A Study About Altai Turkish Which Has an Archive Value:
V. İ. Verbitskiy “Altayskie Inorodtsi”
(53rd Annual Meeting of the PIAC, St. Petersburg 2010)
This particular study of Verbitskiy that evaluates the life styles, material and abstract cultural elements, the language and religious beliefs of Altai Turks, is a scientific resource that has an archive value for both Altai Turkish and Turkology.
This paper emphasizes on the content of the study which has been written more than a century ago, its importance concerning the Altai language and culture in general and the lexicology of Altai Turkish will be evaluated in thematics terms in particular.