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- Title
Gábor Bálint's Manuscripts of the 19<sup>th</sup> Century Kalmyk and Khalkha Vernacular Kept in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
- Authors
Birtalan, Ágnes
- Abstract
Gábor Bálint of Szentkatolna (1844-1913) was a Hungarian scholar with versatile interest and knowledge, but in the second half of his life with controversial ideas about linguistic affinity. His indisputable result is, however, the recording of large corpora of 19th century vernacular Christianised Tatar (1871), Kalmyk (1871-1872) and Mongolian proper - a kind of Western Khalkha dialect (1873). The Tatar material was published by Bálint himself and later also issued by Árpád Berta. The manuscript of Mongolian dialectal materials attracted the scholarly attention of some Hungarian and foreign researchers, but the critically revised publication had been waiting for its release until the recent years (the Khalkha material is still under elaboration). In the present article I am going to introduce Bálint's academic legacy focusing on the following aspects: 1. The linguistic value of the first large text-corpora of Vernacular Mongolian (Kalmyk and Khalkha). 2. Evaluation of the text-corpora as sources of that time ethnography, folklore and religious views of Kalmyks and Khalkhas. 3. The place of Bálint's heritage in the international Mongolian studies.
- Subjects
SCHOLARS; EXTREMISTS; HUNGARIAN language; KALMYKS; KHALKHA (Mongolian people); MONGOLIAN language
- Publication
Göttinger Bibliotheksschriften, 2016, Vol 39, p51
- ISSN
0943-951X
- Publication type
Article