@article{c90de724-922b-450d-9e5a-55a4123d527c, author = {José Andrés Alonso de la Fuente}, title = {Tungusic historical linguistics and the Buyla (a.k.a. Nagyszentmiklós) inscription}, journal = {Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia}, volume = {2015}, number = {Volume 20, Issue 1}, year = {2015}, issn = {1427-8219}, pages = {17-46},keywords = {etymology; philology; medieval history of Asia; historical and comparative linguistics; Tungusic; Hungarian; Avars; migration}, abstract = {This paper presents a proper linguistic assessment of the Tungusic reading of the Buyla inscription, as proposed by the late Eugene Helimski (1950–2007) who believed that one of the languages spoken by the European Avars was Tungusic. The main conclusion is that the Tungusic reading should be rejected. This outcome partly agrees with the communis opinio whereby the Buyla inscription hides a(n unidentified so far) Turkic language.}, doi = {10.4467/20843836SE.15.002.2788}, url = {https://ejournals.eu/en/journal/studia-etymologica-cracoviensia/article/tungusic-historical-linguistics-and-the-buyla-a-k-a-nagyszentmiklos-inscription} }