Bargut xix, 104, 180, 184, 365–6, 373, 377–8
Bashkir 411–12
basic vocabulary 28, 191, 226, 304, 344,
367, 403, 415
Bayangol 211
Bayit 211
Beitan 265
Bei Wei see Northern Wei
bilingualism 32, 83–6, 100, 102, 129–30,
152, 178, 180, 190, 227, 230, 304, 307,
344, 413
binomes 55
Black Khitan 406
block prints see xylographic publications
Bodic 307, 316, 365
Bokhan 104
Bonan xvii, xviii, xix, xx, 9, 12, 27, 28, 31,
265, 286, 302, 307, 310, 322, 325–45,
347–8, 353, 356, 360, 364–73, 375–89
Boro Balghasun 193
Bortala 211
Börü Bashi 211
Borzya 83
Brahmi script 58, 409
breaking see vowel breaking
British missionaries 34
Buddhism 32–5, 54, 80, 102, 174, 193, 201,
210, 226–7, 229, 287, 307, 325–6, 344
Buddhist sources 58–9, 73–4, 77, 226–7
Bulaghat 104
Bulgharic see Bulghar Turkic
Bulghar Turkic 28, 405, 407–10, 415–16;
see also Proto–Bulgharic
Bulghar Turks 405–6, 410
Buryabaf-Manuscript 250
Buryat xvii, xviii, xxi, 5, 6, 25, 27, 31–2,
42, 50, 53, 83–6, 92, 96–7, 99, 102–28,
145, 154, 156, 180, 182–4, 186–7,
189–90, 221, 225, 229, 231–2, 347,
365–75, 377–88, 412–15, 417
Buryatia, Republic of xvii, 102, 364
Busawa 229
Buteha see Butha
Butha Dagur 129, 132, 141
Caspian region xvi–xvii, 229, 364
casus indefinitus 67
Catholic missionaries 287–8
causative constructions 121, 123, 138–9,
171–2, 358–9
Central Asia xvi, xviii, 263, 346, 393, 406,
411–12
Central Asian Turkic 407, 413, 417
Central Eurasia 403
centralization 155, 158–9, 266, 289
Central Mongolic 193, 366–7, 388
Chaghatai Turkic 31, 411, 417
chaining see clause chaining
Chakhar 179–81, 185, 189–90, 365–7,
370, 386
Chelpek 211
Chibchin 104
Chifeng 178, 395
China xvi, xvii, xviii, xix, 31–4, 83, 85,
102, 129, 177–8, 180, 193, 211, 230,
265–6, 286–7, 307–8, 316, 325, 346–7,
395, 405, 413
China, People’s Republic of xix, 346
Chinese xvii, 6, 10, 28, 31, 32–3, 35, 38–9,
47, 54–5, 58–9, 86, 91, 99, 127, 129–30,
133, 151–2, 157–8, 174, 178, 180, 186,
189–90, 193–5, 197, 230, 265, 267, 269,
284, 286, 288–92, 294, 304, 307–11, 314,
318, 320–22, 325, 328–9, 334, 337,
343–4, 347, 349–56, 360–2, 365, 375,
378–9, 384, 386, 388, 394, 398, 400, 411
Chinese script 30, 36, 58–60, 68–9, 73,
392, 395–6, 399
Chinese sources see dynastic histories
Chinggis Khan xvi, 1–3, 30–1, 33, 57, 83,
210, 248, 391
Christianity 34, 102
Chulym Turkic 412–14
Chuvash 405, 408–12
Classical Arabic 31
Classical Chinese 31
Classical Mongol 32
Classical Tibetan 31
Classical Written Mongol 32–3, 37, 39, 42,
45–54, 57, 61, 78, 80–1
classifiers see numeral classifiers
class suffixes see nominal classes
clause chaining 206–7
Clear Script see Oirat script
cliticization 160, 252, 259, 295, 303, 378;
see also enclitic particles/pronouns
coaffixes 15
codeswitching 307
Codex Cumanicus 411
Common Mongolic 3, 6–16, 19, 22, 24–5,
27, 43, 49, 64, 69, 72–4, 76, 89–90,
92–3, 95, 108, 110, 112–14, 116–17,
119, 144–5, 163–6, 174, 182, 186,
190, 196, 198, 203–5, 212–13, 215,
219, 221, 223–6, 230, 233–4, 236–7,
240–1, 243, 254, 259–60, 262, 269,
272–7, 279, 282–3, 290–1, 294–5,
297–302 , 304, 310—16, 318, 323,
422 INDEX