Gastronomic Curiosities from the Periphery of the Turkic Speaking World

This contribution offers gastronomic and etymological insights from distant corners of the Turkic speaking world, namely from Mongolia’s Khövsgöl region. Mongolia’s north-western corners of Khövsgöl region, bordering with the Tuvan Republic and Buriatia, are home of the Dukhan people, who follow a unique lifestyle centred on the herding of reindeer. Linguistically, Dukhan belongs to Taiga-Sayan Turkic, a subgroup of the Siberian branch of the Turkic languages family. On the lexical level, Dukhan includes a substantial amount of loans from Mongolic varieties and a limited number of Russian and Samoyedic loanwords.