The Huns have often been treated as primitive barbarians with no advanced political
organisation. Their place of origin was the so-called'backward steppe'. It has been argued …

Today the Iranian languages are spoken from Central Turkey, Syria and Iraq in the west to
Pakistan and the western edge of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region of China in the east …

The Routledge Handbook of Language Contact provides an overview of the state of the art
of current research in contact linguistics. Presenting contact linguistics as an established …

Turkic languages have for centuries been spoken in highly dynamic contact settings,
entertaining numerous interfamily contacts with genetically and typologically different …

Armenian, a language testified since 5th century AC., is genetically classified as an
independent branch of the Indo-European (I.-E.) family. As it is the case for all I.-E …

Contemporaneously with the fall and transformation of the Roman West, the Iranian Empire
yielded its East to Hun—and later Turk—conquerors. This article traces the development of …

The present contribution is a first general overview over phenomena that might be tentatively
characterised as 'written language intertwining'. It deals with a number of examples from the …

Azeri, the second largest language in Iran, is a Turkic language, but its lexicon is heavily
influenced by Persian, an Indo-European language. This thesis examines the effect of …

Anatolia, or Asia Minor, hosted languages from various phyla (Urartian, Indo-European,
Semitic, Kartvelian, Turkic). The relevance of modern Anatolia for contact linguistics came to …

This thesis takes the adaptation of Arabic loanwords into Turkish as a case to reflect on and
contribute to the ongoing debate of loanword phonology of the Perceptual approach …