The Nineteenth-Century World of Turkic Dictionaries: An Overview

The author creates a bibliographic picture of the various Turkic-language dictionaries from the eleventh to the end of the nineteenth centuries, in various languages, and describes their structure. He then focuses specifically on printed Turkic dictionaries of the nineteenth century, discussing their historical context and a statistical survey that he conducted. A number of these dictionaries have been digitized; he examines some sites where they are accessible. In the appendix is a list of the dictionaries that he found in the course of his research

Karaim and Balkar translation of Le petit prince (The little prince) by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

In this book review the Karaim and Karachay-Balkar translations of Antoine de Saint- Exupéry’s The Little Prince are presented. The German publisher Edition Tintenfaß focuses on bringing out books and translations non-standard language variations and minority and endangered languages. The Karaim translation Kiči bijčiek by Halina Kobeckaitė and Karina Firkavičiūtė was published in 2018 and the Balkar translation Özd’än žaščïḳ by Magomet Gekki in 2020. At the end of the book review some linguistic comments are provided