Spoken Sibe: Morphology of the Inflected Parts of Speech - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Spoken Sibe: Morphology of the Inflected Parts of Speech write by Veronika Zikmundová . This book was released on 2013-03-01. Spoken Sibe: Morphology of the Inflected Parts of Speech available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At present, the Sibe language is the only oral variety of Manchu which is actually in use. With some 20,000 to 30,000 speakers it is also the most widely spoken Tungusic language. The Sibe people, who live at the North-Western border of the present-day Sinkiang Uyghur Autonomous province of China, are descendants of the garrison men of the Manchu army from 18th century. They were sent there after the area was annexed by the Manchus with the task to guard the newly established border between the Manchu Empire and Russia. Being soldiers of an alien army they remained isolated from the indigenous Turkic and Mongolian peoples, which resulted in an allmost miraculous preservation of the language. In the 1990s, when the oral varieties of Manchu in historical Manchuria became either extinct or at the verge of extinction, Sibe kept surviving as a language spoken by all generations of Sibe people in the Chapchal Sibe autonomous county, and by the middle and older generations in virtually all other Sibe settlements of Xinjiang. By now, although the percentage of Sibe-Chinese bilingualism is high, the number of speakers, including young people, is still significantly great. The present description of the grammatical functioning of the two main inflected word classes – nouns and verbs – is documented by examples and sample texts, and provided with the basic general information about the Sibe language and its speakers. The intention of this work is to offer the reader a more complex image of the Sibe language as it is used at present on its historical and cultural territory.
Endangered Languages of Northeast Asia
Endangered Languages of Northeast Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Endangered Languages of Northeast Asia write by . This book was released on 2022-12-28. Endangered Languages of Northeast Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An exciting and up-to date book on endangered languages of Northeast Asia both from the emic and etic perspective.
Language Contact in Siberia
Language Contact in Siberia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language Contact in Siberia write by Bayarma Khabtagaeva. This book was released on 2019-04-09. Language Contact in Siberia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This monograph dicsusses phonetic, morphological and semantic features of the ‘Altaic’ Sprachbund (i.e. Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic) elements in Yeniseian languages (Kott, Assan, Arin, Pumpokol, Yugh and Ket), a rather heterogeneous language family traditionally classified as one of the ‘Paleo-Siberian’ language groups, that are not related to each other or to any other languages on the face of the planet. The present work is based on a database of approximately 230 Turkic and 70 Tungusic loanwords. A smaller number of loanwords are of Mongolic origin, which came through either the Siberian Turkic languages or the Tungusic Ewenki languages. There are clear linguistic criteria, which help to distinguish loanwords borrowed via Turkic or Tungusic and not directly from Mongolic languages. One of the main outcomes of this research is the establishment of the Yeniseian peculiar features in the Altaic loanwords. The phonetic criteria comprise the regular disappearance of vowel harmony, syncope, amalgamation, aphaeresis and metathesis. Besides, a separate group of lexemes represents hybrid words, i.e. the lexical elements where one element is Altaic and the other one is Yeniseian. This book presents a historical-etymological survey of a part of the Yeniseian lexicon, which provides an important part of the comparative database of Proto-Yeniseian reconstructions.
Language change for the worse
Language change for the worse - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language change for the worse write by Dankmar W. Enke. This book was released on 2024-09-05. Language change for the worse available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Many theories hold that language change, at least on a local level, is driven by a need for improvement. The present volume explores to what extent this assumption holds true, and whether there is a particular type of language change that we dub language change for the worse, i.e., change with a worsening effect that cannot be explained away as a side-effect of improvement in some other area of the linguistic system. The chapters of the volume, written by leading junior and senior scholars, combine expertise in diachronic and historical linguistics, typology, and formal modelling. They focus on different aspects of grammar (phonology, morphosyntax, semantics) in a variety of language families (Germanic, Romance, Austronesian, Bantu, Jê-Kaingang, Wu Chinese, Greek, Albanian, Altaic, Indo-Aryan, and languages of the Caucasus). The volume contributes to ongoing theoretical debates and discussions between linguists with different theoretical orientations.
On Diversity and Complexity of Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia
On Diversity and Complexity of Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook On Diversity and Complexity of Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia write by Pirkko Suihkonen. This book was released on 2014-12-15. On Diversity and Complexity of Languages Spoken in Europe and North and Central Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The languages of Europe and North and Central Asia provide a rich variety of data. In this volume, some articles are summaries of large areal typological research projects, and some articles focus on structures or constructions in a single language. However, it is common to all the articles that they investigate phenomena that have not been examined previously, or they apply a new framework to a topic. The volume will be of interest to scholars with a focus on this broad geographic region, typologists, historical linguists and discourse analysts. The uniqueness of this volume is that it brings together work on a genetically diverse set of languages that have some shared areal traits.
