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'What's your name?' in Tungusic and beyond

open access: yes, 2022
This study investigates questions about personal names, i.e. questions correspond- ing to What’s your name? in English. This potentially universal type of question is referred to as the personal name question (PNQ). The study sketches the typological variation found in the PNQ from a cross-linguistic perspective and analyzes the synchronic typology and
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The Tungusic Languages

open access: yes, 2023
Alexander Vovin   +2 more
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Why /r/ is not a special, empty consonant in Japanese [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
International audienceIn recent work on Japanese phonology, /r/ has been argued to be a unique consonant in the Japanese phonological system, characterized by its default, unmarked and featureless nature.
Pellard, Thomas
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Altaic, so far

open access: yesMigracijske i etničke teme, 1999
This article consists of free parts. In the first one is a bibliographical survey of the most important literature that appeared in the fields of study of individual five Altaic language groups (Japanese, Korean, Manchu-Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic) as
Alexander Vovin
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Some Details from Eurasian Ethnic History – Altaic Peoples, Chinese Sources and Turania

open access: yesMigracijske i etničke teme, 2000
In the first part of the paper, the author discusses some details pertaining to the Altaic languages and the location of the Altaic homeland. As to the key question of Altaic theory – i.e.
Emil Heršak
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Typology of Sinitic (Chinese)

open access: yesEncyclopedia
Sinitic, often referred to simply as ‘Chinese’, is a well-differentiated major branch of the Sino-Tibetan family, further divided into ten commonly recognized groups (Mandarin, Jin, Wu, Gan, Xiang, Hui, Hakka, Yue, Min, and Pinghua), identified mainly on
Giorgio Francesco Arcodia, Wen Lu
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Tungus-Manchu Etymologies of Hydronyms of the Amur River Basin

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This article focuses on the toponymy of Siberia, presenting a detailed etymological analysis of the Amur River system from the perspective of spatial orientation among the Evenki and related Tungus-Manchu peoples.
Alexander Nikolaevich Varlamov   +1 more
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