Khakimzianov, F. Epigraphic Monuments of Volga Bulgaria and Their Language (Epigraficheskie pamiatniki Volzhskoi Bulgarii i ikh iazyk). 1987. In Russian.

Хакимзянов, Фарид Сабирзянович. Эпиграфические памятники Волжской Булгарии и их язык / отв. ред. чл.-корр. АН СССР Э.Р. Тенишев ; АН СССР, Казанский филиал, Ин-т яз., лит. и истории им. Г. Ибрагимова.
Москва : Наука, 1987. 191, [1] с. : ил. 22 см.
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Khakimzianov, Farid S. Epigraphic Monuments of Volga Bulgaria and Their Language / ed. by Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Sciences E.R. Tenishev ; USSR Academy of Sciences, Kazan Branch, G. Ibragimov Institute of Language, Literature and History.
Moscow : Nauka, 1987. Pp. 191, [1] : ill. 22 cm.
Paper wrappers. Print run of 1,300 copies.
Condition good: light age-related wear consistent with the publication date.

Farid Sabirzhanovich Khakimzianov (1934-2008) was a leading Soviet specialist in the historical linguistics and epigraphy of medieval Volga Bulgaria, affiliated with the G. Ibragimov Institute of Language, Literature and History of the Kazan Branch of the USSR Academy of Sciences. This volume is a direct scholarly sequel to his earlier monograph Iazyk epitafii volzhskikh bulgar (The Language of the Epitaphs of the Volga Bulgars, Moscow: Nauka, 1978), which had treated the corpus of r-marker inscriptions; the present work turns to the complementary z-marker group of Arabic-script tombstone inscriptions from the 13th and 14th centuries. The monograph opens with a survey of the sociolinguistic situation in medieval Volga Bulgaria - a major Turkic polity of the Middle Volga and Ural region, destroyed by the Mongols in 1236 - before proceeding to a full descriptive grammar of the z-marker epigraphic corpus: graphophonetics, morphology (noun, adjective, numeral, pronoun, verb, postpositions, conjunctions), and lexicon, with a comprehensive glossary. A substantial appendix reproduces photographs and ink rubbings of the monuments alongside transcriptions and Russian translations, supplemented by an index of personal names, a gazetteer of findspots, and a bibliography. The book thus functions simultaneously as a linguistic monograph and a primary source publication, placing the edited texts directly before the specialist reader. The z/r distinction - central to 20th-century debates on the classification of Bulgar and its relationship to modern Chuvash - gives this study lasting methodological relevance in Turkic comparative linguistics. The series editor is Edkham Rakhimovich Tenishev (1921-2004), corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences and one of the foremost Turcologists of the Soviet era, whose participation lends considerable authority to the edition. With a print run of only 1,300 copies and distribution through the Nauka academic network, the volume has remained difficult to locate outside major library collections.