Altaic Crossroads:
A Fabric of Languages and Cultures

Proceedings of the 64th Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference (PIAC),
21–26 August 2022

Budapest, Hungary

edited by Ákos Bertalan Apatóczky

Szeged 2026

Contents

Preface 7–8

In Memoriam 9

Michael Balk: Crossroads – Written Mongol Romanised Vocabulary  11–31

Christine Bell: Sheepskin Coats in the Bâbur-nâma 33–54

Oliver Corff: From Felt to Fabric: Transformative Processes in Manju Lexicology and
Lexicography 55–69

Ayşe Şeyma Fındık: Phonetics of Tuvan According to the Texts of Katanov  71–79

Martijn G.T.M. Knapen: Kizi: An Amuric Hydronym  81–103

Julie P. M. Lefort: An Overview of Derivational Morphology on Verbs of Chinese Origin in
Dongxiang 105–123

Innokentiy Nikolaevich Novgorodov: The Fabric of the Yakut Language and Culture in the Altaic Crossroads 125–146

Katharina Sabernig: The Manchu Anatomy – a Revisited Fabric of Bodily Paintings 147–180

Hartmut Walravens, in cooperation with Albert König: The Manchu Names of Parrots According to the Imperial Bird Album (Niaopu) 181–194