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A sketch of language history in the Korean Peninsula. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 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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Religions, 2022 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
, 2022 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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EncyclopediaSinitic, often referred to simply as ‘Chinese’, is a well-differentiated major branch of the Sino-Tibetan family, further divided into ten commonly recognized groups (Mandarin, Jin, Wu, Gan, Xiang, Hui, Hakka, Yue, Min, and Pinghua), identified mainly on
Giorgio Francesco Arcodia, Wen Lu
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Elevation and fog-cloud similarity in Tibeto-Burman languages
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023 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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On the classification of the Ng Yap dialects: some thoughts on the subgrouping of Sinitic languages
Journal of Language Relationship, 2019 The Ng Yap (formerly Sze Yap) dialects are routinely considered a branch of the Yue subfamily. This paper seeks to demonstrate that, contrary to this widespread opinion, these dialects show a wide range of distinctive features which, for formal purposes ...
Orlandi Giorgio
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The modal particle ma 嘛: theoretical frames, analysis and interpretive perspectives [PDF]
, 2017 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]
, 2015 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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Advanced Science, Volume 13, Issue 17, 23 March 2026.This study clarifies the genetic patterns of paternal lineages across East Asia and Mainland Southeast Asia. Han populations are relatively homogeneous, whereas southern ethnolinguistic minorities display regional structures. Shared Y‐chromosome lineages indicate Neolithic expansions and extensive north‐south gene flow, supporting demic diffusion ...
Yunhui Liu +15 more
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Chinese “Dialects” and European “Languages”: A Comparison of Lexico-Phonetic and Syntactic Distances
LanguagesIn this article, we tested some specific claims made in the literature on relative distances among European languages and among Chinese dialects, suggesting that some language varieties within the Sinitic family traditionally called dialects are, in fact,
Chaoju Tang +3 more
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