JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES _____________________________________________________________________________________ Journal of the Gábor Bálint de Szentkatolna Society Founded: 2009. Internet: www.federatio.org/joes.html _____________________________________________________________________________________ Volume II., Issue 1. / January — March 2010 ____________________ ISSN 1877‐4199 January‐March 2010 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume II., Issue 1. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Publisher Foundation ʹStichting MIKES INTERNATIONALʹ, established in The Hague, Holland. 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The names of the contributors will be published in the journal unless they ask otherwise. _____________________________________________________________________________________ © Copyright Mikes International 2001‐2010 3 January‐March 2010 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume II., Issue 1. _____________________________________________________________________________________ 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 MAHAPATRA, Debidatta Aurobinda Mumbai, India MARÁCZ, László Amsterdam, Holland MARCANTONIO, Angela Rome, Italy SECHENBAATAR Hohhot, China UCHIRALTU Hohhot, China ZOMBORI, Andor Nagoya, Japan _____________________________________________________________________________________ © Copyright Mikes International 2001‐2010 4 January‐March 2010 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume II., Issue 1. _____________________________________________________________________________________ CONTENTS Dear Reader,.............................................................................................................................................7 Our Authors .............................................................................................................................................8 NEWS BRIEF.................................................................................................. 13 CURRENT & UPCOMING EVENTS.......................................................... 35 CHRONICLE.................................................................................................. 39 DI GIOVINE, Paolo The Issue of the Language Families in the Light of Recent Research.....................................40 MARÁCZ, László Hungarian Catholic Bishops’ Conference Truth Paradoxes......................................................44 HISTORY ........................................................................................................ 48 BÉRCZI, Szaniszló Ancient Celtic Art of Eurasia...........................................................................................................49 OBRUSÁNSZKY, Borbála State Structure of the Huns..............................................................................................................55 LINGUISTICS................................................................................................ 71 CZEGLÉDI, Katalin The Name of Hungarian People «hungar» in the Mirror of Geographycal Names ..............72 LANGUAGE TEACHING METHODOLOGIES ....................................... 87 MOLNÁR, Zsolt & MOLNÁRNÉ CZEGLÉDI, Cecília The Creative Hungarian Language and Its Special Teaching Method Part 3. : The Roots and Their System .............................................................................................88 ANCIENT WRITING SYSTEM RESEARCH ............................................. 98 MELLÁR, Mihály The Reading of the Cretan Hieroglyph Texts ..............................................................................99 _____________________________________________________________________________________ © Copyright Mikes International 2001‐2010 5 January‐March 2010 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume II., Issue 1. _____________________________________________________________________________________ ETHNOMUSICOLOGY.............................................................................. 113 BENCZE, Mihály Ancient Musical Instruments of Barcaság ..................................................................................114 GEOSTRATEGY .......................................................................................... 124 MAHAPATRA, Debidatta Aurobinda Volatility and Ethnic Instability in Post‐Soviet Trans‐Caucasus...........................................125 Z. TÓTH, Csaba Abduction of Europe.......................................................................................................................135 LITERATURE & ARTS............................................................................... 146 DE PINTO, Marco Syrayama On the Difficulty of Translating into Portuguese the Ottomanisms x Neologisms in Tuna Kiremitçi’s Dualar Kalıcıdır ...........................................................................................147 EKUKLU, Bülent Slumdog Millionaire (eng).............................................................................................................153 EKUKLU, Bülent Slumdog Millionaire (tur)..............................................................................................................156 BOOK REVIEW........................................................................................... 159 KÁRPÁTI, Gábor Csaba We, Huns — We, Magyars..............................................................................................................160 OBRUSÁNSZKY, Borbála I. V. Otroshenko. The Role of the Buddhist Church in the Mongolian National Movement (1905‐1911).....................................................................................................................171 USMANOVA, Larisa Aynur Sibgatullin. Tatar Internet.................................................................................................173 УCMAHOBA, Лариса Айнур Сибгатуллин. «Татарский интернет» .....................................................................176 CLASSICAL WRITINGS ON EURASIA.................................................. 179 HIRTH, Friedrich Hunnenforschungen .......................................................................................................................180 _____________________________________________________________________________________ © Copyright Mikes International 2001‐2010 6 January‐March 2010 JOURNAL OF EURASIAN STUDIES Volume II., Issue 1. _____________________________________________________________________________________ DEAR READER, OF MOVIES AND BOOKS… « Movies are the lingua franca of the twentieth century » — proclaims Gore Vidal at the beginning of his second memoir entitled Point To Point