Nota Bene: The specimen of the programme leaflet from which this text was gleaned bears the owner’s handwritten note: “For changes see notice at door.” In addition, some names which appear here do not appear in the list of participants in the Proceedings; hence it cannot be confirmed with absolute certainty whether these participants really delivered their papers.

Editor, September 1, 2026.

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41st Meeting of the PIAC, Majvik 5–10 July 1998

General Programme

5^th of July, Sunday
• 12.00–22.00: Registration
• 19.00–: Welcome dinner (Majvik Castle)

6^th of July, Monday
• 09.00–10.00: Opening session
• 10.00–13.00: Confessions
• 13.00–15.00: Lunch
• 15.00–16.40: Plenary session
• 16.40–17.00: Coffee break
• 17.00–18.00: Papers (Sections A1, B1)
• 18.00–19.00: Papers (Sections A2, B2)
• 20.00–: Dinner

7^th of July, Tuesday
• 09.00–09.40: Papers (Sections A3, B3)
• 09.40–10.40: Papers (Sections A4, B4)
• 10.40–11.00: Coffee break
• 11.00–12.00: Papers (Sections A5, B5)
• 12.00–13.00: Papers (Sections A6, B6)
• 13.00–15.00: Lunch
• 15.00–16.00: Papers (Sections A7, B7)
• 18.30–20.00: Reception (Helsinki)

8^th of July, Wednesday
• 09.00–22.00: Excursion
• 10.00–13.00: Reception and exhibition
• 13.00–15.00: Lunch (Ekenäs/Tammisaari)
• 15.00–18.00: Free time
• 19.00–21.00: Dinner (Hanko/Hangö)

9^th of July, Thursday
• 09.00–09.40: Papers (Sections A8, B8)
• 09.40–10.40: Papers (Sections A9, B9)
• 10.40–11.00: Coffee break
• 11.00–12.00: Papers (Sections A10, B10)
• 12.00–13.00: Papers (Sections A11, B11)
• 13.00–15.00: Lunch
• 15.00–16.00: Papers (Sections A12, B12)
• 16.00–17.00: Papers (Sections A13, B13)
• 17.00–18.00: Business meeting
• 19.00–: Dinner

10^th of July, Friday
• After breakfast: Departure

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Programme of the 41^st Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference

6^th of July, 1998

Plenary session (15.00–16.40)
Chairman: Denis Sinor

• Halén, Harry: Baron Mannerheim’s hunt for ancient Central Asian manuscripts
• Sárközi, Alice: Magic of writing
• Wright, David: Was Chinggis Khan literate?
• Alpatov, Vladimir: Letters of N. N. Poppe to Soviet Orientalists

Section A
A1 (17.00–18.00)
Chairman: Barbara Kellner-Heinkele

• Efremova, Maria: “Maadai Kara” epic: its background and its new features
• Gilg-Ludwig, Ruth: Representation of Maadai Kara

A2 (18.00–19.00)
Chairman: Ruth I. Meserve

• Kellner-Heinkele, Barbara: Rereading Abul-Ghazi Bahadur Khan’s “Secere-i Terakime”
• Han, Sherman H. M.: Akdun’s poetry on his journey to Mongolia and Xinjiang
• Gülensoy, Tuncer: Caglar boyunca Türkler ve yazıları

7th of July, Tuesday
A3 (09.00–09.40)
Chairman: Peter Zieme

• Scharlipp, Wolfgang: Inverted syntax in Old Turkish Literature
• Zamrazilová Jakmyr, Jitka: Old Turkic literature in a structuralist perspective

A4 (09.40–10.40)
Chairman: Edward Tryjarski

• van Tongerloo, Aloïs: The importance of writing in the Central Asian Manichaean milieu
• Vassiliev, Dmitri: On preparing the electronic edition of the Old Turkic inscriptions
• Rybatzki, Volker: Punctuation rules in the Toñuquq inscription?

A5 (11.00–12.00)
Chairman: Wolfgang Scharlipp

• Bozkurt, İsmail: Altaic and Avrasian reflections from Turkish Cypriots
• Sağıroğluları İsmail, Sabahattin: Settlement of the Ottoman Turks in Cyprus and the cultural unity of Turkish Cypriots and the Turks in Anatolia and Central Asia
• Carlson, Charles: The role of western broadcasting to Central Asia

A6 (12.00–13.00)
Chairman: Okan Daher

• Nasrattınoğlu, İrfan Ünver: Türkler’in atası Dede Korkut üzerine (presented? Name does not appear in list of participants.)
• Türkmen, Fikret: Eski Türk yazıtlarında tabiat kültü (Crossed out)

A7 (15.00–16.00)
Chairman: Irina Nevskaya

• Kulikov, Leonid: Remarks on double causatives in Tuvinian and other Turkic languages
• Roos, Marti: The verb in Western Yugur (Yellow Uygur)
• Sagaan, Nonna: Das System der Lokalkasus im Tuwinischen

9^th of July, Thursday
A8 (09.00–09.40)
Chairman: Marti Roos

• Tatár, Magdalena: Eastern Turkic kildik navel and its Indo-European connections
• Nevskaya, Irina: The semantic field of space in Turkic languages

A9 (09.40–10.40)
Chairman: Marcel Erdal

• Tryjarski, Edward: Some novelties of the Runica Bulgarica
• Zieme, Peter: Die ‘Phags-pa-Schrift bei den Türken

A10 (11.00–12.00)
Chairman: Tuncer Gülensoy

• Daher, Okan: Orthographical traditions among the Tatar minority in Finland
• Korkmaz, Zeynep: Arap yazısı ve Türk dili

A11 (12.00–13.00)
Chairman: Fikret Türkmen

• Baykara, Tuncer: Eski Türklerde yazı nerede ögreniliyordu
• Ercilasun, Ahmet B.: Türk dünyasında Lâtin alfabesine gecis
• Ercilasun, Bilge: Türkiye’de Runik harflerle ilgili…

A12 (15.00–16.00)
Chairman: Gisaburo Kiyose

• Howell, Richard W.: Four morphs and a matrix
• Itabashi, Yoshizo: Old Japanese i and Old & Middle Korean i
• Solntseva, Nina: Japanese/Austronesian. Austroasiatic family and gods

A13 (16.00–17.00)
Chairman: Leonid Kulikov

• Latypov, Farit: On the sound system of the Kazan-Turkic languages
• Lim, An-King: On Turkic interference of mediaeval Chinese phonology
• Shirobokova, Natalya: On the phonological system of the Old Turkic runic texts (presented? Name does not appear in list of participants.)

Section B

6th of July, Monday

B1 (17.00–18.00)
Chairman: Frederik Kortlandt

• Brentjes, Burchard: The birth certificate of Ural-Altaic Studies
• Kiyose, Gisaburo: Puyŏ-Koguryŏ languages: the fourth Altaic stock
• Golman, Mark: The present state and development of Mongol Studies in Russia

B2 (18.00–19.00)
Chairman: Alice Sárközi

• Okada, Hidehiro: Haslund’s “Toregut Rarelro” rediscovered
• Esenova, Tamara: Some remarks on Kalmyk khan’s letters
• Uljeyt: Mongolian ancient writings in China

7th of July, Tuesday

B3 (09.00–09.40)
Chairman: Uljeyt

• Grivelet, Stéphane: Writing systems and scriptural environment in Mongolia
• Balk, Michael & Janhunen, Juha: A new approach to the romanization of Written Mongol

B4 (09.40–10.40)
Chairman: Hans Nugteren

• Franzén, Vivan: Some aspects of the dental stops in Khalkha Mongolian
• Solntsev, Vadim: Dative in Altaic languages and in Southeast Asian languages
• Skribnik, Elena: Participial constructions with the accusative case in Buriat and Mongolian

B5 (11.00–12.00)
Chairman: Hartmut Walravens

• Dshambinowa, Jelena: Farbsymbolik im kalmückischen Heldenmärchen und in einigen Versionen des Heldenepos “Djangar”
• Dugarov, Bayir: Geser-Bogdiin Sang: A little-known Buriat-Mongolian sutra
• Shivlyanova, Victoria: The problem of Kalmyk music traditions of “Jangar” (presented? Name does not appear in list of participants.)

B6 (12.00–13.00)
Chairman: Roger Finch

• Liu Fengzhu: Sixty years of Khitan Small Script studies
• Wang, Penglin: A study of Khitan vocabulary

B7 (15.00–16.00)
Chairman: Hidehiro Okada

• Higuchi Koichi: An old manuscript of the Mongolian Namasangiti
• Walravens, Hartmut: Ein mandjurisch-chinesisches Siegelbuch aus dem 18. Jahrhundert
• Badmaeva, Ekaterina & Keemya Orlova: The writing tradition of the Kalmyks (presented? Name does not appear in list of participants.)

9^th of July, Thursday
B8 (09.00–09.40)
Chairman: Giovanni Stary

• Meserve, Ruth I.: Writing on Man or Animal
• Pang, Tatiana: The stages of Dahai’s Manchu script reform of 1632: new data and questions

B9 (09.40–10.40)
Chairman: Hok-Lam Chan

• Zhelezniakov, Alexander: Estimation of Chinggis Khan’s role in XXth century Mongolia  (presented? Name does not appear in list of participants.)
• Schlueter, Elena: Kalmyk emigration – 1920–1951
• Lousianin, Sergei: Russian archives about the mutual relation between Russia, Mongolia and China in the XXth century

B10 (11.00–12.00)
Chairman: Junko Okada-Miyawaki

• Boikova, Elena: Development of a database of Russian expeditions to Mongolia
• Yaskina, G.: The cultural traditions in present Mongolian realities
• Omakaeva, Ellara: The ancient beliefs of the Kalmyks and Oirat manuscripts

B11 (12.00–13.00)
Chairman: Koichi Higuchi

• Nugteren, Hans: Sources for Common Mongolian
• Hugjiltu: On enclisis in Mongolian documents in hPags-pa script
• Finch, Roger: Korean Han’gul and the hP’ags-pa script

B12 (15.00–16.00)
Chairman: Alessandra Pozzi

• Okada-Miyawaki, Junko: Was Galdan Boshugtu Khan’s mother a Khoshut or a Torgut
• Tsendina, Anna: Galdan Khan’s role in Mongolian and Tibetan sources in the XIII-XIXth centuries
• Chan, Hok Lam: From tribal chieftain to Sinitic Emperor – leadership contests and succession crisis in the Jurchen-Jin state, 1115–1234

B13 (16.00–17.00)
Chairman: Tatiana Pang

• Kam, Taksing: The transcription of the early Manchu regal names
• Stary, Giovanni: Manchu names and some problems of their transcription