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Frontiers in Genetics, 2021 As a major part of the modern Trans-Eurasian or Altaic language family, most of the Mongolic and Tungusic languages were mainly spoken in northern China, Mongolia, and southern Siberia, but some were also found in southern China. Previous genetic surveys
Jing Chen +17 more
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Images of the Pleiades of the Turkic and Mongolic Peoples
МонголоведениеIntroduction. The Pleiades star cluster (hereinafter referred to as a constellation) was of extreme importance in the lives of the nomads of Inner and Central Asia of all the astral objects visible in the night sky.
Marina M. Sodnompilova, Bair Z. Nanzatov
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Northeast Siberian astronomical terms [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2020 In this paper, we shall have a look at series of astronomical terms and their etymologies in a historical context, including etymologized and non-etymologized terminology in Yakut (Turkic), Written Mongolian, Dagur and Khalkha (Mongolic), Ewenki ...
Piispanen, P.S.
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Hair in Mythological Human Anatomy and Ritual Practice of Turkic and Mongolic Peoples
Etnografia, 2023 A B S T R A C T. This article continues the studies of human anatomy in the traditional views of the Turkic and Mongolic peoples of Inner Asia. From the standpoint of mythological anatomy, typical of the traditional worldview of the Turkic and Mongolic ...
М. М. Содномпилова +2 more
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Concentric. Studies in Linguistics, 2023 Numeral classifiers are one of the most common types of nominal classification systems. Their geographical distribution worldwide is concentrated in Asia, which infers a scheme of diffusion from a linguistic innovation.
Marc Allassonnière-Tang +3 more
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Монголоведение, 2022 Eastern Yugur is a Mongolic language spoken in Kangle and Mati districts of Gansu Province, China. Eastern Yugur is one of the languages spoken by the Yellow Uyghurs divided into two groups: the endonym of the Mongolic-speaking group is ‘Šera Yogor’, and
Zayana I. Mandzhieva
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Two Rhyming Mongolic Words in Kitan Assembled Script
Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae, 2021 This note discusses the reading, the meaning and the history of two Mongolic words, šawa ‘bird of prey’ and čala ‘stone’ of the Kitan language written in the second of the two writing systems of the Kitan Liao Empire, the assembled, or composite, or as ...
Wu Yingzhe, J. Janhunen
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Mongolic Languages: Lexical Semantic Groups of Locative Nouns Described
Oriental Studies, 2022 Introduction. The article deals with lexical means of expressing the category of locativity, the latter to serve a basic concept of space. Descriptions of locative parts of speech in typological works analyzing different languages make it possible to ...
Liudmila A. Lidzhieva +3 more
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The Spatial Concept ‘Proximity’: Linguistic Expressive Means in Mongolic Languages Reviewed
Монголоведение, 2022 Introduction. The article deals with key lexical and morphological means of expressing the spatial concept of proximity in Mongolic languages. Such lexical means include adjectives, adverbs and verbs, while morphological ones are case forms and ...
Liudmila A. Lidzhieva +4 more
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Words Denoting the Sky in Mongolic Languages: Etymology and Semantics
Oriental Studies, 2022 Introduction. The articles examines etymologies and semantics of Mongolic words denoting the sky. The system of astronomical terms in Mongolic languages is structurally complicated due to multiple layers of pre-Buddhist, Buddhist and other beliefs ...
Anna V. Dybo +5 more
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