Vocabularies from the middle of the 20th century from Afghanistan Part two: Özbek and Moghol materials

• Published in: Acta orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 2017-12, Vol.70 (4), p.431-478
• Main Authors: Rybatzki, Volker, Mackenzie, A.F
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Historical Linguistics; Lingua francas; Linguistic research; Morphology; Philology; Phonetics / Phonology; Post-War period (1950 - 1989); Vocabulary; WW II and following years (1940 - 1949)
• ISSN: 0001-6446; 1588-2667
• DOI: 10.1556/062.2017.70.4.5

In addition to the references to Mackenzie mentioned in the first part of this paper, I found another one in Schurmann (1962, p. 13) that reads as follows: “In the late 1940s, an American named Mackenzie, then teaching in Kabul, was reputed to have come across some Mongol settlements in the Turkestan region. He made some photographs and compiled a small vocabulary. However, although he communicated his discovery to a number of scholars, none of his material has been published, to my knowledge.” This statement is also cited in Doerfer (1971, p. 228). It is to be hoped that this series of papers might lead to the discovery of Mackenzie’s photographs. Their localisation would be of indispensible importance for the ethnography, history and culture of the Turkic, Hazara and Moghol people of the northern part of Afghanistan. After writing this short introduction in the middle of 2014, the work had to be put aside due to other obligations. Not much new can now, after about four years, be said about A. F. Mackenzie. His second name was Franklin as it is stated by Dupree (1973, p. 74) who knew Mackenzie from their common time in Afghanistan where both seem to have worked for or been in contact with an American organization called Meridian.