1992 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Language Contacts in Middle Mongolian, especially in the Language of Mongolian Buddhist Works
| Project/Area Number |
03801045
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
言語学・音声学
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| Research Institution | Ehime University |
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Principal Investigator |
HIGUCHI Koichi Ehime University,Faculty of Law and Literature, Associate Professor, 法文学部, 助教授 (20156574)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1991 – 1992
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| Keywords | Middle Mongolian / Mongolian Buddhist Works / Language Contacts |
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| Research Abstract |
Most of the Mongolian Buddhist works available at present are translations from the Tibetan originals, but Buddhist terms did not always originate from Tibetan ones, especially not in the works translated in the Middle Mongolian period, Namely the XIV century. Careful scrunity shows that the works of the XIV century are full of many foreign elements, such as Tibetan, Uighur, Chinese elements and so on. We can regard this at least partly as a reflection of socio-cultural aspects of the Mongolian Empire, or of the Northeastern Eurasia of the XIV century. In 1991 I published an article, in which I made brief and introductory remarks on language contacts in Mongolian historical linguistics. In 1992 I presented a detailed survey of a Mongolian Buddhist work produced originally in the Middle Mongolian period, in which I tried to analyze the sources and channels of loans and shed some new light on how Buddhist works were translated into Mongolian in the XIV century. Through such detailed examinations of each borrowed form we can make clearer the linguistic state of that period. This is significant not only from the historical linguistic or the socio-linguistic viewpoint, but also from the viewpoint of cultural history of the Mongols. I am also planning to publish soon a study of another Mongolian Buddhist work and another article about loanwords in Middle Mongolian.
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