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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
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The Shoshoolog: Ethnonym and Ethnic History
Монголоведение, 2021 Introduction. This article under takes a study of the clan name Shoshoolog (Šošōlog) in the context of ethnogenesis and ethnic history of the Mongolic and Turkic peoples of Inner Asia and Siberia.
Bair Z. Nanzatov, Vladimir V. Tishin
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Ordinal Numerals as a Criterion for Subclassification: The Case of Semitic
Transactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.Abstract This article explores how ordinal numerals (like first, second and third) can help classify languages, focusing on the Semitic language family. Ordinals are often formed according to productive derivational processes, but as a separate word class, they may retain archaic morphology that is otherwise lost from the language.
Benjamin D. Suchard
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Specific Phrasemes with Ethnonyms and their Study by Corpus Analysis
Jaunųjų Mokslininkų Darbai, 2017 This article studies the phrasemes comprising an ethnonym in the source language (French) as well as the target language (Slovak). This approach is contrastive and the phrasemes have been classified according to the type of equivalence (total equivalent,
Iveta Dinžíková
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, 2012 As developed in the fields of anthropology and sociology, the concept of ethnicity offers one possible approach to analyzing diversity in the population of ancient Egypt.
Baines, John, Riggs, Christina
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Sobre el etnónimo de los gálatas (y de los celtas)
Gerión, 2002 Some of the traditional explanations for the name of the Celtae have no typological paralell at all. The old name of the Celtae could be well preserved in the ethnonym Galatai, which could be explained as *gala- ´end, limit, border´ and *tai `those, they´
Xaverio Ballester
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Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2003 The focus of this paper is in formulating a framework where the relationship between such units toponyms, ethnonyms and glossonyms is established in a systematic way.
Pedro Lusakalalu
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Objects as Knowledgeable Elders: Lessons From the Reindeer Calf Halter Mȯnggu̇i
Museum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.ABSTRACT This article presents ongoing research that reconnects a historical ethnographic collection housed in a European museum with the descendants of its source communities in the transnational Inner Asian region, specifically among the Tozhu and Tukha reindeer herders of the Tyva Republic and Mongolia.
Victoria Soyan Peemot
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Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Volume 36, Issue 1, Page 277-298, November 2025.ABSTRACT This article presents an unpublished Sabaic inscription from the ʾAwām sanctuary of ʾAlmaqah, near Maʾrib. The inscription sheds new light on the mid‐third century ad adventures of a mqtwy (‘officer’) of the Sabaean kings already known from epigraphic evidence: Whbʾwm Yʾḏf.
Justine Potts
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