Volume and Number
East Asian Research Aids & Translations, Volume 3
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Publication Date
1992
Managing Editor
Henry G. Schwarz
Publisher
Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University
City
Bellingham, Washington
Description
An Uyghur-English Dictionaryby Henry G. Schwarz: As the initial foundation of my dictionary I chose the Uyg̃urçä-xänzuçä lug̃ät which, in its manuscript form and after 1982 in published form, had been my steady companion in Xinjiang. If I ever considered doing nothing more than translating it into English, I rejected this option almost from the start. For one thing, I often found the dictionary to be inaccurate in many respects, both large and small. More importantly, a direct translation from Uyghur to English reduces the number and the degree of infelicities that smudge the interface between two languages. My course of action thus lay before me: after an initial translation of the Uyg̃urçä-xänzuçä lug̃ät into English, a task completed by the time my Tokyo apartment had turned pleasantly warm in the spring of 1985, I went to work to hunt down every Uyghur word, phrase, sentence, and saying in a large number of Uyghur sources published between 1954 and 1985. If I could not find it, I dropped it. If I could not verify a usage contained in the Chinese dictionary, I dropped it. On the other hand, if I could verify a usage but not in identical language, I kept the language used in the Chinese dictionary. If I discovered a new word, phrase, or saying, I added it to my collection. This stage of my labors took most of my spare time between March 1985 and the summer of 1991.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.25710/c1bm-2e85
Publisher (Digital Object)
Resources made available by the Special Collections, Heritage Resources, and Western Libraries, Western Washington University.
Type
Text
OCLC Number
26635636
Disciplines
East Asian Languages and Societies
Keywords
Uyghur dictionary, Uyg̃urçä-xänzuçä lug̃ät
Document Type
Book
Recommended Citation
Schwarz, Henry G., "An Uyghur-English Dictionary" (1992). East Asian Studies Press. 30.
https://cedar.wwu.edu/easpress/30
Rights
Copyright 1992 the Center for East Asian Studies, Western Washington University
Language
English
Format
application/pdf