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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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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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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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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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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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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 ...
Natalia Aralova, Brigitte Pakendorf
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Even and the Northern Tungusic languages [PDF]
, 2020 This chapter provides a concise structural overview of the three Northern Tungusic languages spoken in the Russian Federation, namely Even, Evenki, and Negidal. Even and Evenki are spoken by people who traditionally were fully nomadic hunters and reindeer herders, whereas Negidal is spoken by a small group who were traditionally semi-sedentary fishers ...
Brigitte Pakendorf
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Мiryachit: A Culture-Specific Startle Syndrome in the Saami People. [PDF]
Mov Disord Clin PractAbstract Background Miryachit is perhaps the most complex and least understood of the culture‐specific startle syndromes that include latah and the jumping Frenchmen of Maine. Objectives We carried out a field study to evaluate startle‐induced paroxysms in the Saami to determine if it is still endemic and, if so, to contrast it with the available ...
Selikhova M +3 more
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Founder effects identify languages of the earliest Americans. [PDF]
Am J Biol AnthropolAbstract 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 ...
Nichols J.
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Mol Genet Genomic Med, 2020 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.
Luo L +9 more
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