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Permutation test applied to lexical reconstructions partially supports the Altaic linguistic macrofamily [PDF]

open access: yesEvolutionary Human Sciences, 2021
In this paper, we present the results of our analysis of the 110-item basic wordlists for four reconstructed and one ancient languages, the linguistic ancestors of five language families which are hypothesized to constitute the Altaic (a.k.a ...
Alexei S. Kassian   +4 more
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Europe: so many languages, so many cultures [PDF]

open access: yesWacana: Journal of the Humanities of Indonesia, 2011
The number of different languages in Europe by far exceeds the number of countries. All European countries have national languages, and in nearly all of them there are minority languages as well, whereas all major languages have dialects.
Hein Steinhauer
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Indo-Uralic and Altaic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Elsewhere I have argued that the Indo-European verbal system can be understood in terms of its Indo-Uralic origins because the reconstructed Indo-European endings can be derived from combinations of Indo-Uralic morphemes by a series of well-motivated phonetic and analogic developments (2002).
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Fire, Flood and War from the East: Cultural Transfer in Altaic Modern Eschatology [PDF]

open access: diamondStudia Litterarum, 2018
The article examines modern Altai eschatology from the standpoint of cultural transfer. For this purpose, it gives an overview of sources of Altai eschatology, including the main versions (subtradition) of Altai eschatology as well as its oral and ...
Dmitrii Y. Doronin
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Altaic, so far

open access: yesMigracijske i etničke teme, 1999
This article consists of free parts. In the first one is a bibliographical survey of the most important literature that appeared in the fields of study of individual five Altaic language groups (Japanese, Korean, Manchu-Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic) as
Alexander Vovin
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Some Details from Eurasian Ethnic History – Altaic Peoples, Chinese Sources and Turania

open access: greenMigracijske i etničke teme, 2000
In the first part of the paper, the author discusses some details pertaining to the Altaic languages and the location of the Altaic homeland. As to the key question of Altaic theory – i.e.
Emil Heršak
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Slavic languages in contact, 10: “Altaic” loanwords in Proto-Slavic – a contribution to the debate

open access: diamondStudia Linguistica Universitatis Cracoviensis
A discussion of the problem of “Altaic” influence on Proto-Slavic is the main focus of this paper.
Marek Stachowski
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Chapter 14. Ural-Altaic

open access: diamond, 2014
The paper reviews the data concerning the nominal inflectional morphology in the chain of languages comprising Uralic, Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Koreanic and Japonic, collectively termed “Ural-Altaic”. Although nominal morphology has traditionally been quoted in support of the hypothesis concerning the genetic relationship of these languages, a more ...
Chingduang Yurayong
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