Selected remarks to the spread of the title khan, khagan, khatun and related forms in languages of Inner Asia

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SCHWARZ Michal

Year of publication 2021
Type Article in Proceedings
Conference Proceedings of the Seoul International Altaistic Conference
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Faculty of Arts

Citation
Keywords Altaic;Indo-European;Koguryo;Sino-Korean;titles;migration patterns
Description The paper focuses on spread of the title khan, khagan and khatun mainly in Altaic and Indo-European languages of Inner Asia. The subtopics include brief chronology of the spread and basic forms of titles, comments to the examples of semantical changes which followed the process of borrowing to another cultural contexts. Possible source words and related forms in Koguryo and Sino-Korean and real use of titles are then related to migration patterns to shed more light on the background of historical processes.
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