Oirad and Kalmyk linguistic essays

Eötvös Loránd: Elte Eötvös Kiadó, 2012. — 210 oldal. — ISBN 978 963 312 116 0Researching Oirad materials is particularly important among Mongolic languages. The reason is that once living in a compact unity, the ethnic group has widely scattered but they still preserve their specific language and culture even surrounded by a diffrent majority (Mongolia, China, Russia). Living separated from each other since the 17 th century and some of their groups changing territory several times, the Oirad groups have conserved archaisms in their dialects that could contribute to the study of the development and changes of other Mongolic languages. Th examination of other changes in majority environments, of the strategies of preserving their language and culture might provide grounds for drawing linguistic and cultural inferences of general validity.