37.2004, Books: Radloff's Transcription: Stachowski and Urban (2026)

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Date: 04-Jun-2026
From: Rosanna Woensdregt [rosanna.woensdregt at degruyterbrill.com]
Subject: Radloff's Transcription: Stachowski and Urban (2026)


Title: Radloff's Transcription
Subtitle: Decoding 19th-Century Turkic Pronunciation
Series Title: Languages of Asia
Publication Year: 2026

Publisher: De Gruyter Brill
           https://www.degruyterbrill.com/?changeLang=en
Book URL: https://brill.com/display/title/73384

Author(s): Kamil Stachowski and Mateusz Urban

ISBN hardback: 978-90-04-74689-3
ISBN E-book (PDF): 978-90-04-74691-6 (open access)
DOI: 10.1163/9789004746916

Abstract:

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 türkischen Stämme
Süd-Sibiriens (1866–1907)", "Phonetik der nördlichen Türksprachen
(1883)," and "Versuch eines Wörterbuches der Türk-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.
Readsership: A focused audience of specialists in Turkic studies,
historians of Turkic languages, readers of Radloff’s work, and
scholars of phonetics and linguistic history interested in
19th‑century Turkic pronunciation and Radloff’s theoretical context.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     History of Linguistics
                     Lexicography
                     Phonetics
                     Phonology

Subject Language(s): Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928) (ota)

Language Family(ies): Turkic
                      West Oghuz

Written In: English (eng)



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