The Gunnar Jarring Digital Library

Two texts that might be of interest to our followers – one in English,https://www.birgitschlyter.se/lexicon/Turki_Lexicon.Forthcoming.pdf, and the other in Swedish,https://www.birgitschlyter.se/essa/Toppdiplomaten_som_blev_uigurernas_basta_van.pdf – on the much longed-for future 2nd edition of “An Eastern Turki – English Dictionary” compiled by Gunnar Jarring.

Photos:
The diplomat and UN negotiator who was once a young Ph.D. student riding on horseback across the Pamir Mountains for fieldwork among the Uyghurs in Xinjiang.

A NEW DICTIONARY DEVOTED TO UYGHUR CULTURAL HISTORY

To appear:

“An Eastern Turki – English Dialect Dictionary”, 2nd edition
Compiled by Gunnar Jarring, edited by Birgit Schlyter

Read more on www.sipcatsdirector.wordpress.com

Congratulations to colleagues in the project "Annotated Turki Manuscripts from the Jarring Collection Online" (ATMO; https://uyghur.ittc.ku.edu/atmo.html) with publications of digitized materials from the Gunnar Jarring Collection at Lund University Library. A great achievement!