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Genomic insight into the population history of Central Han Chinese
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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Distances among Uralic and Other Northern Eurasian Languages [PDF]
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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19 X‐STRs can afford a reliable and informative database of Guizhou Tujia population for human identification and paternity testing, especially in complex biological relations. The genetic relationships of Chinese populations are significantly influenced by the geographic position and ethnolinguistic origin.
Li Luo +9 more
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Spatial composition and premise arrangement of traditional Manchu village in Northeast China
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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Northeast Siberian astronomical terms [PDF]
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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Non-verbal predication in Tungusic languages
This chapter describes non-verbal predication in several Tungusic languages spoken in northern Asia based mainly on descriptive grammars. Although these languages are relatively homogenous in their means of expressing non-verbal predication, at a finergrained level differences emerge. In particular, Manchu stands out in its use of an invariant particle-
Pakendorf, Brigitte
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Bala (China) – Language Snapshot
Bala is a Tungusic language of the Jurchenic subbranch recorded by Mu Yejun 穆晔骏 (1926‒1989) and other researchers. The language was spoken by people living in the Zhangguangcai mountain range (zhangguangcai ling 张广才岭) in Northeast China.
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A problem set that focuses on vowel harmony in Oroqen, a Tungusic language.
Lindsay J. Whaley
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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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Recent progress in Tungusic lexicography
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Juha A. Janhunen
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