OJ445 Old languages of Silk Road I

Faculty of Arts
Spring 2009
Extent and Intensity
0/0. 4 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
Teacher(s)
Mgr. Michal Schwarz, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Václav Blažek, CSc.
Department of Linguistics and Baltic Languages – Faculty of Arts
Timetable
Thu 18:20–19:55 C32
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is offered to students of any study field.
Course objectives
The course offers an introductory survey of nations and extinct or old languages in Asia along the Silk Road. The lectures contain sketches of the history of important countries and examples of abundant cross-cultural exchanges. At the end of this course, students should be able to learn the relations of important civilizations along the Silk Road.
Syllabus
  • 1. Concept of the Silk Road and main centres of Asian populations; 2. Greeks, Bactrians, Romans and Parthians - their languages, settlements and notes of old geographers; 3. Chinese language, empire and political influences from the time of the Han dynasty; 4. The Huns (Xiongnu) and Proto-Turkic clans; 5. Influences of Indian languages and Iranian civilisations; 6. Old-Turkic language and empires of the Turkic nations till the 12th century; 7. Rise and formation of Mongolian nations and Classical Mongolian; 8. Context of divergence of contemporary Turkic languages; 9. Languages of small nations (Tokharian, Uralic, Fenno-Ugric); 10. Scripts and languages of civilizations on the fringe of Silk Road (Tibetan, Tungusic, Semitic)
Literature
  • Baskakov, N. A. Tjurkskije jazyki. Moskva, 1960.
  • Comrie, Bernard (ed.). The World’s Major Languages. New York - Oxford, 1990.
  • Dybo, Anna V. Lingvističeskije kontakty rannych Tjurkov. Moskva, 2007.
  • Edgerton, Franklin. Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Grammar and Dictionary. Volume I. Grammar. New Haven. Yale University Press, 1953.
  • Roux. Jean-Paul. Dějiny Střední Asie. Přel. Z. Müller. Praha. Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2007. ISBN 978-80-7106-867-9.
  • Schmidt, Rüdiger. (ed.). Compendium linguarum iranicarum. Wiesbaden, 1989.
  • Solncev, V. M. (ed.). Jazyki Azii a Afriki. V. Altajskije jazyki. Moskva. Nauka, 1993.
  • Ramsey, Robert. S. The Languages of China. New Jersey - Chichester. Princeton University Press, 1989. ISBN 0-691-01468-x.
Assessment methods
Lectures, written description of a related topic and additional colloqium.
Language of instruction
Czech
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