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The first batch of 23 autosomal STR profiles of Ha Hlai, one important branch of Hainan Li (Hlai), were obtained and reported by genotyping 657 Ha Hlai individuals (497 males and 160 females) utilizing the Huaxia™ Platinum PCR Amplification System.
Wenhui Li +14 more
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Why are fog, dew, and frost said to “fall” in some languages when they don’t in the physical world? We explore this seeming infelicity to study the nature of linguistic conceptualization. We focus on variations and changes of the morphosemantic behaviors
Sicong Dong +3 more
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Abstract Background Shaanxi province, located in the upper Yellow River, has been evidenced as the geographic origin of Chinese civilization, Sino‐Tibetan‐speaking language, and foxtail or broomcorn millet farmers via the linguistic phylogenetic spectrum, archeological documents, and genetic evidence. Nowadays, Han Chinese is the dominant population in
Luyao Li +6 more
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A sketch of language history in the Korean Peninsula. [PDF]
Among 7100 languages spoken on Earth, the Koreanic language is the 13th largest, with about 77 million speakers in and around the Korean Peninsula.
Sean Lee
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Genetic diversity and forensic characteristics were investigated in four Tibetan‐Burmese ethnic corridor populations. The 30 insertion/deletion polymorphism can be used for forensic personal identification in Dujiangyan Tibetans, Muli Tibetans, Xichang Yis, and Yanyuan Mosuos.
Xing Zou +10 more
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Chán Buddhist literature is not only an important source for the study of religious thought during the Chinese late medieval and early modern periods, but also constitutes a treasure trove for investigating the development of the colloquial language of ...
Chen Zeng, Christoph Anderl
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Interactions of Sinitic Languages: Introduction
This chapter provides an overview of the selection of the chapters included in Section 3 of The Palgrave Handbook of Chinese Language Studies. The chapters present a broad picture of the dynamic interactions within Sinitic languages and of those between Sinitic languages and non-Sinitic languages, and explore how such interactions have influenced the ...
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Elevation and fog-cloud similarity in Tibeto-Burman languages
Lexically, 52.99% of the Tibeto-Burman languages, the non-Sinitic branches of the Sino-Tibetan language family, treat fog as something identical or similar to cloud, based on our database of 234 Tibeto-Burman varieties; there are three lexical relations ...
Hongdi Ding, Sicong Dong
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The modal particle ma 嘛: theoretical frames, analysis and interpretive perspectives [PDF]
This article sets out to provide a semantic and pragmatic account of the modal particle ma 嘛, endeavouring to put into light new aspects in its function which, at present, remain widely unexplored in the literature.
Lepadat, Carmen
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短语切分、重点突出与形态声调学:永宁摩梭话的语句如何形成声调组 [PDF]
International audienceYongning Na is a Sino-Tibetan language spoken in an area straddling the border between Yunnan and Sichuan. The Yongning Na tone system is based on three levels: L, M, and H.
Michaud, Alexis
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