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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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Slabiny velkých typologických databází [PDF]
This paper focuses on the Grambank database, a large and relatively new typological database. Like others, Grambank has many advantages (e.g. easy access to a large amount of data), but also weaknesses. Particular attention will be paid to errors related
Vít Ulman
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Book review: Apatóczky, Á.B., Atwood, Ch.P. (eds.), Kempf, B. (g.-ed.). 2018. Philology of the Grasslands: Essays in Mongolic, Turkic, and Tungusic Studies. Leiden; Boston: Brill (The languages of Asia. Vol. 17) [PDF]
Professor György Kara, a distinguished member of academia, celebrated his 80th birthday recently. His students and colleagues commemorated this occasion with papers on Altaic Studies.
Erk, K.
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The Soviet Union and its successor states have been avid supporters of a modernisation paradigm aimed at ‘overcoming remoteness’ and ‘bringing civilisation’ to the periphery and its ‘backward’ indigenous people. The Baikal–Amur Mainline (BAM) railroad, built as a much‐hyped prestige project of late socialism, is a good example of that.
Peter Schweitzer, Olga Povoroznyuk
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Early Western Sources on Tungusic
For illustrative purposes, A. A. Burykin mentions several dozens of unpublished recordings from the early 20th century stored at only a single institution in Russia, the Phonogrammic Archives of the Institute of Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
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In this study, we used typical and advanced population genetic analysis methods [principal component analysis (PCA), ADMIXTURE, FST, f3-statistics, f4-statistics, qpAdm/qpWave, qpGraph, ALDER (Admixture-induced Linkage Disequilibrium for Evolutionary ...
Jingbin Zhou +9 more
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The genetic structure and admixture of Manchus and Koreans in northeast China
Background The fine-scale genetic profiles and population history of Manchus and Koreans remain unclear. Aim To infer a fine-scale genetic structure and admixture of Manchu and Korean populations.
Na Sun +5 more
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Complexity and Simplification in Language Shift
This paper examines the question of linguistic complexity in two shift ecologies in northeastern Russia. It is frequently claimed that language shift results in linguistic simplification across a range of domains in the grammars of shifting speakers ...
Jessica Kantarovich +5 more
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The paper explores personal names of Tungusic people belonging to the Bulteger clan of the Urulgin Steppe Duma, based on State Archive census data from the Trans-Bailkal area of the early 19th century.
Raisa G. Zhamsaranova
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Nanai argument structure: Russian influence
The paper investigates two classes of verbs in the Naikhin dialect of Nanai (Tungusic; spoken mostly in the Russian Far East) that demonstrate a certain instability with respect to their argument structure in a situation where there is contact with ...
Ksenia Shagal
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