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The Museum of Asian Art in Berlin holds a single-folio fragment (shelf-mark M 152) of an Old Uigur medical text written in the Syriac script. It is the only known manuscript in the entire collection of Old Uigur texts of the Church of the East that deals with medicine. The present article provides a new edition of the fragment including a transliteration, transcription, English translation, commentary and glossary.

Among the several Eastern Turki medical manuscripts stored in the Gunnar Jarring Collection at Lund University Library, the untitled Prov. 283 is of particular interest for Turkic lexicography and translation processes, as it includes a glossary of sixty plant names and other medical terms many of which are difficult to find elsewhere. The article first provides background information and an introduction of the manuscript. It then presents and analyzes the various terms found in the glossary. It is argued that such lists and glossaries can significantly contribute to the knowledge and understanding of the medical lore of early modern Central Asia.

The Turkic languages use both derivation and compounding to form new lexemes. These two different strategies often occur in free variation. Consequently, the same semantic concept can be expressed by using both of them.

In this paper, I discuss (1) endocentric compounds based on two non-derived nouns, and (2) nouns formed on the basis of other non-derived nouns by means of derivational suffixes. I first give an overview and formal classification of the compounding and derivational strategies in the Turkic languages. Then I focus on the question how they are related to each other in terms of their semantics.

Modern Turkic Languages is an introduction to the field of Turkic studies designed and written for teaching purposes. The book may be useful to a broader readership, including general linguists and linguists specializing in languages other than Turkic.

After a general introduction and classification of the Turkic languages, the twenty-eight main chapters of the book provide various kinds of information about the entire family. Apart from its concise presentation of language-specific features and text materials in the original orthography, the book has two unique features that are not available in other publications. First, it provides transcriptions and interlinear glosses of the language samples, secondly, each sample is accompanied by an audio file that brings the `dead' letters of the book to life. This rich collection of audio files is the first of its kind and provides a plethora of opportunities for linguistic analyses and classroom discussions.

This paper describes the nature and characteristics of research on the linguistic relation between Turkic and Hungarian. The description begins with linguistic romanticism and the advances of the historical-comparative school, continuing up to recent results of academic research. Besides that, popular scientific contributions and amateurish endeavours questioning the academic achievements are investigated as well. The final part examines some possible reasons of why the academia continuously fails in communicating sciences to the general public.