This is the linguistics weblog of Christopher Culver, who graduated with a B.A. Classics from Loyola University Chicago and is currently doing an M.A. in Finno-Ugrian linguistics at the University of Helsinki.
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Last October I wrote a post on some odd words attributed to the Kalmaks in the Kyrgyz poem Kökötöydün ašı. The manuscript of the Manas epic prepared by Wilhelm Radloff features these and more in a passage where the Kyrgyz lord Kökčö, hearing that Manas has moved his camp towards him, tries to gather intelligence [...]
I have been oblivious to some exciting developments in Mari media on the web. The Mari weekly newspaper Kugarnja (‘Sunday’) seems to have been up for almost a year already. Mari newspapers can often be dull affairs for readers outside of Mari El, consisting of little more than recipes, agricultural advice, and trivial items badly [...]