著者

等々力 政彦

出版者

東京大学東洋文化研究所

雑誌

東洋文化研究所紀要 (ISSN:05638089)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.159, pp.220-238, 2011-03-28

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The Wu-li-ya-su-tai-zhi lue 烏里雅蘇台志略 is the Abridged Copy of the History of Uliastai, produced during the Qing era. this manuscript includes 46 words of Tuvan vocabulary called Wu-liang-hai tu-yu 烏梁海土語, the Aboriginal Language of Uriankhai. The vocabulary is basic and sufficiently recognizable in the standard Tuvan of the present-day Republic of Tuva. Although the date of the publication is unknown, it is likely to be 1804 (Jia-qing 9) which consulted from the certain information including the book. This dating is also supportive by the antiquity of the several vocabulary words: two of them are obsolete and another two semantically transferred. If I assume that the Tuvan vocablary of the History of Uliastai originates from the early nineteenth century, then this is one of the oldest reports of South Siberian Turkic languages, not just of Tuvan. Hence, I discuss this vocabulary, on which it seems there are no prior linguistic investigations.