Unveiling 2,000 years of differentiation among Tungusic-speaking populations: a revised phylogeny of the paternal founder lineage C2a-M48-SK1061 [PDF]
Frontiers in Genetics, 2023 Previous studies demonstrated Y chromosome haplogroup C2a-M48-SK1061 is the only founding paternal lineage of all Tungusic-speaking populations. To infer the differentiation history of these populations, we studied more sequences and constructed ...
Xianpeng Zhang +2 more
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Even and the Northern Tungusic languages [PDF]
, 2020 This chapter provides a concise structural overview of the three Northern Tungusic languages spoken in the Russian Federation, namely Even, Evenki, and Negidal. Even and Evenki are spoken by people who traditionally were fully nomadic hunters and reindeer herders, whereas Negidal is spoken by a small group who were traditionally semi-sedentary fishers ...
Brigitte Pakendorf
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Investigating the Prehistory of Tungusic Peoples of Siberia and the Amur-Ussuri Region with Complete mtDNA Genome Sequences and Y-chromosomal Markers [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Evenks and Evens, Tungusic-speaking reindeer herders and hunter-gatherers, are spread over a wide area of northern Asia, whereas their linguistic relatives the Udegey, sedentary fishermen and hunter-gatherers, are settled to the south of the lower Amur ...
Ana T Duggan +2 more
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Tungusic languages: Past and present [PDF]
, 2022 Tungusic is an endangered language family that encompasses approximately twenty languages located in Siberia and northern China. These languages are distributed over an enormous area that ranges from the Yenisey River and Xinjiang in the west to the Kamchatka Peninsula and Sakhalin in the east.
Hölzl, Andreas, Payne, Thomas E.
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Permutation test applied to lexical reconstructions partially supports the Altaic linguistic macrofamily [PDF]
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2021 In this paper, we present the results of our analysis of the 110-item basic wordlists for four reconstructed and one ancient languages, the linguistic ancestors of five language families which are hypothesized to constitute the Altaic (a.k.a ...
Alexei S. Kassian +4 more
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Linguistics, 2023 A distinction between inalienable and alienable possession is considered to be crosslinguistically common. For the Tungusic languages, it is generally illustrated with examples that contrast inherently possessed body parts with body parts belonging to a ...
Natalia Aralova, Brigitte Pakendorf
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The Only Known Text from Bala, an Extinct Tungusic Language
Studia Orientalia Electronica, 2021 Bala (bala1242) is an extinct Tungusic language formerly spoken in and around the Zhangguangcai mountain range in Northeast China. The language is only fragmentarily recorded.
Andreas Hölzl
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Recent progress in Tungusic lexicography
Studia Orientalia Electronica, 2015 -
Juha A. Janhunen
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Reindeer-breeding culture in Russia and Inner Mongolia (PRC) (based on the material of the reindeer-breeding vocabulary of the Evenks) [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2022 The article is dedicated to a comparative study of the vocabulary of the Evenks of Russia and China, reflecting the Evenks’ reindeer-breeding culture. Reindeer is of key importance in the spiritual culture of the Tungus.
Andreeva Tamara +3 more
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Reconstructing phonetics behind the graphic system of Evenki texts from the Rychkov archive [PDF]
Rhema. Рема, 2021 This paper discusses the graphic system of manuscripts by Konstantin Rychkov (ca. 1910) containing texts in several dialects of Evenki (Tungusic) with Russian translation.
A.V. Arkhipov, С.L. Däbritz
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