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On writing syllabaries: Three episodes of transfer [PDF]

, 2000
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Daniels, Peter T.
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Climate change and the spread of the Transeurasian languages

Quaternary Environments and Humans
The term “Transeurasian” refers to a proposed language family stretching across Europe and northern Asia, which includes five well-established branches: Japonic, Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic. The complex range of interacting factors that drove
Martine Robbeets, Christian Leipe
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Refinitization of the Manner converb in Beja (Cushitic) [PDF]

, 2016
version avant révisionInternational audienceThis chapter, after a brief presentation (section 2) of the typological characteristics relevant for a better understanding of the data, focuses on the description and analysis of the Manner converb which ...
Vanhove, Martine
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SOME ASPECTS OF FORMING THE POPULATION OF EAST AND CENTRAL ASIA IN ANCIENT TIMES

RUDN Journal of World History, 2016
Using anthropological materials as historical sources to show the main problems of the ethnogenesis of the peoples of East and Central Asia makes it possible to understand the important and complex issues as the role of Mongolian, Chinese, Turkic ...
E B Barinova
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Some thoughts on Tungusic ethnolinguistics

Finnisch-Ugrische Forschungen, 2014
Michael Knüppel: Sprachtabus in tungusischen Sprachen und Dialekten. Am Beispiel von S. M. Širokogorovs “Tungus Dictionary”. Tunguso-Sibirica, Band 33. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2012. 131 pp.
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Additional Turkic and Tungusic Borrowings into Yukaghir III

Journal of Old Turkic Studies, 2019
Continuing on previous research, in this part of a paper series, a total of thirty-nine newly found suggested borrowings from the Turkic, Tungusic and Mongolic (and Russian) languages into the Yukaghir languages and dialects of far northeastern Siberia are presented as loanword etymologies, which is followed by the discussion of a few tentative cases ...
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Tribes «which became wind»: autochthonous substrate in ethnocultural genesis of the Yakuts revisited

Вестник археологии, антропологии и этнографии, 2018
The study of the origin of the Yakuts focuses on the ethnic history of their alien Turkic-Mongolian ancestors. Issues of mutual ethnocultural influence of local and alien ethnic groups and identification of autochthonous tribes who took part in formation
Bravina R.I., Petrov D.M.
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Control and intermediate scrambling: An investigation of Kazakh relative clauses

Glossa
This paper investigates apparent locality violations in Kazakh (Turkic) relative clauses. The empirical starting point of this study is the configuration where the genitive-marked relative clause subject establishes agreement with the noun phrase ...
Eszter Ótott-Kovács
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Pronominal declension in Altaic languages

Linguistica Brunensia, 2015
This article gives a summary of the pronominal declension in the five branches of the Altaic lan-guages (till the present time it was not realized at least in any individual branch), reconstructs pro-nominal declension for the daughter protolanguages ...
Václav Blažek, Michal Schwarz
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Endangered Languages And The Use Of Sound Archives And Fieldwork Data For Their Documentation And Revitalisation: Voices From Tundra And Taiga [PDF]

, 2010
The research program Voices from Tundra and Taiga has been devoted to the study of endangered languages and cultures of the Russian Federation, which must be described rapidly before they become extinct. This research is in the fortunate position that
de Graaf, Tjeerd
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