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Introduction

Martine Robbeets A. Savelyev

Abstrak

The Transeurasian languages are among the most fervently debated language families in modern linguistics, their data contributing extensively to our current understanding of how genealogical and areal linguistics can complement each other as twin faces of diachronic linguistics. The term “Transeurasian” refers to a large group of geographically adjacent languages, stretching from the Pacific in the East to the Baltic, the Black Sea, and the Mediterranean in the West, that includes up to five uncontroversial linguistic families: Japonic, Koreanic, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic. It is distinguished from the more traditional term “Altaic,” which we here reserve for the linguistic grouping consisting of Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic languages only. Figure 1 displays the distribution of the Transeurasian languages....

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Martine Robbeets

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A. Savelyev

Format Sitasi

Robbeets, M., Savelyev, A. (2020). Introduction. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198804628.003.0001

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Informasi Jurnal
Tahun Terbit
2020
Bahasa
en
Sumber Database
Semantic Scholar
DOI
10.1093/oso/9780198804628.003.0001
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Open Access ✓