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The Unity and Diversity of Altaic [PDF]
Annual Review of Linguistics, 2023 In popular conception, Altaic is often assumed to constitute a language family, or perhaps a phylum, but in reality, it involves a historical, areal, and typological complex of five separate language families of different origins-Turkic, Mongolic ...
Janhunen, Juha A.
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On the Sogdian origin of Altaic plural suffixes *-t and *-n
Cogent Arts & HumanitiesPresently, six distinct types of number categories have been documented across global languages. Both Sogdian and Altaic languages employ singular and plural systems, Sogdian employs three common types of plural markers, such as -t (or -tā), -īšt and -ān.
Muzappar Abdurusul
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Migracijske 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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Forming an anti‐imperialist national identity in Republican China: The Finnish interpretation
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 29, Issue 1, Page 364-379, January 2023., 2023 Abstract This article focuses on Finnish national identities because they expressed the shared experiences of newly established Finnish communities, and they were crucial in constructing a new nation. It also explores created images of the Finnish and Finland, as well as community construction in Republican China, especially after Finland gained ...
Tiina H. Airaksinen
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How the diversity of human concepts of nature affects conservation of biodiversity
Conservation Biology, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 1019-1028, June 2021., 2021 Abstract Protecting nature has become a global concern. However, the very idea of nature is problematic. We examined the etymological and semantic diversity of the word used to translate nature in a conservation context in 76 of the primary languages of the world to identify the different relationships between humankind and nature.
Frédéric Ducarme +2 more
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Valuing All Languages in Europe [PDF]
, 2007 The VALEUR project (2004-2007) took as its focus the 'additional' languages of Europe. These are defined as all languages in use in contexts where they are not 'national', 'official', or 'dominant' languages.
McPake, Joanna +7 more
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Words denoting faba bean (Vicia faba) in European languages [PDF]
Ratarstvo i Povrtarstvo, 2011 Faba bean (Vicia faba L) took part in the 'agricultural revolution' of post-glacial Europe along with other grain legumes and cereals. In order to assess the diversity and the origin of the words denoting faba bean in the languages of Europe, a ...
Mikić Aleksandar
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On the Uralic Verbal Personal (*)k-Marker; 81-89 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2007 In case of Uralic verbal personal (*)k-markers we can probably come across very little etymologically common suffix-material inherent to all the Uralic language group and at times they may prove to be of Altaic origin altogether.
Ago Künnap
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Morphologic, Syntactic, and Phonologic Distance Between Japanese and Altaic, Dravidian, Austronesian, and Korean Languages [PDF]
, 2023 The present study measures the resemblances of Japanese with Altaic languages (Turkic; Tungstic; Mongolic; Nivkh); the Dravidian language Tamil; Austronesian languages (Western Malayo-Polynesian; Malayo-Sumbawan; Central Luzon; Central Malayo-Polynesian),
Li, Wenchao, Wenchao Li
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Paleolinguistics brings more light on the earliest history of the traditional Eurasian pulse crops [PDF]
, 2011 Traditional pulse crops such as pea, lentil, field bean, bitter vetch, chickpea and common vetch originate from Middle East, Mediterranean and Central Asia^1^.
Aleksandra Ignjatovic-Cupina +13 more
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