TY - JOUR
TI - Miechowita’s knowledge of East European languages (mainly Hungarian, Lithuanian and Tatar) based on his Tractatus de duabus Sarmatiis (1517)
AU - Stachowski, Marek
TI - Miechowita’s knowledge of East European languages (mainly Hungarian, Lithuanian and Tatar) based on his Tractatus de duabus Sarmatiis (1517)
AB - 
	Very few people know that a possibility of reconstructing protolanguages or protoforms was probably first suggested as early as in the 16th century by Miechowita while discussing the origin of the name of Hungarians and that of Yugra. Miechowita’s “Treatise on the two Sarmatias” was once an extremely important source of knowledge of the geography and history of East Europe. Although much was written on its significance in correcting more or less unlikely information concerning these subjects his linguistic material was actually ignored. The aim of this study is to examine what was known about East European languages in the early sixteenth century.
VL - 2013
IS - Volume 130, Issue 4
PY - 2013
SN - 1897-1059
C1 - 2083-4624
SP - 309
EP - 316
DO - 10.4467/20834624SL.13.020.1151
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-linguistica-uic/artykul/miechowitas-knowledge-of-east-european-languages-mainly-hungarian-lithuanian-and-tatar-based-on-his-tractatus-de-duabus-sarmatiis-1517
KW - Miechowita
KW - Hungarian
KW - Lithuanian
KW - Tatar
KW - history of linguistics
KW - language reconstruction