Orkhon inscriptions

The Orkhon inscriptions are bilingual texts in Middle Chinese and Old Turkic, the latter written in the Old Turkic alphabet, carved into two memorial steles erected in the early 8th century by the Göktürks in the Orkhon Valley in what is modern-day .
Wikipedia
  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: Göktürk inscriptions dating to the 8th century
  • Also known as: “Khöshöö Tsaidam inscriptions” and “Old Turkic inscriptions”

Orkhon inscriptions

Latitude
47.5608° or 47° 33′ 39″ north
Longitude
102.83628° or 102° 50′ 11″ east
Open location code
8PV4HR6P+8G
Open­Street­Map ID
way 397172726
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Wiki­data ID
Q334704
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Yakut—“Orkhon inscriptions” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “የኦርኾን ጽሑፎች”
  • Amharic: “የኦርኾን ጽሕፈት”
  • Arabic: “كتابات أورخون”
  • Asturian: “Inscripciones d’Orkhon”
  • Asturian: “Inscripciones de Orjón”
  • Azerbaijani: “Orxon abidələri”
  • Bashkir: “Орхон яҙмалары”
  • Bulgarian: “Орхонска азбука”
  • Bulgarian: “Орхонска писменост”
  • Bulgarian: “Орхонски надписи”
  • Bulgarian: “Орхонски руни”
  • Bulgarian: “Тюркски руни”
  • Catalan: “inscripcions de l’Orkhon”
  • Catalan: “Inscripcions de l’Orkhon”
  • Catalan: “Runes turqueses”
  • Chinese: “鄂尔浑碑铭”
  • Danish: “Orkhon-indskrifterne”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kıtabey Orhuni”
  • Dutch: “Gokturk Geschriften”
  • Dutch: “Göktürk Geschriften”
  • Dutch: “Gokturkse inscripties”
  • Dutch: “Göktürkse inscripties”
  • Dutch: “Orchon inscripties”
  • Dutch: “Orchoninscripties”
  • Dutch: “Orchonschrift”
  • Dutch: “Orhun Geschriften”
  • Dutch: “Orhun Yazitlari”
  • Dutch: “Orhun Yazıtları”
  • Dutch: “Orkhon-runnen”
  • Esperanto: “Orĥona surskribo”
  • French: “Inscriptions de l’Orkhon”
  • German: “Alttürkische Schrift”
  • German: “Orchon-Inschriften”
  • German: “Orchon-Runen”
  • German: “Türkische Runen”
  • Hebrew: “כתובות אורחון”
  • Hindi: “पुरानी तुर्की लिपि”
  • Hungarian: “orhoni feliratok”
  • Italian: “Iscrizioni dell’Orhon”
  • Italian: “Iscrizioni dell’Orkhon”
  • Japanese: “オルホン碑文”
  • Japanese: “突厥碑文”
  • Kazakh: “Орхон жазба ескерткіштері”
  • Kirghiz: “Орхон-Энесай таш жазуулары”
  • Korean: “괵튀르크 문자”
  • Korean: “옛 투르크 문자”
  • Korean: “오르콘 문자”
  • Korean: “오르혼 비문”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Scrive turces vea”
  • Macedonian: “Орхонски натписи”
  • Mongolian: “Орхон-Руни бичиг”
  • Mongolian: “Руни бичиг”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Orkhon-inskripsjonene”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Orkhoninskripsjonene”
  • Norwegian: “Orkhoninskripsjonene”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Inscripcions d’Orkhon”
  • Persian: “سنگ‌نبشته اورخون”
  • Persian: “سنگ‌نوشته اورخون”
  • Polish: “Alfabet staroturecki”
  • Polish: “Kok turk”
  • Polish: “Pismo orchon”
  • Polish: “Pismo orchońskie”
  • Polish: “Runy tureckie”
  • Portuguese: “Inscrições de Orcom”
  • Portuguese: “Inscrições de Orkhon”
  • Romanian: “Alfabet runic turcic”
  • Russian: “Кошо-Цайдам”
  • Russian: “Орхонские надписи”
  • Slovenian: “Orhonski napisi”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اورخون داش‌یازمالاری”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اورخون کتیبه لری”
  • Spanish: “Alfabeto de Orjon-Yenisei”
  • Spanish: “Alfabeto de Orjón-Yeniséi”
  • Spanish: “Alfabeto de Orjon”
  • Spanish: “Alfabeto de Orjón”
  • Spanish: “Alfabeto de Orkhon”
  • Spanish: “Alfabeto runico de Orjon”
  • Spanish: “Alfabeto rúnico de Orjón”
  • Spanish: “Alfabeto runico de Orkhon”
  • Spanish: “Alfabeto rúnico de Orkhon”
  • Spanish: “Inscripciones de Orjon”
  • Spanish: “Inscripciones de Orjón”
  • Spanish: “Inscripciones Orkhon”
  • Swedish: “Orchoninskrifterna”
  • Tatar: “Orxon yazmaları”
  • Thai: “อักษรออร์กอน”
  • Thai: “อักษรออร์คอน”
  • Turkish: “Orhun Yazıtları”
  • Uighur: “ئورقۇن-يېنسەي يېزىقى”
  • Uzbek: “O’rxun yozuvlari”
  • Uzbek: “Oʻrxun yozuvlari”
  • Yakut: “Былыргы түүр бичигэ”

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