The journal Turkic Languages is devoted to linguistic Turcology. It addresses descriptive, comparative, synchronic, diachronic, theoretical, and methodological problems of the study of Turkic languages including questions of genetic, typological and areal relations, linguistic variation, and language acquisition. The journal aims at presenting work of current interest on a variety of subjects, and thus welcomes contributions on all aspects of Turkic language studies. It contains articles, review articles, reviews, discussions, reports, and surveys of publications. The journal uses a double blind review system in selecting articles for publication. The preferred language of publication is English. From the contents (altogether 8 contributions): Alina Dochu, The Turkic origin of some East Slavic names of birds Hendrik Boeschoten, Contributions to the lexicography of early Middle Turkic. Part 2 Aminem Memtimin, The Eynu in Xinjiang İbrahim Ahmet Aydemir, Modal structures in Altay Tuvan Florian Siegl, Negation in Taimyr Dolgan