tungusic

Speech parts

1. tungusic - Adjective

2. Tungusic - Proper noun

Meaning

Of or pertaining to the Tunguses; as, the Tungusic dialects.

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Georg et al. 1999: 81 Another view accepts Altaic as a valid family but includes in it only Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic. Source: Internet

However, Starostin (2005) citation mentions evidence from several Tungusic languages cited by Starostin et al. Source: Internet

In sum, the idea was that Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic languages form a Sprachbund —the result of convergence through intensive borrowing and long contact among speakers of languages that are not necessarily closely related. Source: Internet

It tries hard to distinguish loans between Turkic and Mongolic and between Mongolic and Tungusic from cognates; and it suggests words that occur in Turkic and Tungusic but not in Mongolic. Source: Internet

Poppe 1976: 470 Since then, the standard set of languages included in Macro-Altaic has been Turkic, Mongolic, Tungusic, Korean, and Japanese. Source: Internet

The historical narrative of what is now Eastern Inner Mongolia mostly consists of alternations between different Tungusic and Mongol tribes, rather than the struggle between nomads and Chinese agriculturalists. Source: Internet

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