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The Uighur Word Materials in a Manuscript of Huá-yí-yì-yǔ (華夷譯語) in the Library of Seoul National University (V) — 天文門 tianwenmen ‘the category of astronomy’ —

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2019

YONG-SŎNG LI
YONG-SŎNG LI*
Affiliation:
Seoul National [email protected]
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Abstract

The Huá-yí-yì-yǔ is a general name for the various wordbooks between the Chinese language and its neighbouring languages compiled from the beginning of the Ming dynasty (1368–1644). It has broadly 4 different classes. In the wordbooks of the third class the words of each foreign language were transliterated only in Chinese characters and the letters of the language in question were not used. To this third class belongs the manuscript in the collection of the library of Seoul National University. Its seventh volume is for the Uighur language. It contains 19 categories. In this paper the first category of astronomy with 85 entries is treated.

There are many scribal errors in these materials. Apart from the shortcomings of the Chinese characters, this may be the main reason why the Uighur word materials in the wordbooks of this class are not highly regarded.

Keywords

category of astronomyChineseHuá-yí-yì-yǔUighurwordbooks.
Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society , Volume 29 , Issue 2 , April 2019 , pp. 257 - 318
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Copyright © The Royal Asiatic Society 2019 

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Footnotes

This work was supported by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2016S1A5B5A07918222). This is the corrected version of the paper read at the winter conference of the Korean Association for Central Asian Studies, Seoul, Korea, 3 December 2016.

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