Week 3: January 28 & 30

• Lecture 4: The languages of Central Eurasia and what linguistics can tell us
• Lecture 4.5: Pronunciation. See the Language Handout (on Canvas).
• Lecture 5: From origins to the first steppe nomadic power (the Scythians / Sakas)

On language:

· Allworth, Central Asia, pp. 61-71, 82-91

· Anthony, The Horse, the Wheel and Language, Chapter 5 (83-101)

· Watkins, "Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans" (American Heritage Dictionary, supplement on Indo-European linguistics) (Don't get bogged down in this)

· "Altaic Languages." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altaic_languages (to the ...