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An Old Chinese word for ‘silk’ in Mongolic, Turkic, Tungusic, and Persian.
No full textThis paper identifies a Late Old Chinese word for silk in Mongolic and its comparanda in Old Uygur, Chagatay, New Persian, Jurchen, Manchu, Ewenki, and Solon. Routes of lexical borrowing are identified, and their likely historical contexts are discussed. This paper offers contributions to the study of early Chinese ethnolinguistic contact with neighboring people
A new decipherment and linguistic reconstruction of the Kitan-Chinese bilingual inscription of 1134 A.D.
No full textThis paper presents a new decipherment of the Langjun Inscription of 1134 A.D., including a significantly revised phonological reconstruction of the text, new readings of several graphemes, paleographical notes on certain Kitan and Chinese graphemes encountered in the text, and a glossary of words contained in the text including identifiable etyma. In terms of methodology, the Kitan and corresponding Chinese texts of this bilingual inscription are juxtaposed to facilitate decipherment and reconstruction. Although several important philological studies of this text exist, this article presents the first linguistic reconstruction of the inscription
Khentii-Dornod Khamnigan Ewenki: Toward a revised analysis of Rinchen’s notes on a Tungusic language of Mongolia
No full textThis paper discusses my efforts in analyzing the important linguistic data on Khentii-Dornod Khamnigan Ewenki, a probably now extinct Tungusic language of Mongolia documented by the Mongolian scholar Academician B. Rinchen in the 1960s and published in his book, Mongol Ard Ulsîn Xamnigan Ayalguu [The Tungusic Dialects of the Mongolian People’s Republic]. Rinchen’s book is essentially the only source of linguistic data on Khamnigan Ewenki as once spoken in the provinces of Khentii and Dornod in northeastern Mongolia; however, the data in Rinchen’s book is largely unanalyzed and much progress has been made in the field of language description since the publication of Rinchen’s book.
In this paper, I present some findings of my work toward a revised analysis of Rinchen’s notes, including an interpretation of the phonological inventory, morphological analyses, notes on the lexicon, and my efforts toward a sketch grammar of Khentii-Dornod Khamnigan Ewenki based on Rinchen’s data. My reanalyses of Rinchen’s data currently consist of an interpretation of the phonological values intended by Rinchen’s practical Cyrillic transcriptions of Khamnigan Ewenki data, reanalyses of morphemes and lexical items transcribed by Rinchen but not fully analyzed, a revised analysis of several short Khamnigan Ewenki texts documented by Rinchen, sentential data, and notes on the lexicon
Early Serbi-Mongolic‑Tungusic lexical contact: Jurchen numerals from the 室韋 Shirwi (Shih-wei) in North China
No full textThis paper proposes that the attested Jurchen numerals for 11-19 are probably reflexes of Archaic Jurchen numerals borrowed from the Serbi (Xianbei)-Mongolic language of the Shirwi (Shih-wei)
The pragmatics of the Khalkha Mongolian modal particle šüü and its descriptions in textbooks for English speakers
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Mongolic elements in the Hazaragi language of Afghanistan and their value for reconstructing Western Middle Mongol
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