Orientalia Suecana

Orientalia Suecana: A diamond open access journal for Semitic, Iranian, Indic, and Chinese studies

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Current Issue

Vol. 74 (2025)

Published: 27.02.2025

Research articles

An Overview of Early Modern Missionary Dictionaries of Konkani and Marathi

Pär Eliasson

32-44
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A New Chuvash–Common Turkic Cognate and its Relation to Tocharian Evidence for Zetacism in Turkic

Orçun Ünal

45-55
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Closed forms of Indian poetry An introduction to poetic metre

Gunilla Gren-Eklund

56-72
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Conditional clauses in Old Uyghur translations of Chinese Buddhist texts

Erden Ye, Uldanay Jumabay

73-95
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Peter Paul Ekka Romanticism and ‘othering’ in the land of princes

Armin Chiocchetti

96-113
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Some Dynamics of Word Order in Biblical Hebrew

Jan Joosten

114-135
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Loanwords in the Language of Archaic Biblical Hebrew Poetry A Case for Akkadianisms

Tania Notarius

136-148
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Human–Hedgehog Relationships in Turkic-Speaking Areas Folklore, Linguistic Expressions and Medicinal Practices

Patrick Hällzon, Ingvar Svanberg, Zulhayat Ötkür, László Károly

149-170
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Ayloq – the summer pasture tradition in Wakhan in Tajikistan Part I: An ethnolinguistic sketch in Wakhi, with English translations and comments

Jaroslava Obrtelová, Gulbeka Pahlavonova

171-195
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Ayloq – the summer pasture tradition in Wakhan in Tajikistan Part II: Linguistic analysis of an expository Wakhi text with a focus on clausal subordination

Jaroslava Obrtelová

196-252
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Book reviews

McGovern, Nathan: The Snake and the Mongoose: The Emergence of Identity in Early Indian Religion

Kristoffer af Edholm

1-5
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Boeschoten, Hendrik: A Dictionary of Early Middle Turkic

Orçun Ünal

6-17
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August Ahlqvist: Tschuwaschisches Dialektwörterbuch. Kritisch ediert von Klára Agyagási und Eberhard Winkler

Chris Lasse Däbritz

29-31
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Translations

The Fourth Direction

Waryam Singh Sandhu; Carol Christine Fair

18-28
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Obituaries

In Memoriam Bo L. Isaksson (1947–2025)

Ablahad Lahdo

253-255
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