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The Uvular Sounds of Sino-Tibetan
Bulletin of Chinese Linguistics, 2010Many languages in the Sino-Tibetan family have uvular sounds. Some scholars have put forward the hypothesis that there should be a set of uvular sounds in Proto-Sino-Tibetan. This paper attempts to evaluate this hypothesis through the following aspects: (1) the synchronic distribution of uvular sounds in modern Sino-Tibetan languages; (2) a review of ...
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Problems in Sino-Tibetan Phonetics
Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1944course talayya] "): " Gott mige die [there is no article in the text] vier Wasserleitungen erhalten," etc., foregetting that a sentence introduced by waqad cannot express a wish but refers to the past. Finally,59 the word dmk,60 which appears on line 29 together with the horses, she-asses, mules, and camels upon the welfare of which the faithful ...
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A phylogenetic analysis of dispersal norms, descent and subsistence in Sino-Tibetans
Evolution and Human Behavior, 2022Ruth Mace, Hanzhi Zhang, Ting Ji
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Sino-Tibetan: Mandarin Chinese
2009While in some languages compounding can be considered peripheral, in Chinese compounding is the most productive means of word formation. It has been shown that approximately 80% of Chinese words are compound words (Xing, 2006). In the corpus of neologisms proposed in The Contemporary Chinese Dictionary (2002) more than 90% of all new words are ...
CECCAGNO, ANTONELLA, B. BASCIANO
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The Tibetanization of Henan’s Mongols: ethnicity and assimilation on the Sino-Tibetan frontier
Asian Ethnicity, 2016Gerald Roche
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