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Zapotec Language Activism And Talking Dictionaries [PDF]
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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Overcoming Subaltern Silences: The Forgotten Buryat Soldiers of the Korean War
Abstract This article reassesses Soviet warfare practices by examining the use of non‐Slavic soldiers from Siberian ethnic minorities during the Korean War (1950–53). These soldiers, including Koreans, Buryats, Sakha Yakuts, and Tuvans, were deployed by the Soviet military in an elaborate deception scheme aimed at reinforcing Chinese units fighting on ...
Sayana Namsaraeva, Vitaly Tsytsykov
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Biblical Legends in the Folklore of the Turkic Peoples in Southern Siberia [PDF]
The article deals with the ethnic specificity of biblical legends about the flood and the Tower of Babel in the folklore of the Turkic peoples of Southern Siberia (the Altai, Tuva, Khakassia and Shor).
Oinotkinova, Nadezhda
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ABSTRACT In contrast to the teleological nature of Western art music, minimalism has long been purported to be ‘anti‐teleological’ (Meyer 1963) – that is, the latter lacks the goal‐directedness that Wim Mertens (1983) views as a defining feature of the former.
Hunter Hoyle
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Tuvan and Yakut Languages: Search for Phonetic and Grammatical Correspondences
In various classifications, the relations between Siberian Turkic languages are defined in different ways: according to some researchers, these relations are a result of convergence of Turkic groups of varying genesis on Sayan-Altai. Other view the development of Siberian Turkic languages as a ‘tree’; this concept is found in comparative Turkic ...
Natalia N. Shirobokova +1 more
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The Nomenclature of Medicinal Plants of Tuva in Dictionaries
The article introduces a list of sources which inform the reader of the plants used for medicinal purposes by Tuvan people. A brief analysis of these sources has revealed a necessity to distinguish between medicinal plants of Tuva and those used in ...
Mira V. Bavuu-Surun +2 more
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The Tuvan Text in the Aspect of Transculturation
The article analyzes the modern processes of artistic aestheticization and transculturation of the Tuvan text in the works of two modern authors: Maadyr-ool Khovalyg, who writes about Tuva in Tuvan, and Roman Senchin, who represents Tuva as genius loci ...
Eleonora F. Shafranskaya +1 more
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A Visual Semiotic Analysis of Schoolbooks in the Tuvan Language
Abstract The Tuvan language is a South Siberian Turkic language spoken by the Tuvan people who live in the Republic of Tyva, an autonomous republic in the South Siberian region of Russia. The Republic of Tyva is a bilingual region where both Russian and Tuvan are spoken.
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Who gives innate gifts? Cognitive and cultural approaches to Turkic South Siberian shamanism [PDF]
In Siberia a lot of a facts confirm an essentialist interpretation of shamanism: frequent distinction between genuine and false shamans, physical particularities, like illness, attributed to shamans, absence of initiation, and hereditary mode of ...
Stépanoff, Charles
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An early North-Western Karaim Bible translation from 1720 : part 2 : the Book of Ruth [PDF]
The present article is a continuation of a description of manuscript III-73, which contains the earliest known Western Karaim Torah translation (from 1720) along with the North-Western Karaim translation of four books of Ketuvim – more precisely, the ...
Németh, Michał
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