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Document Details : Title: Dating of Early Language Contacts of Proto-Turkic and Chinese Author(s): DIVANYAN, Edward Journal: Journal Asiatique Volume: 311 Issue: 1 Date: 2023 Pages: 7-14 DOI: 10.2143/JA.311.1.3292219 Abstract : This article is devoted to the analysis of the oldest layer of borrowings from Chinese to Proto-Turkic in order to date it. The first attempt to date the early linguistic contacts of Proto-Turkic and Chinese languages was made by A.V. Dybo, but it was based on outdated readings of Chinese characters and should be revised. The new dating is 6th-7th centuries AD. It correlates with the historically recorded date of the first contacts of the Chinese with the Proto-Turks of Ashina tribe. Together with the dating of the first contacts of the Proto-Turkic language with Proto-Mongolian, also defined as the 6th-7th century AD, this excludes the presence of Proto-Turks in areas lying north of China before the 6th century and put an end to the theory of the Turkic origin of the Xiongnu. |
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