Gastronomic Curiosities from the Periphery of the Turkic Speaking World

• Main Author: Elisabetta Ragagnin
• Other Authors: Ragagnin, Elisabetta
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; Turkish; German
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: South Siberia; Turkic linguistics; Mongolic studies; gastronomy; Settore L-OR/13 - Armenistica; Caucasologia; Mongolistica e Turcologia; samoyed*; taiga; Siberia
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10278/3742508

This contribution offers gastronomic and etymological insights from distant corners of the Turkic speaking world, namely from Mongolia’s Khövsgöl region. Mongolia’s north-western corners of Khövsgöl region, bordering with the Tuvan Republic and Buriatia, are home of the Dukhan people, who follow a unique lifestyle centred on the herding of reindeer. Linguistically, Dukhan belongs to Taiga-Sayan Turkic, a subgroup of the Siberian branch of the Turkic languages family. On the lexical level, Dukhan includes a substantial amount of loans from Mongolic varieties and a limited number of Russian and Samoyedic loanwords.