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The Khakas-Altaian Mythonym Ker and the Proto-Yenissean Word for ‘Mammoth’. 2
Вопросы ономастики, 2023 The article continues the research on the names of mammoth or other mammoth-like monsters as characteristic elements of the mythological onomasticon of some Siberian traditions (Turkic, Yenissean, Tungusic).
Vladimir V. Napolskikh
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Are Mongolian and Tungus genetically related? [PDF]
, 2010 It is no secret that Gerhard Doerfer has argued strongly against a genetic relationship between the Mongolic and Tungusic languages. Ten years ago he presented a detailed analysis of the Mongolo-Tungusic vocabulary (1985).
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language
Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 29-52, March 2026.Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
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Comments on Allan Bomhard, “The Origins of Proto-Indo-European: The Caucasian substrate hypothesis” [PDF]
, 2019 The main claims of Bomhard's paper are that PIE originated in Central Asia, which accounts for its Eurasiatic properties such as resemblant pronouns (Uralic, IE, Kartvelian, Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic) and originally agglutinating morphology; then it ...
Nichols, J
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N morphology and its interpretation : the neuter in Central Italian varieties and its implications [PDF]
, 2015 We characterize Romance inflectional class morphology in Nouns as endowed with a semantic content, providing evidence about its active involvement at the syntaxsemantic interface.
Franco, Ludovico +2 more
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, 2010 Elsewhere I have argued that the Indo-European verbal system can be understood in terms of its Indo-Uralic origins because the reconstructed Indo-European endings can be derived from combinations of Indo-Uralic morphemes by a series of well-motivated ...
Kortlandt, Frederik H. H.
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Mitochondrially-Encoded Adenosine Triphosphate Synthase 6 Gene Haplotype Variation Among World Population During 2003-2013 [PDF]
, 2016 Background: Adaptation and natural selection serve as an important part of evolution. Adaptation in molecular level can lead to genetic drift which causes mutation of genetic material; one of which is polymorphism of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). The aim of
Dewanto, J. B. (Julius) +2 more
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Founder effects identify languages of the earliest Americans
American Journal of Biological Anthropology, Volume 186, Issue 1, January 2025.Abstract The known languages of the Americas comprise nearly half of the world's language families and a wide range of structural types, a level of diversity that required considerable time to develop. This paper proposes a model of settlement and expansion designed to integrate current linguistic analysis with other prehistoric research on the ...
Johanna Nichols
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Some Rare and Little-Known Military Terms from 17th-Century Mongol Chronicles Revisited
Oriental Studies, 2023 Goals. The study attempts etymological analyses of several rare military terms attested in 17th-century Mongol chronicles. The following terms are specifically touched upon in the article: aγuraγ ~ aγuruγ ‘base camp’, bayirildu- ‘to battle each other ...
Pavel O. Rykin
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On the expression of TAM on nouns: evidence from Tundra Nenets [PDF]
, 2015 The paper aims to enrich the database of independent time-related morphology on nouns and contribute to the discussion of its categorization by examining the so-called predestinative forms in Tundra Nenets (Uralic).
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