The Inter-Comparison of Manchu-Tungusic Languages [PDF]
Manchu-Tungusic Languages, also called Tungusic Languages, refer to the languages spoken by Tungusic nations in East Siberia and Manchuria. Most languages in this language family belong to agglutinative languages. The typical word order is subject-object-verb. And they show complex systems of vowel harmony.
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Tungusic languages – survey, classification and present state
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]
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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Language policy and the loss of Tungusic languages
Lenore A Grenoble, Lindsay J Whaley
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Distances among Uralic and Other Northern Eurasian Languages [PDF]
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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Tungusic languages: Past and present
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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Northeast Siberian astronomical terms [PDF]
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]
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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Complexity and Simplification in Language Shift
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
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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