Implications for the spread of the title khan, khagan, khatun and related forms in languages of Inner Asia

SCHWARZ, Michal. Implications for the spread of the title khan, khagan, khatun and related forms in languages of Inner Asia. Altai Hakpo. Seoul: The Altaic Society of Korea (Seoul National University), 2022, vol. 32, No 1, p. 191-214. ISSN 1226-6582.

Basic information

• Original name: Implications for the spread of the title khan, khagan, khatun and related forms in languages of Inner Asia
• Authors: SCHWARZ, Michal (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Altai Hakpo, Seoul, The Altaic Society of Korea (Seoul National University), 2022, 1226-6582.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Article in a journal
• Field of Study: 60202 Specific languages
• Country of publisher: Republic of Korea
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL WoS URL
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14210/22:00129155
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• UT WoS: 999
• Keywords in English: royal title; khan; khagan; Inner Asian languages; Koguryo; migration
• Tags: rivok
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

This paper offers selected remarks regarding the implications for the spread of the title khan, khagan and khatun in the languages of Inner Asia. After the introduction in the first part of the article, the questions of the typology of the syllable and ethnolinguistic ambiguity are mentioned in the second part. The third part follows with a brief chronology of the spread and basic forms of the title in Inner Asian languages (Old Turkic and Indo-European, Mongolic and Tungusic; Chinese transcriptions are planned for a separate paper). The next fourth part discusses examples of semantical changes appearing in the process of borrowing to differing cultural contexts. The fifth part focuses on possible sources of the word and its early use in Koguryo and Sino-Korean. It is followed by an interpretation based on past climate change and extensive migration patterns in the final sixth section. A preliminary conclusion points out that the relocation of Koguryo and other people contributed to the spread of possible source-words in north Inner Asia and created conditions for the use of this title by a different (in fact multiethnic) nobility. The second part of the disyllabic title might be partly related to a diminutive marker or marker of deification.

Links

• GA19-07619S, research and development project: Name: Mongolské rituální rukopisy v české sbírce: jejich edice, historie a středoasijské kořeny

Investor: Czech Science Foundation