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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Hair is an integral part of the skin's interface and has sensory capacity. It actively contributes to processes of bodily materialization and facilitates transactional exchange with other social actors and environments, particularly regarding energies and vibrations that can be perceived as subtle matter.
Sinah Theres Kloß
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Indochinese Refugee Social Assistance Programs in Europe and the United States
Refuge, 1982 One of the important functions of Refuge is the analysis and interpretation of key reports on refugees. In the last issue, we informed readers of three important studies On the resettlement of the Indo- Chinese in Canada In this issue we compare ...
Refuge Editor
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Reconstructing the population history of the Sinhalese, the major ethnic group in Śrī Laṅkā
iScience, 2023 Summary: The Sinhalese are the major ethnic group in Śrī Laṅkā, inhabiting nearly the whole length and breadth of the island. They speak an Indo-European language of the Indo-Iranian branch, which is held to originate in northwestern India, going back to
Prajjval Pratap Singh +8 more
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Accent retraction and tonogenesis [PDF]
, 2010 Like its predecessor in Zagreb, the conference on Balto-Slavic accentology in Copenhagen was a great success. The enthusiasm of the organizers Adam Hyllested and Thomas Olander proved highly effective in stimulating discussion among the participants ...
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Loanwords and Linguistic Phylogenetics: *pelek̑u‐ ‘axe’ and *(H)a(i̯)g̑‐ ‘goat’1
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 116-136, March 2025.Abstract This paper assesses the role of borrowings in two different approaches to linguistic phylogenetics: Traditional qualitative analyses of lexemes, and quantitative computational analysis of cognacy. It problematises the assumption that loanwords can be excluded altogether from datasets of lexical cognacy.
Simon Poulsen
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Oriental Studies, 2020 Introduction. The article discusses contemporary comparative-historical Altaic studies and problems of interpreting genetic and areal relations between Altaiс languages in educational discourse. Goals.
Alexey A. Burykin
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The Development of Indo‐Iranian Voiced Fricatives
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 123, Issue 1, Page 97-115, March 2025.Abstract The development of voiced sibilants is a long‐standing puzzle in Indo‐Iranian historical phonology. In Vedic, all voiced sibilants are lost from the system, but the details of this loss are complex and subject to debate. The most intriguing development concerns the word‐final ‐aḥ to ‐o in sandhi.
Gašper Beguš
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El "Lhamo" Tibetano : una mirada crítica al teatro himalayo [PDF]
, 2004 The author of this article studies the buddhist theatre of Nepal: its structure and\ud parts, its precedents from Indo-european times, its history and modem development\ud until present times' crisis due to political reasons, well-known world-wide.El ...
Alba Peinado, Carlos
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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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Reconstructing Balto-Slavic and Indo-European
Baltistica, 2014 The history of Indo-European studies shows that the reconstruction of the proto-language is likely to have a bias toward the languages on which it relies primarily. It has always been popular to explain the data of more recently attested languages from a
Frederik Kortlandt
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