Elementary Uyghur A

2011- 8- 31- - Introductory Lecture31 August 2011Elementary Uyghur AHello! / !Essalamu eleykum!Hello to you, too! / !We eleykum essalam!Are you well? / Tishliqmu?Im well, thanks! / !Hee, tishliq!About Me / Eric T. Schluessel (or just Erkin)BA Chinese and Linguistics, Connecticut CollegeMA Linguistics, SOAS (Turkic and Mongolic morphophonology)MA Central Eurasian Studies (Xinjiang Studies), Indiana UPhD candidate in HEAL at HarvardE-mail: eschlues@fas.harvard.eduOffice: None Meet in CGIS NorthOffice hours: TBAWhy Uyghur?/ Spoken by over 9 million people in Xinjiang/East TurkestanA fast-growing LCTL (or ANTL)A Turkic languageStudying politics, minorities, China, Central AsiaLiteratureUyghur in the world/

Why Uyghur?/ Spoken by over 9 million people in Xinjiang/East TurkestanA fast-growing LCTL (or ANTL)A Turkic languageStudying politics, minorities, China, Central AsiaLiteraturePre-Modern Uyghur Literature and History

There cannot be a clearer and more brilliant proof of the superiority of the Turks Turkish is inherently superior to Persian, and no Persian can claim the contrary.

- from Alisher Navai (1441-1501), Muhakamat al-LughataynModern Uyghur Literature Waking from three hundred years of sleep they do not recognize each other, nor do they know their own greatnessI happily drank down poison, thinking it fine wineWhen they search the streets and cannot find my vanished figureDo you know that I am with you. .

From Perhat Tursun, Elegy / trans. Joshua Freemanhttp://asu.edu/piper/publications/haydensferryreview/issue48/international/international_tursun.htmlHello! / !Essalamu eleykum!Hello to you, too! / !We eleykum essalam!Are you well? / Tishliqmu?Im well, thanks! / !Hee, tishliq!Our Textbook / Teklimakandin Salam , University of Kansashttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/5624

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ElegyPerhat TursunnullPoetry21342.06 - Poem written 2006, recorded 2010