Rachewiltz Igor de, Rybatzki Volker (eds.) Introduction to Altaic philology: Turkic, Mongolian, Manchu

Hung Chin-fu. — Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2010. — xx, 446; 50 p. (figures). — (Handbook of Oriental studies; section 8 Central Asia Vol. 20). — ISBN 9789004185289.There are many excellent books dealing with Old Turkic, Preclassical and Classical Mongolian and Literary Manchu individually, but none providing in a single volume a comprehensive survey of all the three major Altaic languages. The present volume attempts to fill this gap; at the same time it reviews also the much debated Altaic Hypothesis. The book is intended for use by students at university level as well as by general readers with a basic knowledge of linguistics. The 39 language texts analysed in the volume are discussed within their historical and cultural context, thus vastly enlarging the scope of the purely linguistic investigation.Chuvash–Turkic
Mongolian
Manchu–Tungus
The Altaic Hypothesis