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STEFAN GEORG. A DESCRIPTIVE GRAMMAR OF KET (YENISEI-OSTYAK). VOLUME I. INTRODUCTION, PHONOLOGY, MORPHOLOGY (GLOBAL ORIENTAL, 2007, 468 P.) // Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology. 2015. Issue 4 (10). P. 123-129

COMPREHENSIVE DICTIONARY OF KET (WITH RUSSIAN, GERMAN AND ENGLISH TRANSLATION) (VOL. I–II, LINCOM GMBH, MÜNCHEN, 2015, 943 s. ED. BY E. KOTOROVA AND A. NEFEDOV) // Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology. 2016. Issue 4 (14). P. 159-162

Publication of the Comprehensive Dictionary of Ket (with Russian, German and English translation) (vol. I–II, LINCOM gmbh, MÜNCHEN, 2015, 943 s. Ed. by E. Kotorova and A. Nefedov is an important event for the studies in Yeniseic languages. This edition is a significant achievement in Ket language scholarship, which allows to understand better the structure of this unusual languages and serves as a good basis for further studies of Ket by future generations of Ket language scholars. The significance of this achievement is hard to overestimate, it is of great interest not only for linguists. Kets, as many other Siberian indigenous languages, did not have literacy, and the dictionary bridges information gaps on lifestyle, traditional economy, spiritual and material culture, migrations and inter-ethnic contacts, as well as on the geographical environment of Kets of past and present.

HYPOTHESIS OF DINLIN-YENISSEIC UNITY // Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology. 2017. Issue 1 (15). P. 9-24

In the proposed paper the author makes another come-back to the issue of Kets origin or, wider – Yenisseic people, the questions that was addressed to themselves by the XVIII century scholars and which is being asked by the XXI century scholars, there are many anticipations, but the Kets are still a mystery, nevertheless, we, of course know more about them nowadays, than the past centuries scholars. Especially we enriched our knowledge on them beginning from the second half of the XX century, mostly like due to works of outstanding scientists E. A. Alekseenko, A. P. Dulzon and E. A. Kreinovitch. The main interesting regarding their ancient genetic relations currently seem to be Sino-Tibetan and Dene-Yenisseic hypothesis, based on linguistic data. In the proposed article there is no a set task on critical analysis of the hypothesis on remote genetic relationship of Yenisseic people, the author would like to go to the question of the latter predecessors of Ket-Yenisseic people among early peoples of Central Asia and consider their possible ethnographic roots within those peoples. The level of working out of the Ket and other Yenisseic peoples’ problem currently allows only to outline different anticipations, regarding this point, the article is not different from other ones, but it attempts to allocate the abovementioned problem to the recorded historical events before BC and first centuries of CE, and also correlate it to peoples-participants of those events, particularly with Dinlins, Hunns and Hunnas. So that there is an attempt to estimate historiographic, ethnographic and linguistic material related to Yenisseic peoples’ problem to define their place, their participation and role in registered and possible to be reconstructed historical events in correspondent geographical areas.

Keywords: Yenisseic people’s origin, Ligeti–Palliblank hypothesis, Hunn–Yenisseic language relations

MOLCHANOVA O. T. ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ALTAI REPUBLIC TOPONYMS (SZCZECIN, 2018. VOL I, 598 P.; VOL II, 505 P.) // Tomsk Journal of Linguistics and Anthropology. 2021. Issue 2 (32). P. 171-174

Publication of the Encyclopedia of Altai Republic toponyms by O. Molchanova is an important milestone for the research on toponymy of Siberia. This two-volume work crowns the author’s exten-sive research that lasted for about four decades. A thourough analysis of toponimic names presented in the publication encompasses diverse facts and data from various disciplines, including history, geography, ethnography, cartography, mythology, folklore, etc., which gives this work a distinctly ency-clopedic character. It is sure that this encyclopedia will serve as a solid basis for future research activities in the field of Siberian toponymy.