How the initial letter h was marked in the transcription of the Uighur-Mongolian original of the SHM and subsequently in its Chinese transcription

Abstract

Based on the longterm linguistic research of the Secret History of the Mongols the author revises an idea of the historical phonetic representation of the initial element in the word preceding the vowel (so-called titem/titim "crown") suggesting that the initial consonant h was rather marked by the signs ḥēth and kāph.

Keywords

• How
• initial
• letter
• was
• marked
• Uighur-Mongolian
• original
• SHM
• subsequently
• its
• Chinese
• transcription