Turkic — The Turkologist
The Turkologist — the runiform steppe to the Chagatai chancery, one literary continuum.
The Turkic historical lane, opening on ATMO’s Jarring-collection Turki manuscripts (line-by-line TEI, Perso-Arabic with transliteration) and the kaikki Old Turkic / Old Uyghur / Chagatai extracts — the Wilkens Old Uyghur dictionary and the runiform inscriptions joining as their packets and asks land.
ATMO’s manuscripts are Eastern Turki of the eighteenth to twentieth centuries — Perso-Arabic text with a full Latin transliteration on every line, marginalia served with their provenance marked — beside the Old Turkic treebank, the Wiktionary extracts for Old Turkic, Old Uyghur and Chagatai, and the West Old Turkic loanword dictionary.
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The shelves
A source wears every desk it serves — these five answer this desk. Holdings are read live from the catalog and dated; a shelf with nothing synced yet says so.
| Source | Holds | License | Status | Holdings (as of 7 November 2026) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
atmo |
texts | attribution | wired · manual | 15 docs / 4,934 passages |
ud |
treebank | nc | wired · manual | 83 docs / 329,980 passages |
westoldturkic |
dictionary | attribution | wired · manual | 480 entries |
wiktionary-recon |
dictionary | attribution | wired · manual | 376,415 entries |
wilkens-oui |
dictionary | attribution | wired · manual | 49,619 entries |
Languages on this desk (live doc-or-entry counts as of 7 November 2026): oui 50,065 · chg 614 · trk 480.
Carried in by multilingual packs (ud, wiktionary-recon — whole-source members whose other languages ride along, as of 7 November 2026): zho 327,296 · xcl 8,544 · sga 6,691 · gem-pro 5,749 · gmw-pro 5,578 … and 38 more (nabu axis turkic lists all).
The desk’s instruments
No desk-specific instruments curated yet — the generic surfaces above apply.
Working the turkic desk
The generic desk surfaces — every desk answers to these, in working order (enable once, sync, then query):
nabu enable turkic # first time: put this desk's shelves in this box's profile
nabu sync turkic # fetch/refresh the desk's enabled members
nabu list --axis turkic # the shelf census, this desk only
nabu axis turkic # the desk card: members, holdings, gold coverage
nabu search WORD --axis turkic # a query scoped to this desk's shelves
One of the 30 research desks; the flat shelf map is The Library and the reasoning is docs/axes.md.