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0199 Southern Tibet : vol.1
南チベット : vol.1
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doi: 10.20676/00000263
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and Yule adds that the country was always reckoned as a part of the Empire of
the Mongol Kaans in the period of their greatness. ¹

Marco Polo calls the musk animal Gudderi in the Tartar, i. e. Mongol
language, which is correct.² In the beginning of the Venetian narrative we are told
that Marco advanced wondrously in learning the language of the Tartars and their
manner of writing, »in fact he came in brief space to know several languages, and
four sundry written characters».³ Scholars seem not to agree which these four
languages have been, Mongol, Uighur, Arabic, Persian, and Chinese having been
suggested from different quarters. It has also been suggested that the fourth lang-
uage may have been Tibetan. This view is corroborated by the fact that Marco
uses the Tibetan word Beyamini for designating the wild oxen.⁴ He is therefore
probably the first European, who has ever picked up and used a Tibetan word,
as Plano Carpini was the first to make the name Tibet known in Europe, and
Odorico de Pordenone the first to travel through Tibet.