1. tungusic - Adjective
2. Tungusic - Proper noun
Of or pertaining to the Tunguses; as, the Tungusic dialects.
Source: Webster's dictionaryGeorg 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