User:BurakD53/Preslav inscription

Preslav inscription, is a Bulgar Turkic inscription that Venicetov found in a church near the city of Preslav and published in 1946. The inscription is written in the Greek alphabet.

The Preslav Inscription is of great importance today, as it is one of the limited resources we can reach about the Danube Bulgar language.

Transcription
According to Turcologists such as J. Deny and Fr. Altheim, the text describes soldiers dressed in armor or a weapon inventory. O. A. Mudrak wrote in his study that there were philological errors in both translations prepared before it, because J. Deny and Fr. Altheim did not consider the Turkic writing system and translated the vocabulary very freely. In addition, according to him, the repetitions in the inscription clearly show the structure of the text.

Analysis of the text shows that what is written between the : signs is numbers.

The original text was spelled by O. A. Mudrak:


 * † ΖΗΤ ΧΩΝ ΗΤΖΗΡΓΩΝ ΒΩΥΛΕ ΧΩΥΜΣΧ ΧΥΠΕ 455 ΤΩΥΛΣΧΗ 540 ΕΣΤΡΩΓΗΝ ΧΥΠΕ 427 ΤΩΥΛΣΧΗ 854 ΤΩΥΡΤΩΥΝΑ ΠΗΛΕ ΖΩΠΑΝ ΕΣΤΡΩΓΗΝ ΧΥΠΕ 20 ΤΩΥΛΣΧΗ 40 ΑΛΧΑΣΗ ΧΥΠΕ 1 ΧΛΩΥΒΡΗΝ
 * † ζητ χων ητζηργων βωυλε χωυμσχ χυπε 455 τωυλσχη 540 εστρωγην χυπε 427 τωυλσχη 854 τωυρτωυνα πηλε ζωπαν εστρωγην χυπε 20 τωυλσχη 40 αλχαση χυπε 1 χλωυβρην

Its transcription is as follows:


 * † žit kon ićirgon bule kumči kipe 455 tulči 540 estrogin kipe 427 tulči 854 turtuna pile žopan estrigin kipe 20 tulči 40 alkasi kipe 1 klubrin