Elementary Turkish                                                                     Buy Now!
                                                             
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Santa Monica - Istanbul, 2009.
ISBN 978-975-7981-40-4
Volume I: Türk Dilleri Araştırmaları Dizisi 43. Softcover, xix+380 pages
Volume II: Türk Dilleri Araştırmaları Dizisi 44. Softcover, xix+412 pages

Set of 2 volumes with 2 audio CDs: U.S. $75.00 (plus $4.80 Priority Mail shipping)
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Since it was first published in 2006, ElementaryTurkish has been adopted as
a textbook in over thirty U.S. universities. Students who complete the two-volume course should be able to speak, understand, read, and write Turkish at the level of "intermediate-mid" specified in AATT’s (American Association of Teachers of Turkic Languages) Provisional Proficiency Guidelines.Both volumes can be used
in a classroom setting or as self-study aids.

Elementary Azerbaijani                                                                  Inquire About Buying

ISBN: 975-9377-30-6                      
Published 2003 (First edition: 2000)
Santa Monica, California - Istanbul

Book and 2 CDs: $40.00 (the price includes Priority Mail shipping)

A beginning level course for "standard" Azerbaijani, the official language of
the Republic of Azerbaijan and the language spoken by educated
Azerbaijani speakers. It is the first and only Azerbaijani textbook in Latin script, published in the West for English speakers.

A 14th-Century Archery Treatise                                                 Inquire About Buying
in Mamluk-Kipchak: Kitab fi ‘Ilm an-Nushshab                      View Table of Contents

Published 2002                            
Istanbul

An English and Turkish bilingual edition of Kitab fi ‘Ilm an-Nushshab,
" A Book on the Knowledge of Arrows," or Khulasa, "‘The Essence."
This work is a late 14th century archery manual written in Mamluk-Kipchak
Turkic and composed during the Mamluk reign in Egypt. It is the
earliest archery manual written in Turkish. This edition is based on
the only complete existing manuscript of the work, that is preserved
in the Istanbul Beyazit Library (Veliyuddin Ef. No. 3176).

Dictionary of the Turkic Languages:                                           Inquire About Buying Azerbaijani, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Turkish,
Turkmen, Uighur, Uzbek

With Zhoumagaly Abuov, Nasir Kambarov, and Youssef Azemoun

ISBN: 041-5160-47-2
Published: 1999 (first edition 1996))
Routledge

A multi-language dictionary covering the eight major Turkic languages, which are Azerbaijani, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Tatar, Turkish, Turkmen, Uighur, and Uzbek.

Uygur Atasözleri ve Deyimleri  (Uighur Proverbs and Idioms)

Published 1992
Istanbul: Dogu Türkistan Vakfi Yayinlari

The first extensive collection and study, in Turkish, of modern Uighur proverbs.
This work includes more than 2500 Uighur proverbs and idioms.
Majority of Uighurs live in the Sinkiang-Uighur Autonomous Region
of China today, and they speak a Turkic language that is related
to other Turkic languages, such as Modern Turkish, Uzbek, and Kazakh.

Colloquial Azerbaijani (Book/Cassette Course)

ISBN: 088-4327-88-4
Published 1994
Guilford CN: Audio-Forum, Division of Jeffrey-Norton Publishers

An audio language course including a textbook and 3 audio cassettes.

Colloquial Kazakh (Book/Cassette Course)

With Zhoumagaly Abuov

Published 1994
Guilford CN: Audio-Forum, Division of Jeffrey-Norton Publishers

An audio language course including a textbook and 3 audio cassettes.

Colloquial Uzbek (Book/Cassette Course)

ISBN: 088-4327-43-4
Published 1993
Guilford CN: Audio-Forum, Division of Jeffrey-Norton Publishers

An audio language course including a textbook and 3 audio cassettes.

Munyatu’l-Ghuzat, A 14th-Century Mamluk-Kipchak Military Treatise
(Sources of Oriental Languages & Literatures 13)

Published 1989
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press

An English edition of Munyatu’l-Ghuzat, "Wish of the Warriors of the Faith,"
a 14th century military treatise written in Mamluk-Kipchak Turkic and
composed during the Mamluk reign in Egypt. This edition is based on
the only existing manuscript of the work, that is preserved in the library of
the Topkapi Palace Museum in Istanbul (Section: Ahmed III, No. 3468).