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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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Even and the Northern Tungusic languages [PDF]
The Oxford Guide to the Transeurasian Languages, 2020 This chapter provides a concise structural overview of the three Northern Tungusic languages spoken in the Russian Federation, namely Even, Evenki, and Negidal.
B. Pakendorf, N. Aralova
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Sociolinguistic Aspects of Tungusic
, 2023 This chapter focuses on the current sociolinguistic status of the Tungusic languages in Russia: (Siberian) Ewenki, Neghidal, Ewen, Oroch Udihe, Nanai, Ulcha, and Uilta.
Mamontova, Nadezhda; id_orcid
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The first imperative of Tungusic [PDF]
, 2012 In this paper it will be argued that the “so-called” paradigm of the First Imperative of Tungusic is secondary. The functions attributed to the First Imperative may have been originally conveyed by particles or structures which are preserved in Manchuric. However, they were grammaticalized and modeled into a paradigm only in Common Tungusic.
Alonso de la Fuente, Jose
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About millets and beans, words and genes [PDF]
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2020 In this special collection, we address the origin and dispersal of the Transeurasian languages, i.e. Japonic, Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic, from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Martine Robbeets, Chuan-Chao Wang
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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 ...
Vladimir Osakovsky +2 more
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Comparative in Tungusic languages
Languages and Folklore of Indigenous Peoples of SiberiaThe morphological marking of adjectival comparatives, although prevalent in European languages, is a crosslinguistically uncommon feature. Grammaticalization processes in comparative markers represent a typologically underexplored field of study. Similar
V.Ju. Gusev, N. Aralova
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Rhythm Across Species: Situating Human Speech in a Comparative Framework. [PDF]
Ann N Y Acad SciWe analyzed speech rhythms from 48 human languages using methods drawn from biology and linguistics. Interonset intervals across languages are surprisingly similar, with a median value of 2 seconds., despite substantial differences in linguistic structure and prosody. A comparative rhythm analysis shows that human speech falls within the range reported
Burchardt LS, Paschen L, Fuchs S.
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Мiryachit: A Culture-Specific Startle Syndrome in the Saami People. [PDF]
Mov Disord Clin PractAbstract Background Miryachit is perhaps the most complex and least understood of the culture‐specific startle syndromes that include latah and the jumping Frenchmen of Maine. Objectives We carried out a field study to evaluate startle‐induced paroxysms in the Saami to determine if it is still endemic and, if so, to contrast it with the available ...
Selikhova M +3 more
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Additional Turkic and Tungusic Borrowings into Yukaghir V
Journal of Old Turkic Studies, 2020 In this seventh part of this paper series, additional Turkic (i.e. Yakut) and Tungusic (i.e. Ewen or Ewenki) loanword etymologies for the Yukaghir languages and dialects are presented and evaluated in semantic, phonological and other considerations and ...
Peter Piispaanen
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