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About the Amount and Nature of Turkic-Mongolian and Turkic-Tungusic Lexical Relations in a New Perspective: the Role of the Theory of Genetic Relationship of the Altaic Languages in the Identification of Ancient Language Contacts

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2018
The article represents new facts concerning the problem of ancient language communications and facts confirming the interaction of Turkic languages with Mongolic and Tungus-Manchu ones.
Aleksey A. Burykin
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An Oirat Manuscript of ‘The Hymn to the Green Tara’ from the Collection of Midjid Lama (Uvs Province, Mongolia)

open access: yesМонголоведение, 2019
The publication examines texts devoted to the cult of the goddess Tara, the latter being revered by all Mongolic peoples which is evidenced by field materials collected between 2013 and 2016 in Uvs and Khovd Provinces of Mongolia.
Delyash N. Muzraeva
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Climate change and the spread of the Transeurasian languages

open access: yesQuaternary Environments and Humans
The term “Transeurasian” refers to a proposed language family stretching across Europe and northern Asia, which includes five well-established branches: Japonic, Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic. The complex range of interacting factors that drove
Martine Robbeets, Christian Leipe
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Y Chromosomes of 40% Chinese Are Descendants of Three Neolithic Super-grandfathers

open access: yes, 2013
Demographic change of human populations is one of the central questions for delving into the past of human beings. To identify major population expansions related to male lineages, we sequenced 78 East Asian Y chromosomes at 3.9 Mbp of the non ...
An, Yu   +15 more
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The Khalkha Mongolian, Buryat and Kalmyk Languages: Common Clothes and Footwear Denoting Lexis

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2018
The article deals with the lexis denoting pieces of clothing and footwear in the major Mongolic languages, such as Khalkha, Buryat, and Kalmyk. The research into the historical background and semantics of the lexis in question has shown that the basic ...
Anna V. Mazarchuk
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Some thoughts on "Onomastica Manjurica" : strange or amusing names in Manchu [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
The main goal of this paper is to put forward the hypothesis that (Dynastic) Manchu depreciating names may be relics of a well-known Tungusic(-Eurasian) naming custom. It is a common practice among many Eurasian societies to name children with derogatory
Alonso de la Fuente, José Andrés
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Morpho-lexical evidence for Proto-Korean-Japanese [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The hypothesis that Japanese and Korean share a common linguistic origin remains highly controversial, with detractors such as Vovin (2010) criticizing a lack of shared functional morphemes and phonological problems in proposed cognate vocabulary ...
Francis-Ratté, Alexander
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Borogon: Ethnonym and Ethnic History

open access: yesМонголоведение
Introduction. The article is devoted to the study of the origin and spread of the ethnonym Boroγon (in Russian spelling — Borogon), reflected in the names of administrative territorial units of various taxonomic levels in the territory of Yakutia during ...
Bair Z. Nanzatov, Vladimir V. Tishin
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