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Status of Dulguyak-Qadai in Tuvan Traditional Culture: Mid-19th to Early 21st Centuries

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2020
Goals. The article studies the socio-age group of dulguyak-qadai (Tuv. ‘old maid’), specific features of their status in traditional and contemporary Tuvan society.
Zoya Yu. Dorzhu, Lyudmila A. Dash
doaj   +1 more source

White Color in Traditional Worldviews of Tuvans and Buryats: Semantics and Associative Thesaurus Approached

open access: yesМонголоведение, 2022
Introduction. The article examines results of associative experiments with native speakers of Tuvan and Buryat to analyze the color term ‘white’. Goals.
Galina A. Dyrkheeva   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Linguistic Evidence Suggests that Xiōng‐nú and Huns Spoke the Same Paleo‐Siberian Language

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 124, Issue 1, Page 29-52, March 2026.
Abstract The Xiōng‐nú were a tribal confederation who dominated Inner Asia from the third century BC to the second century AD. Xiōng‐nú descendants later constituted the ethnic core of the European Huns. It has been argued that the Xiōng‐nú spoke an Iranian, Turkic, Mongolic or Yeniseian language, but the linguistic affiliation of the Xiōng‐nú and the ...
Svenja Bonmann, Simon Fries
wiley   +1 more source

Ordinary Semantics of Bionym Orel and Ezir [Eagle] in Russian and Tuvan Language (Results of a Linguistic Experiment)

open access: yesНаучный диалог, 2023
The results of a comparative analysis of the everyday semantics of the bionym Orel and Ezir [Eagle] in the Russian and Tuvan languages are presented.
T. G. Rabenko, Ts. S.-B. Nurzet
doaj   +1 more source

Zapotec Language Activism And Talking Dictionaries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Online dictionaries have become a key tool for some indigenous communities to promote and preserve their languages, often in collaboration with linguists.
Fahringer, J.   +3 more
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Objects as Knowledgeable Elders: Lessons From the Reindeer Calf Halter Mȯnggu̇i

open access: yesMuseum Anthropology, Volume 49, Issue 1, Spring 2026.
ABSTRACT This article presents ongoing research that reconnects a historical ethnographic collection housed in a European museum with the descendants of its source communities in the transnational Inner Asian region, specifically among the Tozhu and Tukha reindeer herders of the Tyva Republic and Mongolia.
Victoria Soyan Peemot
wiley   +1 more source

Key traditions of Tuvan ethnos as an immaterial cultural heritage [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
The article is affecting a problem of saving traditions of Tuvan ethnos. It is offered to consider the nomadic culture as an intangible culture heritage. There are analyzed regulations which relate to the questions of saving culture heritage, concretized
Drachev, A. V., Драчев, А. В.
core  

Total Energy Expenditure and Physical Activity Profiles Among Reindeer Herders and Office Workers of Northern Finland

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Human Biology, Volume 37, Issue 12, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Objectives In the Arctic, climate change increases extreme weather events and unpredictability, affects food chains, increases transportational needs, and decreases physical activity (PA) and estimated total energy expenditure (eTEE). Thus, understanding how climate change affects inhabitants of different environments is increasingly important.
Ville Stenbäck   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Scythian Stag in Contemporary Arts and Craft: Tuva and Abroad

open access: yesНовые исследования Тувы, 2021
The article examines the interest in Scythian imagery and motifs in contemporary arts and crafts, both in Tuva and outside Russia, on a surge after the excavation of Arzhan II burial site.
Кэтрин З. Лунг
doaj   +1 more source

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