Tungusic is a small family of languages, many of which are endangered. It 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...
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ftdoab:oai:directory.doabooks.org:20.500.12854/95993 2023-05-15T16:59:08+02:00 2023-01-11T04:02:12Z image/jpeg https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/60565 https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12657/60565 https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/60565/1/external_content.pdf eng eng Language Science Press https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/60565 https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/60565/1/external_content.pdf 2023 ftdoab https://doi.org/20.500.12657/60565 2023-02-05T01:25:00Z Tungusic is a small family of languages, many of which are endangered. It 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. They extend as far north as the Taimyr Peninsula and, for a brief period, could even be found in parts of Central and Southern China. This book is an attempt to bring researchers from different backgrounds together to provide an open-access publication in English that is freely available to all scholars in the field. The contributions cover all branches of Tungusic and a wide range of linguistic features. Topics include synchronic descriptions, typological comparisons, dialectology, language contact, and diachronic reconstruction. Some of the contributions are based on first-hand data collected during fieldwork, in some cases from the last speakers of a given language. Other/Unknown Material Kamchatka Kamchatka Peninsula Sakhalin Taimyr yenisey river Siberia Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) Kamchatka Peninsula ENVELOPE(160.000,160.000,56.000,56.000) Yenisey ENVELOPE(82.680,82.680,71.828,71.828) |
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Tungusic is a small family of languages, many of which are endangered. It 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. They extend as far north as the Taimyr Peninsula and, for a brief period, could even be found in parts of Central and Southern China. This book is an attempt to bring researchers from different backgrounds together to provide an open-access publication in English that is freely available to all scholars in the field. The contributions cover all branches of Tungusic and a wide range of linguistic features. Topics include synchronic descriptions, typological comparisons, dialectology, language contact, and diachronic reconstruction. Some of the contributions are based on first-hand data collected during fieldwork, in some cases from the last speakers of a given language. |
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