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Mongolo-Tibetica Pragensia ’09 2/1 MMongolo-Tibeticaongolo-Tibetica PPragensiaragensia 009-1.indd9-1.indd 1 22.1.2010.1.2010 223:31:433:31:43 MMongolo-Tibeticaongolo-Tibetica PPragensiaragensia 009-1.indd9-1.indd 2 22.1.2010.1.2010 223:31:443:31:44 Mongolo-Tibetica Pragensia ’09 Ethnolinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Religion and Culture Volume 2, No. 1 Special Commemorative Issue in Honour of Assoc. Prof. J. Lubsangdorji on his 70th birthday Publication of Charles University in Prague Philosophical Faculty, Institute of South and Central Asian Studies, Seminar of Mongolian Studies Prague 2009 ISSN 1803–5647 MMongolo-Tibeticaongolo-Tibetica PPragensiaragensia 009-1.indd9-1.indd 3 22.1.2010.1.2010 223:31:443:31:44 Th e publication of this volume was fi nancially supported by the Ministry of Education of the Czech Republic as a part of the Research Project No. MSM0021620825 “Language as human activity, as its product and factor”, a project of the Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University in Prague. Mongolo-Tibetica Pragensia ’09 Linguistics, Ethnolinguistics, Religion and Culture Volume 2, No. 1 (2009) © Editors Editors-in-chief: Jaroslav Vacek and Alena Oberfalzerová Editorial Board: Daniel Berounský (Charles University in Prague) Agata Bareja-Starzyńska (University of Warsaw, Poland) Katia Buff etrille (École pratique des Hautes-Études, Paris, France) J. Lubsangdorji (Charles University in Prague) Marie-Dominique Even (Centre National des Recherches Scientifi ques, Paris, France) Tsevel Shagdarsurung (National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia) Domiin Tömörtogoo (National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia) Reviewed by Prof. Václav Blažek (Masaryk University in Brno) Dr. Katia Buff etrille (École pratique des Hautes-Études, Paris) and Prof. Tsevel Shagdarsurung (National University of Mongolia) English correction: Dr. Mark Corner, formerly lecturer at Charles University, presently HUB University, Brussels Institute of South and Central Asian Studies, Seminar of Mongolian Studies Faculty of Philosophy, Charles University in Prague Celetná 20, 116 42 Praha 1, Czech Republic http://mongolistika.ff .cuni.cz/?page=home Publisher: Stanislav Juhaňák – TRITON http://www.triton-books.cz Vykáňská 5, 100 00 Praha 10 IČ 18433499 Praha (Prague) 2009 Cover Renata Brtnická Typeset Studio Marvil Printed by Sprint Publication periodicity: twice a year Registration number of MK ČR E 18436 ISSN 1803-5647 MMongolo-Tibeticaongolo-Tibetica PPragensiaragensia 009-1.indd9-1.indd 4 22.1.2010.1.2010 223:31:443:31:44 CONTENTS Tabula Gratulatoria Alena Oberfalzerová J. Lubsangdorji – Life and Work – Ts. Shagdarsuren A short survey of the scripts used by the Mongols (Th e place of Mongolian script among other ‘Mongol’ scripts) – Alena Oberfalzerová Onomatopoeia and iconopoeia – as an expressive means in Mongolian – Choimaa Sharav, Th e possibility to clarify the nature of the ancient Mongolian Language through the orthography of the old Mongolian written language – B. Sodo Comparison of the Mongolian locative suffi x -dur/-dür – -tur/-tür and the Manchu ablative suffi x -deri – Yoshino Kozo A comparative study of the usages of Mongolian and Japanese kinship terminologies – Jaroslav Vacek Verba dicendi and related etyma in Dravidian and Altaic 4.2. Etyma with initial dentals (t-, d-, n-) and root-fi nal liquids and retrofl ex stops – MMongolo-Tibeticaongolo-Tibetica PPragensiaragensia 009-1.indd9-1.indd 5 22.1.2010.1.2010 223:31:443:31:44 Review Section Sziregetü Güüszi Czordżi, Czikula keregleczi: Zasady buddyzmu. Translated from Mongolian into Polish, edited and introduced by Agata Bareja-Starzyńska. Biblioteka Dzieł Wschodu – Myśl Wschodu, Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warszawa 2006, 332 pp. (Reviewed by Rachel Mikos) – Bayarma Khabtagaeva, Mongolic Elements in Tuvan. Turcologica Band 81. Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 2009, 341 pp. (Reviewed by Veronika Kapišovská) – MMongolo-Tibeticaongolo-Tibetica PPragensiaragensia 009-1.indd9-1.indd 6 22.1.2010.1.2010 223:31:443:31:44 Tabula Gratulatoria Assoc. Prof. Agata Bareja-Starzyńska, Ph.D., University of Warsaw, Poland Dr. Daniel Berounský, PhD., Charles University in Prague Dr. (habil.) Birtalan Ágnes, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest Dr. Katia Buff etrille, École pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, France Prof. Luvsandorj Bold, Academy of Sciences, Ulanbaatar, Mongolia Dr. Gurragchaa Cecegdari, Ph.D, Antoon Mostaert Mongol Sudlaliin Tov, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia PhDr. Lygžima Chaloupková, Interpreter in Mongolian, Prague. Prof. Dr. Choimaa Sharav, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Prof. Dr. L. Chuluunbaatar , National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Prof. Dr. T. Dashtseden, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Prof. Dr. Sendenjawyn Dulam, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaa- tar, Mongolia Dr. Sh. Egshig, Ph.D., National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Dr. Marie-Dominique Even, French National Center for scientifi c research (CNRS), Paris, France PhDr. Ivana Grollová, Currently posted at the Embassy of the Czech Repub- lic in Beijing as Deputy Ambassador Mrs. Veronika Kapišovská, M.A., Charles University in Prague Mr. Enkhtur Munkh-Uchral, M.A., National University of Mongolia, Ulaan- baatar, Mongolia Dr. Alena Oberfalzerová, Ph.D., Charles University in Prague Dr. Rodica Pop, Th e Mircea Eliade Center for Oriental Studies, Bucharest, Rumania Prof. Dr. Ts. Shagdarsurung, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Prof. Dr. Kang Shin, Dankook University, Korea Prof. Dr. Domii Tumurtogoo, Academy of Sciences, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Prof. Dr. Jaroslav Vacek, Charles University in Prague Mr. Yoshino Kozo, M. A., Daito Bunka University, Tokyo, Japan Prof. Dr. D. Zayaabaarat, National University of Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia Dr. Veronika Zikmundová, Ph.D., Charles University in Prague MMongolo-Tibeticaongolo-Tibetica PPragensiaragensia 009-1.indd9-1.indd 7 22.1.2010.1.2010 223:31:443:31:44 MMongolo-Tibeticaongolo-Tibetica PPragensiaragensia 009-1.indd9-1.indd 8 22.1.2010.1.2010 223:31:443:31:44 J. Lubsangdorji – Life and Work Alena Oberfalzerová, Charles University in Prague Associate Prof. J. Lubsangdorji has completed his threescore years and ten of age. He was born on February 15, 1939 (or March 6, 1939)1 in the country- side near the River C’uuluut in the Cecerleg Somon region of the Arhangai Aymag, as the fi rst-born son in the family of a former Lama. In the 1930s his father was forced to leave the monastery and marry. J. Lubsangdorji has two brothers. All three of them have a University education; one is a medical doc- tor, another specialises in engineering in Ulaanbaatar. J. Lubsangdorji grew up in the traditional nomadic milieu, in a family where the carpenter’s pro- fession was passed on for generations and made the family famous. Th ey de- signed many temples and his grandfather even built a mill with a millwheel on the River Az. J. Lubsangdorji received his basic education in a rural student hostel. Th e fi rst four years were not far away from the residence of his family and the next three years in the Erdenmandal Somon Centre. He spent the last three years of his education at the higher secondary school in Cecerleg, the Aymag centre. In 1957 he was admitted to study at the State Pedagogical University (Ulsiin bags’iin ih surguul’) in Ulaanbaatar to study Mongolian language and literature. In 1961 he fi nished his studies by defending a thesis on the topic of the orthographical system of the classical Mongolian script. Classical Mon- golian script and classical Mongolian literature remained a lifelong interest and topic of study. Aft er successfully graduating with a ‘Red Diploma’ and a special distinction, he was off ered several attractive jobs (to become a University teacher or a lan- guage adviser to the Legislative Committee). However, he declined to accept and decided to teach small children in the countryside and became a school teacher in the Erdenmandal Somon Centre, where he soon became a Peda- gogical Supervisor. He was then nominated to the post of the Director of the 1) Traditionally Mongols did not consider the exact date of the birth of a child to be important. Th at is why the offi cial date may diff er, as in the case of J. Lubsangdorji. He himself consid- ers the date in the brackets to be the correct date. MMongolo-Tibeticaongolo-Tibetica PPragensiaragensia 009-1.indd9-1.indd 9 22.1.2010.1.2010 223:31:443:31:44 10 MONGOLO-TIBETICA PRAGENSIA ’09 Aymag Centre of Pedagogy and Methodology (1964–1968), where he devoted all his energy to improving the quality of education of teachers and of their teaching methodology. Th is inspired him to study the works of world peda- gogues, e.g. John Amos Comenius and Konstantin Dmitrievič Ušinskij, both of whom he admired very much. He also studied the work of Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi and John Locke, whose works were translated into Russian. Th is greatly aff ected his career as an outstanding teacher and pedagogue. At that time he met Prof. C’oi. Luvsanz’av, who recognised his qualities and chose him for further co-operation. J. Lubsangdorji was also successful in a public competition for the post of postgraduate training at the Soviet State Peda- gogical Institute of A.I. Gercen in Leningrad, where he spent two months. In 1968 he accepted the off er of the post of senior lecturer at the Department of Mongolian Language of the Mongolian State University in Ulaanbaatar, where he worked till 1971. During that time his interest in pedagogy was replaced by another important interest in Tibetan language and Buddhist philosophy, and he started to study philosophical texts in Tibetan and Classical Mongo- lian. He also studied with a Buddhist Lama O’lzii, a fully ordained Lama from O’vorhangai, whom he kept visiting secretly at home on weekends for a pe- riod of three years and who trained him in these disciplines (and also Tibet- an and Classical Mongolian). He studied especially the work of the reformer Tsongkhapa (1357–1419) Lam-rim chen-mo (Mo. Mo’riin zereg, Presentation of the Graded Stages of the Path).