László Károly
Professor in Turkic Languages at Department of Linguistics and Philology
- Telephone:
- +46 18 471 10 89
- E-mail:
- Laszlo.Karoly@lingfil.uu.se
- Visiting address:
- Engelska parken
Thunbergsvägen 3H - Postal address:
- Box 635
751 26 UPPSALA
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- ORCID:
- 0000-0001-7723-1171
Short presentation
I have been Chair and Professor of Turkic Languages at Uppsala University since 2016. My academic background is in Altaic languages, historical-comparative linguistics and philology. My current research focuses on the phonetics and phonology of Turkic, the Turkic runiform inscriptions of Eurasia, the Middle Turkic languages, Siberian Turkic, word-formation and the history of medicine.
Keywords
- turkic
- yakut
- runiform
- morphology
- altaic languages
- historical-comparative linguistics
- history of medicine
- word-formation
- philology
- middle turkic
- database technologies
- chagatai
- siberian turkic
Biography
2016- Chair and professor, Uppsala University, Department of Linguistics and Philology
2011-2016 Associate professor (Juniorprofessor), Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Department of Oriental Studies
2009-2011 Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship for postdoctoral research, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Department of Oriental Studies
2009-2011 Assistant professor, University of Szeged, Department of Altaic Studies
2008 PhD in Altaic Studies (Linguistics), University of Szeged, Department of Altaic Studies
2005-2009 Teaching assistant, University of Szeged, Department of Altaic Studies
2002 MA in Turkic (Altaic) Studies, University of Szeged, Department of Altaic Studies
Research
Understanding the trajectory and distributional typology of phonological change
(Re)constructing a Bible - A new approach to unedited Biblical manuscripts as sources for the early history of the Karaim language, A Database of Middle Turkic
Runiform inscriptions - A Database of Turkic Runiform Inscriptions

Publications
Selection of publications
Part of Onomatopoeia in the World’s Languages, p. 637-647, Mouton de Gruyter, 2024
An Old Uigur medical fragment in Syriac script
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 28-37, 2024
Modern Turkic Languages: An Introduction with Accompanying Audio
Molnar & Kelemen Oriental Publishers, 2022
Part of Word-Formation, p. 3398-3413, Mouton de Gruyter, 2016
Brill Academic Publishers, 2015
Runiform fragments of the late Avar period from Hungary
Part of Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, p. 365-396, 2013
Deverbal Nominals in Yakut: A Historical Approach
Harrassowitz Verlag, 2013
Recent publications
Part of Türk Tıp Tarihine Genel Bir Bakış, p. 35-50, Eğitim Yayınevi, 2024
Part of Onomatopoeia in the World’s Languages, p. 637-647, Mouton de Gruyter, 2024
An Old Uigur medical fragment in Syriac script
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 28-37, 2024
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 69-75, 2023
- DOI for Václav Blažek, in collaboration with Michal Schwarz and Ondřej Srba: Altaic Languages. History of research, survey, classification and a sketch of comparative grammar. Brno: Masaryk University Press 2019, 358 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-9321-8.
- Download full text (pdf) of Václav Blažek, in collaboration with Michal Schwarz and Ondřej Srba: Altaic Languages. History of research, survey, classification and a sketch of comparative grammar. Brno: Masaryk University Press 2019, 358 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-9321-8.
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 1-4, 2023
- DOI for Benkő, Elek, Sándor, Klára, Vásáry, István: A székely írás emlékei. Corpus Mo-numentorum Alphabeto Siculico Exaratorum (CMASE) [Relics of the Székely script. Corpus Monumentorum Alphabeto Siculico Exaratorum (CMASE)]. Edited by István Vásáry. Budapest: Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont 2021. 927 pages, illustrated. Hardback 8900 Ft. ISBN 978-963-416-267-4.
- Download full text (pdf) of Benkő, Elek, Sándor, Klára, Vásáry, István: A székely írás emlékei. Corpus Mo-numentorum Alphabeto Siculico Exaratorum (CMASE) [Relics of the Székely script. Corpus Monumentorum Alphabeto Siculico Exaratorum (CMASE)]. Edited by István Vásáry. Budapest: Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont 2021. 927 pages, illustrated. Hardback 8900 Ft. ISBN 978-963-416-267-4.
All publications
Articles in journal
An Old Uigur medical fragment in Syriac script
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 28-37, 2024
Derived and compound nouns in Turkic
Part of Kungl. Humanistiska Vetenskaps-Samfundet i Uppsala, Årsbok, p. 171-193, 2020
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 1-2, 2019
An integrated dialect analysis tool using phonetics and acoustics
Part of Lingua, p. 37-48, 2019
Prototypical adjectives in Turkic
Part of Turkic languages, p. 74-89, 2016
Deverbal Nominals in Altaic: In search of a framework (not only) for reconstruction
Part of Turkic languages, p. 54-72, 2014
Runiform fragments of the late Avar period from Hungary
Part of Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, p. 365-396, 2013
The case of Altaic and West Old Turkic
Part of Turkic languages, p. 182-196, 2013
Panaceas and other miraculous cures in Middle Turkic medical writings
Part of Shaman, p. 5-21, 2012
History of the intervocalic velars in the Turkic languages
Part of Turkic languages, p. 3-24, 2012
Dominancy in Yakut: An historical approach
Part of International Journal of Central Asian Studies, p. 343-353, 2009
Yakut names for animals in Pallas’s Zoographia
Part of Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, p. 295-323, 2008
A szertő-tetői kő rovásírásos feliratai
Part of Magyar Nyelv, p. 300-310, 2007
A Seventeenth-Century Chaghatay Treatise on Medicine
Part of Communicationes de Historia Artis Medicinae (Orvostörténeti Közlemények), p. 51-61, 2006
Some remarks on the Yakut suffix +SXt
Part of Turkic languages, p. 187-192, 2006
Egy . századi csagatáj orvosi könyv mint nyelvi forrás
Part of Nyelvtudományi Közlemények, p. 89-112, 2005
Some remarks on the Turkic word qart
Part of Studia Etymologica Cracoviensia, p. 53-64, 2005
Articles, review/survey
In memoriam Berta Árpád (1951–2008)
Part of Nyelvtudományi Közlemények, p. 399-402, 2008
Books
Modern Turkic Languages: An Introduction with Accompanying Audio
Molnar & Kelemen Oriental Publishers, 2022
Brill Academic Publishers, 2015
Қазақша-мажарша тілдескіш / Kazah-magyar társalgási könyv
SZTE Altajisztikai Tanszék, 2015
Deverbal Nominals in Yakut: A Historical Approach
Harrassowitz Verlag, 2013
Қазақша-мажарша тілдескіш / Kazah-magyar társalgási könyv
Magyarországi Kazah Nagykövetség, 2001
Chapters in book
Part of Türk Tıp Tarihine Genel Bir Bakış, p. 35-50, Eğitim Yayınevi, 2024
Part of Onomatopoeia in the World’s Languages, p. 637-647, Mouton de Gruyter, 2024
Binominal strategies and semantic correlations in Turkic languages
Part of Binominal Lexemes in Cross-Linguistic Perspective, p. 355-379, Mouton de Gruyter, 2023
Part of The Turkic Languages, p. 145-151, Routledge, 2022
Part of Community Still Matters, p. 250-266, NIAS Press, 2022
Part of Dragomanen, p. 3-10, Svenska Forskningsinstitutet i Istanbul; Föreningen Svenska Istanbulinstitutets Vänner, 2020
Derivational networks in Tatar
Part of Derivational Networks Across Languages, p. 411-422, Mouton de Gruyter, 2020
Part of Word-Formation, p. 3398-3413, Mouton de Gruyter, 2016
Türkçe yazılmış İslam tıp eserlerindeki şifalı dualar
Part of Turcology and Linguistics. Éva Ágnes Csató Festschrift, p. 279-290, Hacettepe Üniversitesi, 2014
A Kiskundorozsma Kettőshatár úti II. avar temető 434. sírja
Part of A Móra Ferenc Múzeum Évkönyve, p. 161-221, Móra Ferenc Múzeum, 2014
Újabb lehetőségek a magyar nyelv török elemeinek kutatásában
Part of Nyelvelmélet és kontaktológia 2, p. 243-256, PPKE BTK Elméleti Nyelvészeti Tanszék & Magyar Nyelvészeti Tanszék, 2013
Jakut állatnevek Pallas Zoographiájában
Part of Bölcsészműhely 2008, p. 65-76, JATE Press, 2009
Toboz és doboz: Két vitatott eredetű szavunk
Part of A nyelvtörténeti kutatások újabb eredményei 5, p. 113-126, JATEPress, 2008
On the Old Turkic Verb ï r ̄ - ‘to make a notch, or breach’ and its Derivatives
Part of Néptörténet — Nyelvtörténet, p. 71-85, SZTE BTK Altajisztikai Tanszék, 2001
Collections (editor)
Turcology in Turkey: Selected papers
SZTE BTK Altajisztikai Tanszék, MTA-SZTE Turkológiai Kutatócsoport, 2007
Néptörténet - Nyelvtörténet: A 70 éves Róna-Tas András köszöntése
SZTE BTK Altajisztikai Tanszék, 2001
Conference papers
An online database of Turkic runiform inscriptions
Part of Актуальные вопросы тюркологических исследований, p. 534-541, 2016
Toboz és doboz. Két vitatott eredetű szavunk
Part of A nyelvtörténeti kutatásokújabb eredményei 5, p. 113-126, 2008
„Domináns” szuffixumvokálisok a jakut nyelvben. Egy történeti szempontú megközelítés
Part of Orientalista Nap 2005, 2007, p. 66-73, 2008
A Seventeenth Century Chaghatay Treatise on Medicine
Part of 38. Uluslararası Tıp Tarihi Kongresi Bildiri Kitabı (Proceedings of the 38th International Congress on the History ofMedicine), p. 845-853, 2005
Lexical Analysis of a Seventeenth-Century Chaghatay Treatise on Medicine
Part of Altaica Budapestinensia MMII. Proceedings of the th Permanent International Altaistic Con-ference (PIAC), p. 171-180, 2003
Reports
Other
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 69-75, 2023
- DOI for Václav Blažek, in collaboration with Michal Schwarz and Ondřej Srba: Altaic Languages. History of research, survey, classification and a sketch of comparative grammar. Brno: Masaryk University Press 2019, 358 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-9321-8.
- Download full text (pdf) of Václav Blažek, in collaboration with Michal Schwarz and Ondřej Srba: Altaic Languages. History of research, survey, classification and a sketch of comparative grammar. Brno: Masaryk University Press 2019, 358 pp. ISBN 978-80-210-9321-8.
Part of Orientalia Suecana, p. 1-4, 2023
- DOI for Benkő, Elek, Sándor, Klára, Vásáry, István: A székely írás emlékei. Corpus Mo-numentorum Alphabeto Siculico Exaratorum (CMASE) [Relics of the Székely script. Corpus Monumentorum Alphabeto Siculico Exaratorum (CMASE)]. Edited by István Vásáry. Budapest: Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont 2021. 927 pages, illustrated. Hardback 8900 Ft. ISBN 978-963-416-267-4.
- Download full text (pdf) of Benkő, Elek, Sándor, Klára, Vásáry, István: A székely írás emlékei. Corpus Mo-numentorum Alphabeto Siculico Exaratorum (CMASE) [Relics of the Székely script. Corpus Monumentorum Alphabeto Siculico Exaratorum (CMASE)]. Edited by István Vásáry. Budapest: Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont 2021. 927 pages, illustrated. Hardback 8900 Ft. ISBN 978-963-416-267-4.
Part of Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, p. 174-177, 2021
Part of Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, p. 466-470, 2019
Part of Turkic languages, p. 295-299, 2016
Sándor Klára, A székely írás nyomában. Budapest, Typotex, 2014. (353 lap)
Part of Magyar Nyelvjárások, p. 260-265, 2015
Part of Orientalistische Literaturzeitung, p. 406-408, 2014
Part of Turkic languages, p. 294-297, 2010
Part of Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, p. 241-245, 2009
Part of Wiener Zeitschrift für die Kunde des Morgenlandes, p. 509-512, 2009
Part of Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, p. 465-469, 2009
Part of Turkic languages, p. 291-296, 2009
Part of Turkic languages, p. 279-284, 2007