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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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Northeast Siberian astronomical terms [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2020 In this paper, we shall have a look at series of astronomical terms and their etymologies in a historical context, including etymologized and non-etymologized terminology in Yakut (Turkic), Written Mongolian, Dagur and Khalkha (Mongolic), Ewenki ...
Piispanen, P.S.
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Book review: Apatóczky, Á.B., Atwood, Ch.P. (eds.), Kempf, B. (g.-ed.). 2018. Philology of the Grasslands: Essays in Mongolic, Turkic, and Tungusic Studies. Leiden; Boston: Brill (The languages of Asia. Vol. 17) [PDF]
Материалы по археологии и истории античного и средневекового Причерноморья, 2022 Professor György Kara, a distinguished member of academia, celebrated his 80th birthday recently. His students and colleagues commemorated this occasion with papers on Altaic Studies.
Erk, K.
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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 ...
Pakendorf, Brigitte, Aralova, Natalia
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Complexity and Simplification in Language Shift
Frontiers in Communication, 2021 This paper examines the question of linguistic complexity in two shift ecologies in northeastern Russia. It is frequently claimed that language shift results in linguistic simplification across a range of domains in the grammars of shifting speakers ...
Jessica Kantarovich +5 more
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Spatial composition and premise arrangement of traditional Manchu village in Northeast China
JAPAN ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW, Volume 3, Issue 3, Page 346-358, July 2020., 2020 Spatial composition has changed massively even also in Shengli Village, a traditional Manchu village, because of the land and agricultural policies carried out by the government after the foundation of People's Republic of China. Especially according to the political compactification of residential area executed in the late 1960's, farmland behind the ...
Akira Ushijima +3 more
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Вопросы ономастики, 2021 The paper explores personal names of Tungusic people belonging to the Bulteger clan of the Urulgin Steppe Duma, based on State Archive census data from the Trans-Bailkal area of the early 19th century.
Raisa G. Zhamsaranova
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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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