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Mongolian oral epic poetry : an overview [PDF]
Mongolian tuuli, or epic poetry, the most important genre in Mongolian literary history, is a vast tradition of orally composed works. Accompanied by musical instruments such as the tobshur and the choor, tuuli relates these nomadic peoples' glorious ...
Gejin, Chao
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Postcolonial transitions on the southern borders of the former Soviet Union: the return of Eurasianism? [PDF]
As the Soviet Union dissolved into a new territorial reality, it released the doubly repressed histories of Tsarist and Soviet imperium. In the states to the south of the new Russian Federation, the post-soviet jostled with the postcolonial as nations ...
Bowring, Bill
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The end of “Eskimo land”: Yupik relocation in Chukotka, 1958-1959 [PDF]
Fifty years ago, in summer 1958, Russian authorities started a program of massive relocation of the Yupik population on the Chukchi Peninsula, Siberia. About 800 people, or roughly 70% of the small nation of 1,100 at that time, were forced to leave their
Chlenov, Mikhail, Krupnik, Igor
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Kalmyk Movable Types Made in Saint Petersburg
Introduction. In the 19th and early 20th centuries a considerable number of books, articles, brochures and commercial advertisements in the Kalmyk language were printed in Russia using the movable type of the font known as the “clear script”.
Vladimir L. Uspensky +1 more
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Translation and linguistic innovation : the rise and fall of Russian loanwords in literary translation into Dutch [PDF]
This paper examines the use of Russian loanwords in Dutch translations of Russian literary texts from the period 1970-2009. In an increasingly globalized world, as more information is exchanged across cultural borders worldwide, one might expect a growth
Van Poucke, Piet
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Massive migration from the steppe is a source for Indo-European languages in Europe
We generated genome-wide data from 69 Europeans who lived between 8,000-3,000 years ago by enriching ancient DNA libraries for a target set of almost four hundred thousand polymorphisms. Enrichment of these positions decreases the sequencing required for
A Keller +81 more
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The article describes chronological characteristics of the written monuments in «Сlear Script». The development process of the peculiar Oirat (Kalmyk) literature, written in «Clear Script» can be divided into two periods.
E. Bembeev
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At present, investigations of diverse concepts - such as ‘size’, ‘color’, ‘form’, ‘flavor’, ‘temperature’, etc. - constitute one of the most relevant research trends within modern linguistics.
S. E. Bachaeva
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Exploring Written Literacy of Mongolians: The Official Cyrillic Writing System
Introduction. The aricle studies the Cyrillic literacy of Mongolians through the use of sociolinguistic methods. Mongolians had been using the Mongolian script from ancient times through 1921, and since then by the 1930s the traditional script was ...
Gerelma Guruchin, Daria B. Gedeeva
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New species and records of Stenus (Nestus) of the canaliculatus group, with the erection of a new species group (Insecta: Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Steninae) [PDF]
The canaliculatus species group of Stenus (Nestus) is redefined. Four new Palaearctic species of the group are described and illustrated: S. (N.) alopex sp. nov. from the Putorana Highland and Taymyr Peninsula, Russia; S. (N.) canalis sp. nov.
Ryvkin, Alexandr Borisovich
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