacent territories of China, Russia, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, and Turkey. Ancient written sources employed quite a number of ethnonyms — including the endonym қазақ (Qazaq) — to denote...

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Main Author: Narmandakh Gombyn
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Российской академии наук, Калмыцкий научный центр 2020-11-01
Series:Монголоведение
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Online Access:https://mongoloved.kigiran.com/jour/article/view/532/422