Word: turkic
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Uzbek and Uighar are Turkic (not Turkish--because that is the language spoken in present day Turkey!) languages which have a rich literature from the ninth century onward. For someone who is interested in improving American relations with both China and Russia, it is necessary to know at least the languages and literatures to be found in Central Asia, all of which predate American literature by several centuries. And to keep Rosenthal's soul at peace, Akkadian was there long before even Europe was discovered, and is a major source of our knowledge of the ancient history of the Near...
Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations offers nine classes in Akkadian. The only Akkadian I have ever heard of is the instrument played at Italian weddings. The Turkic department offers two courses in Elementary Uzbek, and a course in both Old or Modern Uighur. I don't know what Uzbek is, and I can't even pronounce Uighur...
None of these courses have prerequisites, although for Modern Uighur, "Knowledge of any Turkish language [is] desirable." And for Old Uighur, "Knowledge of any Turkic Language is desirable." What's the difference between Turkish and Turkic? And under which category does Uzbek fall...
...complement your knowledge of Ukrainian, you can take Harvard's only summer offering in Turkic: TURK S-190: Ottoman Palaeography, which "involves intensive reading of the Siyaqat and Diwani Ottoman texts." Ownership of the Siyaqat and Diwani Ottoman texts is probably not a prerequisite of the course, but knowledge of both elementary Turkish and Ottoman...
stronger powers. Damascus was sacked and plundered in 1401 by Tamerlane, the Turkic conqueror, and in 1517 it came under the rule of the Ottoman Turks, where it languished for most of the next 400 years...