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Some questions concerning the Chinese transcription of the Secret History of Mongols

Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2012

Abstract

The absence of diacritics in the original text of the Secret History of Mongols written in Uigur-Mongolian script caused mistakes in reading and thus also in transforming into the Chinese characters. This lays behind numerous mistakes in the traslations of the Secret History into various languages.