Turks, historical 405–6; see also Türk
Tuva 102, 227, 404, 411–14, 416–17
Tuva region 407
typology xx, 287, 294, 307–8, 364, 367,
393, 400, 415, 417–18
Ubsu 211
Üc Qurïqan see Kurykan Turks
Üdzümüchin 179, 181
Uighur, ancient 10, 28, 30, 32, 35–6, 40,
54, 58, 80–1, 174, 265, 394, 406, 410–11
Uighur, modern 227, 411–12, 417
Uighur-Mongol script 32, 34–5, 229
Uighur script 30, 36, 42, 57–61, 63–4, 67,
70–1, 73, 79, 394
Ulan Bator 154–5, 177, 184, 187
Ulan Tsab 178–80, 184, 190, 372
umlaut see palatal umlaut
underdifferentiation 40–4, 63
Unga 104
Ural–Altaic xix, 404
Uralic xix, xx, 391, 405
Ural region 229
Urat 179, 193
Urdus see Ordos
Urulga 85–6, 374
Urulyungui 83
Uryankhai 211, 220
Ust’-Orda District 102, 104
Üüsin 193
uvularization 231
Uzbek 411–12, 417
valence 121, 198, 294
velarization 8, 86, 159, 187, 289
verbalization 79, 135, 198, 269, 294,
332, 352
verba meteorologica 121
verticalization of script 36
vocabularies 59–60, 84
voice 10, 65, 136, 162, 215–16, 234, 269,
353, 357, 417
voicing 105, 157, 214, 291, 329
Volga region 210, 229, 366, 405, 407, 411
Volgograd 229
vowel breaking 4–5, 9, 43, 61, 133, 185–6,
212, 289; see also labial/palatal breaking
vowel contraction 7, 131, 185, 188, 195,
213, 231–2, 290, 349, 371, 398, 414
vowel elision 89, 106, 110, 134–5, 183,
187, 197, 267, 292–3
vowel harmony xxi, 8, 10, 13, 18, 44, 46,
50–1, 63–4, 73, 86–8, 90, 96, 107–8, 112,
134, 141, 148, 159–61, 165, 183, 194,
197, 201–2, 213, 216–19, 232, 253, 268,
292, 309, 330, 351, 367–8, 400, 409
vowel metathesis 183
vowel raising 266
vowel reduction 9, 15, 62, 107, 156, 158–9,
181, 185, 188, 213, 219, 231–2, 266, 328,
351, 371–2, 398, 408–9
vowel rotation 8, 86, 105, 131, 134, 155,
159, 184, 187–8, 197, 212, 230, 368–70,
398, 400
vowel shift 169
vPhags.pa Monk 58
vPhags.pa script 30–1, 57–8, 60, 63, 68, 73
Wanderwörter 410
Wang 193
Wangji 347, 349, 351
Western Buryat 102–6, 126–7, 182, 364–5,
368–9, 371, 373, 376, 379, 385, 387,
413, 415
Western Middle Mongol 62–3, 70, 212, 385
Western Mongolic 221, 225, 229, 283,
365–7 , 417
Western Mongols 210
Western Yughur 265–6; see also Sarygh
Yughur
women’s language 227
word order 26, 53, 71–2, 78, 97–8, 119,
169–70, 207, 226, 261, 303, 314, 317,
335, 343, 361
writing systems 30, 57–60, 62–4, 66–7, 71,
79–80, 129, 249, 348
Written Buryat-Mongol 103
Written Chinese 55
Written Manchu 31, 55, 397
Written Moghol 250–2
Written Mongol xvii, xix, 1–8, 13–15, 22,
24, 26, 30–56, 58–9, 91–2, 95–6, 99, 103,
127, 129, 154, 177, 180–1, 189–91, 193–5,
198, 210–12, 215–16, 226, 229, 368–9,
374, 382–4, 391, 393–4, 398, 407, 412–13
Written Oirat 210–28, 368, 379, 384
Written Tibetan 344
Wutun creole 286, 325–6
Xianbei 391–3, 405–6
Xiaojing 59–60
Xiazhuang see Baoan Xiaxhuang
Xibu Yugu see Sarygh Yughur
Xining 286
Xinjiang see Sinkiang
Xiongnu 405–6
Xunhua 325
xylographic publications 32, 210–11
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