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Permutation test applied to lexical reconstructions partially supports the Altaic linguistic macrofamily [PDF]
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2021 In this paper, we present the results of our analysis of the 110-item basic wordlists for four reconstructed and one ancient languages, the linguistic ancestors of five language families which are hypothesized to constitute the Altaic (a.k.a ...
Alexei S. Kassian +4 more
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Genomic Insights Into the Admixture History of Mongolic- and Tungusic-Speaking Populations From Southwestern East Asia [PDF]
Frontiers in Genetics, 2021 As a major part of the modern Trans-Eurasian or Altaic language family, most of the Mongolic and Tungusic languages were mainly spoken in northern China, Mongolia, and southern Siberia, but some were also found in southern China. Previous genetic surveys
Jing Chen +17 more
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The homeland of Proto-Tungusic inferred from contemporary words and ancient genomes [PDF]
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2020 The Tungusic languages form a language family spoken in Xinjiang, Siberia, Manchuria and the Russian Far East. There is a general consensus that these languages are genealogically related and descend from a common ancestral language, conventionally ...
Chuan-Chao Wang, Martine Robbeets
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Phylogenetic signal and rate of evolutionary change in language structures [PDF]
Royal Society Open Science, 2022 Within linguistics, there is an ongoing debate about whether some language structures remain stable over time, which structures these are and whether they can be used to uncover the relationships between languages.
Nataliia Hübler
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Tungusic languages: Past and present [PDF]
, 2022 Tungusic is an endangered language family that encompasses approximately twenty languages located in Siberia and northern China. These languages are distributed over an enormous area that ranges from the Yenisey River and Xinjiang in the west to the Kamchatka Peninsula and Sakhalin in the east.
Hölzl, Andreas, Payne, Thomas E.
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About millets and beans, words and genes [PDF]
Evolutionary Human Sciences, 2020 In this special collection, we address the origin and dispersal of the Transeurasian languages, i.e. Japonic, Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic, from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Martine Robbeets, Chuan-Chao Wang
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Tungusic languages – survey, classification and present state
Linguistica Brunensia, 2013 The article presents survey and new demographic data of Tungusic languages with comparison of their classification models and practical bibliography.
Michal Schwarz, Václav Blažek
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About the Non-Personal Definite Function of the Uralic 3rd Person Possessive Suffix [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2022 Finno-Ugric, Selkup, Turkic and Tungusic share a common (preferred) use of the 3rd person possessive suffix (3Px) in the non-personal definite function.
Ago Künnap
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Distances among Uralic and Other Northern Eurasian Languages [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2022 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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Linguistics, 2023 A distinction between inalienable and alienable possession is considered to be crosslinguistically common. For the Tungusic languages, it is generally illustrated with examples that contrast inherently possessed body parts with body parts belonging to a ...
Aralova Natalia, Pakendorf Brigitte
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