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Distances among Uralic and Other Northern Eurasian Languages [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2022 The present occurrence or non-occurrence of 46 structural features is analyzed in language groups ranging from Finnic to Eskimo-Aleut. Normalized measures of commonalities and distances between two languages are developed and used for graphical ...
Rein Taagepera, Ago Künnap
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Genomic insight into the population history of Central Han Chinese
Annals of Human Biology, 2021 Background In recent decades, considerable attention has been paid to exploring the population genetic characteristics of Han Chinese, mainly documenting a north-south genetic substructure.
Xiaomin Yang +11 more
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Spatial composition and premise arrangement of traditional Manchu village in Northeast China
JAPAN ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW, Volume 3, Issue 3, Page 346-358, July 2020., 2020 Spatial composition has changed massively even also in Shengli Village, a traditional Manchu village, because of the land and agricultural policies carried out by the government after the foundation of People's Republic of China. Especially according to the political compactification of residential area executed in the late 1960's, farmland behind the ...
Akira Ushijima +3 more
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International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics, 2020 Abstract This paper reviews 98 etymologies for which a Proto-Tungusic reconstruction with a long vowel has been suggested. It is shown that primary long vowels in non-first syllables are preserved only in the Ewenic branch of Tungusic. On the other hand, a number of the diphthongs in Southern Tungusic must be considered original.
Robbeets, M. ; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2860-0230 +1 more
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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 ...
Ana T Duggan +9 more
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Northeast Siberian astronomical terms [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2020 In this paper, we shall have a look at series of astronomical terms and their etymologies in a historical context, including etymologized and non-etymologized terminology in Yakut (Turkic), Written Mongolian, Dagur and Khalkha (Mongolic), Ewenki ...
Piispanen, P.S.
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A tribute to Elizaveta Ubryatova: professional life and personal destiny [PDF]
, 2015 The article was submitted on 10.06.2015. Translated by Dr. Lilia Gorelova.In Russia, the name of prominent turkologist Elizaveta Ivanovna Ubryatova, at present is known mostly to specialists who study the languages spoken by the Northern peoples of the ...
Shirobokova, N. +1 more
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Conditions on Iterative Rounding Harmony in Oroqen [PDF]
, 2017 In this paper, we re-examine the claim that Baiyinna Oroqen, a language of the Tungusic family with a largely predictable distribution of non-high round vowels, requires a non-iterative type of rounding harmony, by demonstrating instead the need for a ...
Dresher, BE, Nevins, A
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, 2020 Broomcorn and foxtail millets were being cultivated in the West Liao River basin in Northeast China by at least the sixth millennium BCE. However, when and how millet agriculture spread from there to the north and east remains poorly understood. Here, we
Hudson, M. +4 more
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Linguistic Discovery, 2002 A problem set that focuses on vowel harmony in Oroqen, a Tungusic language.
Lindsay J. Whaley
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