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Biography
He graduated in 1957 at the Eastern Languages Institute of Moscow State University, in Turkic philology. 1957-1960 and 1964-1966 at the Academy of Sciences, Kazakh SSR, 1966-1979 at lecturing in Kazakh language at the Kazakh State Women Pedagogical Institute. In 1975 he submitted his doctoral thesis on "Materials and research in the history of Old Turkic writing". 1979-1995 dean of the General Linguistics Faculty at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University
Amanzholov lectured for one year at the Black Sea Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey, in 1993/1994. Since 1995, he is a full member of the Kazakhstan Academy of Humanities. He was decorated as "Veteran of Labor" in 1998 and with the "Kdamet" order in 1999.
Sumero-Turkic
In chapter 9 of his 2003 book on the Old Turkic script, Amanzholov presents analysis of Sumerian logograms with "more than twenty indisputable lexical coincidences between the Sumerian and Turkic languages that ascend to a Proto-Turkic language". Amanzholov cites the hypothesis of F.Hommel about a relationship of the Sumerian with the Altai languages, and even with Ural-Altai languages as a whole, supported by a renowned Soviet historian S.P. Tolstov, and O.N.Tuna "the mass of 165 words and accompanying explanations proved that in linguistical aspect between Sumerians and Türks transpires a historical connection"]]. Referring to conclusions of Y.Klima, Amanzholov submitted that "The systematic character of the most ancient Sumerian coincidences allows to posit that a part of proto-Türks of the Central Asia migrated to Mesopotamia, settled there, and materially affected the language and accordingly the graphic logograms of proto-Sumerian written monuments". After listing his proposed Sumerian-Turkic cognates, Amanzholov noted that a prominent Sumerolog of the Russian State Hermitage Oriental Department recommended in 1970 to publish the study abroad as an article, but couselled against inclusion of the nmaterial in his PhD thesis of 1970, and that they had been stolen by Oljas Suleimenov who published them as his own in his groundbreaking book ''Asia'' (Alma-Ata, 1975), and who later had to publicly repent, since Sumero-Turkic studies were forbidden in Soviet Türkology.
After the fall of the Soviet Union, Amanzholov found himself free to address the Sumero-Türkic problem, communicating with Turkish author O. N. Tuna, who had published his study in Turkey.
Old Turkic alphabets
Amanzholov proposed reading for two Scythian inscriptions, found in the Irtysh and Issyk kurgans and dated to ca. 4th century BC, as "Proto-Turkic runes" . While mainstream scholarship assumes these inscriptions to record the Scythian language{fact}, accepting {fact} the Orkhon inscriptions of the 7th century as the oldest known traces of Turkic langauges{fact}, the Orkhon script is likely{fact} derived from "Scythian" variants {fact} of the Aramaic alphabet, like the Sogdian script.
Publications
Amanzholov authored five monographs in Russian and Kazakh.
- Glagol'noe upravlenie v iazyke drevneturkskikh pamiatnikov ("Verbal inflection in the language of the Old Turkic monuments"), Moscow: Izdatel'stvo "Nauka", 1969.
- "Turkic runic graphics", Almaty, KazGU, three parts, 1980-1985
- Babalar sözi, Peking: Ülttar baspasy, 1988, 70 pp. (Kazakh)
- Ortak asyl miras - Ortak asyl miras, Trabzon, 1994, (Turkish and Kazakh);
- Türki filologiyasy jene jazu Tarihi, Almaty, Sanat, 1996, 128 pp. (Kazakh);
- Qazaqsha-Oryssha Lingvistikalyq Terminologiia Sozdigi : Kazakhsko-Russkii Slovar Lingvisticheskoi Terminologii ("Kazakh-Russian dictionary of linguistic terminology"). Almaty, Qazaq universiteti (1997), ISBN 9965408017, 2nd ed. 1999.
- История и теория древнетюркского письма ("History and Theory of the Old Turkic script"), Mektep, Kazakhstan (2003), ISBN 9965162042.
References
- A.Amanzholov, "History and Theory of the Old Turkic script", Mektep, Kazakhstan, 2003, pp. 277-282
- A.Amanzholov, "History and Theory of the Old Turkic script", Mektep, Kazakhstan, 2003, pp. 277, 284
- A.Amanzholov, "History and Theory of the Old Turkic script", Mektep, Kazakhstan, 2003, p. 282
- Sümer ve Türk dillerinin târihî ilgisi ile Türk dili'nin yaşi meselesi ("Historical connection of Sumerian and Turkic languages and the problem of the age of the Turkic languages"), Ankara (1997)
- A.Amanzholov, "History and Theory of the Old Turkic script", p. 306
External links
- biography at turkicworld.org
- inofficial partial English translation of "History and Theory of the Old Turkic script" at turkicworld.org