Sanglax: A Persian Guide to the Turkish Language

ISBN-13: 9780906094310 / Angielski / Twarda / 1960 / 144 str.

Sir Gerard Clauson

Opis

Mirza Mahdi Xan Astarabadi came from a Persian bureaucratic family. He had for a time served Hadir Shah (r. 1736-1747) as Chief Secretary and wrote two ornate histories of his master's eventful reign. The present work was written in or near 1759 as a product of his retirement. Sanglax, meaning Stony place, begins with a grammar of the variety of Turkish which achieved the status of a literary language in Eastern Iran and the adjoining regions of Central Asia in the 15th and 16th centuries and is known as Cagatay but the bulk of the work consists of a Turkish-Persian dictionary.