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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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Overcoming Subaltern Silences: The Forgotten Buryat Soldiers of the Korean War

open access: yesThe Russian Review, Volume 84, Issue 3, Page 422-442, July 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Biblical Legends in the Folklore of the Turkic Peoples in Southern Siberia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
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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Reconsidering ‘Classical’ versus ‘Recombinant’ Teleologies: a Case Study of Philip Glass's Piano Etude No. 6

open access: yesMusic Analysis, Volume 44, Issue 1, Page 73-99, March 2025.
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
wiley   +1 more source

Tuvan and Yakut Languages: Search for Phonetic and Grammatical Correspondences

open access: yesVestnik NSU. Series: History and Philology, 2020
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
openaire   +1 more source

The Nomenclature of Medicinal Plants of Tuva in Dictionaries

open access: yesНовые исследования Тувы, 2018
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
doaj   +1 more source

The Tuvan Text in the Aspect of Transculturation

open access: yesPolylinguality and Transcultural Practices, 2023
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
doaj   +1 more source

A Visual Semiotic Analysis of Schoolbooks in the Tuvan Language

open access: yesSibirica, 2023
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.
openaire   +1 more source

Who gives innate gifts? Cognitive and cultural approaches to Turkic South Siberian shamanism [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
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]

open access: yes, 2015
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
core   +1 more source

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