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JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES _____________________________________________________________________________________ Journal of the Gábor Bálint de Szentkatolna Society Founded: 2009. Internet: www.federatio.org/joes.html _____________________________________________________________________________________ Volume I., Issue 4. / October — December 2009 ____________________ ISSN 1877-4199 October-December 2009 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume I., Issue 4. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Publisher Foundation 'Stichting MIKES INTERNATIONAL', established in The Hague, Holland. Account: Postbank rek.nr. 7528240 Registered: Stichtingenregister: S 41158447 Kamer van Koophandel en Fabrieken Den Haag Distribution The periodical can be downloaded from the following Internet-address: http://www.federatio.org/joes.html If you wish to subscribe to the email mailing list, you can do it by sending an email to the following address: [email protected] The publisher has no financial sources. It is supported by many in the form of voluntary work and gifts. We kindly appreciate your gifts. Address The Editors and the Publisher can be contacted at the following addresses: Email: [email protected] Postal address: P.O. Box 10249, 2501 HE, Den Haag, Holland Individual authors are responsible for facts included and views expressed in their articles. _____________________________________ ISSN 1877-4199 © Mikes International, 2001-2009, All Rights Reserved _____________________________________________________________________________________ © Copyright Mikes International 2001-2009 2 October-December 2009 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume I., Issue 4. _____________________________________________________________________________________ CALL FOR PAPERS We encourage everybody to submit to the Editorial Board ( [email protected] ) papers in the fields covered by the Journal. The papers will be assessed solely on their academic merits, and these are the few prerequisites the authors and their papers should adhere to: Can be written in any language. However, if written in a language other than English, please provide an English summary of at least A4 length. A brief (max. 10 sentences long) professional CV in English. NEWS BRIEF The news brief section features the latest news from the past three months prior to publication of each Journal of Eurasian Studies issue in the areas of anthropology, archaeology, ethnology, folklore, genetics, and linguistics with a special focus on Asia and the interaction between various European and Asian peoples. News pieces outside the three-month period or our scope of focus may also be included if they are found to be of great value and relevance by our editorial board. Please submit a short summary of those newsbytes (max. 100 words) in English to the following email-address: [email protected] , indicating the source as well (also URL if applicable). The column is edited by Andor Zombori . If the original news is only available in hardcopy, please send us a copy to the following address: Journal of Eurasian Studies, P.O. Box 10249, 2501 HE, Den Haag, Holland . The names of the contributors will be published in the journal unless they ask otherwise. _____________________________________________________________________________________ © Copyright Mikes International 2001-2009 3 October-December 2009 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume I., Issue 4. _____________________________________________________________________________________ EDITORIAL BOARD Editor-in-Chief FARKAS, Flórián The Hague, Holland Deputy Editor-in-Chief OBRUSÁNSZKY, Borbála Budapest, Hungary Editors ALIMBAY, Nursan Almaty, Kazakhstan ARADI, Éva Budapest, Hungary BÉRCZI, Szaniszló Budapest, Hungary BÍRÓ, András Budapest, Hungary CSORNAI, Katalin Budapest, Hungary CZEGLÉDI, Katalin Pécs, Hungary ERDÉLYI, István Göd, Hungary HORVÁTH, Izabella Hangzhou, China KARATAY, Osman İzmir, Turkey MARÁCZ, László Amsterdam, Holland MARCANTONIO, Angela Rome, Italy SECHENBAATAR Hohhot, China UCHIRALTU Hohhot, China ZOMBORI, Andor Nagoya, Japan _____________________________________________________________________________________ © Copyright Mikes International 2001-2009 4 October-December 2009 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume I., Issue 4. _____________________________________________________________________________________ CONTENTS Dear Reader,.............................................................................................................................................7 Our Authors .............................................................................................................................................8 NEWS BRIEF................................................................................................... 12 CHRONICLE ................................................................................................... 24 On the Issue of Language Families: The Indo-European Languages and the Finno-Ugric/Uralic Languages....................................25 MARÁCZ, László Conference on the Relations between the Ancient History of the Hungarians and Christianity............................................................................................................41 HISTORY.......................................................................................................... 44 BÉRCZI, Szaniszló Ancient Art of Eastern-Asia ..............................................................................................................45 KUSHKUMBAYEV, Aybolat The Magyar (Madžar, Madiar) Ethnonym in Medieval Written Sources................................52 SZABÓ, Christopher Nomad Hordes or Nomad Armies? .................................................................................................62 ZÁHONYI, András Four Archangels on the Holy Hungarian Crown?........................................................................71 LINGUISTICS ................................................................................................. 79 CZEGLÉDI, Katalin The Linguistic Background of the Scythian-Hunnish-Avar-Hungarian Continuity ............80 LANGUAGE TEACHING METHODOLOGIES........................................ 92 MOLNÁR, Zsolt & MOLNÁRNÉ CZEGLÉDI, Cecília The Creative Hungarian Language and Its Special Teaching Method Part 2. : The Sound Symbolical Nature of the Hungarian Language........................................93 _____________________________________________________________________________________ © Copyright Mikes International 2001-2009 5 October-December 2009 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume I., Issue 4. _____________________________________________________________________________________ ETHNOMUSICOLOGY............................................................................... 110 DU, Yaxiong Comparative Research between Fundamentals of Chinese and Western Music Theories111 ANCIENT WRITING SYSTEM RESEARCH............................................ 121 MELLÁR, Mihály A Critical Look at J. Younger’s Homepage for the Linear A Writing .....................................122 GEOSTRATEGY............................................................................................ 141 CHATTERJEE, Suchandana From the Past to the Present: An Indian Retrospective on Eurasia.........................................142 BOOK REVIEW ............................................................................................ 156 MARÁCZ, László — OBRUSÁNSZKY, Borbála The Heritage of the Huns................................................................................................................157 CLASSICAL WRITINGS ON EURASIA................................................... 164 BÁLINT DE SZENTKATOLNA, Gábor Preface of the ´ Romanized Grammar of the East and West Mongolian Languages with Popular Chrestomathies of Both Dialects ´..........................................................................165 _____________________________________________________________________________________ © Copyright Mikes International 2001-2009 6 October-December 2009 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume I., Issue 4. _____________________________________________________________________________________ DEAR READER , With this issue we are closing the first year of the Journal of Eurasian Studies. When we launched the Journal in March this year, the initial core team was hopeful that this new scientific forum by its very nature would generate interest from all around the world. The positive feedback that we received from readers as well as from new authors exceeded even our most optimistic expectations. The overwhelmingly positive reception of the Journal made it possible for it to mature at a faster pace than envisaged. At the end of the first year the structure of the Journal is greatly in place, the board of editors is enlarged and the informal network including the authors significantly widened. I would like to take this opportunity to thank from the bottom of my heart to all our Readers for their comments and encouragement, to our Authors for their submitted papers and to the Editors who made this possible. In the next year we are going to continue this work with even more resolve, maintaining the highest academic quality and freedom. My personal opinion is that at present mankind is experiencing one of the most exciting and challenging periods of its history. Our aim is to continue covering this extraordinary period with works