{"title":"The Influence of Mongolian Nomadic Cattle Breeding on Language Use","authors":"Alena Oberfalzerová","doi":"10.1163/25898833-00420031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25898833-00420031","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The Mongolian nomads’ way of life and perception of the outside world is directly reflected in their thinking and use of language. In the following article, I apply an ethnolinguistic approach to the study of the Mongolian language. I find the theoretical basis in the ethnography of communication (Dell Hymes 1962), which allows for the communication behaviour of nomads to be revealed. The given examples of idioms, phrases, sayings, and proverbs relate to cattle breeding, the essence of nomadic life, and reveal the linguistic means of their metaphorical expression. The article builds on my previous ethnolinguistic research on the colloquial language and is based on material collected during long-term field research, which was subsequently consulted in detail with native speakers.","PeriodicalId":369318,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126845873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Status of Kazakh Language in Mongolia","authors":"R. Auyeskhan","doi":"10.1163/25898833-00420026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25898833-00420026","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Kazakh people settled in the territories of present-day western Mongolia about three centuries ago. Over time their language has diverged from that spoken in Kazakhstan. In the more recent period, external migration to Kazakhstan has caused a significant reduction in the number of Kazakhs residing in Mongolia, while domestic migration resulted in about 25% of the remaining population scattering unevenly across the country. Both of these phenomena affected and still affect the number of speakers, the language function, the intergenerational transmission and thus, language preservation. This article presents the results of research on the endangerment level of the Kazakh language in Mongolia, investigating its causes and trends in the country’s many speakers’ communities.","PeriodicalId":369318,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129445416","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An Amuro-Mongolic Etymon and Its Diachronic Implications","authors":"J. Janhunen","doi":"10.1163/25898833-00420029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25898833-00420029","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The paper discusses the etymological connection between Amuric *alr ‘berry’ and Mongolic *alïr-su/n ‘lingonberry’. The two items represent the common root *alïr and must reflect a trace of language contact. However, unlike several other lexical items shared by Amuric and Mongolic, this word is not attested in Tungusic, except as a very late and localized secondary borrowing from Mongolic. This means that the connection may be due to a relatively old direct contact between Pre-Proto-Amuric and Pre-Proto-Mongolic. This, in turn, has implications to the question concerning the prehistorical locations of the Amuric, Mongolic, and Tungusic language families in southern and central Manchuria.","PeriodicalId":369318,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics","volume":"319 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122703403","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Etymology of “Manchu”: A Critical Evaluation of the Riverside Hypothesis","authors":"Andreas Hölzl","doi":"10.1163/25898833-00420028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25898833-00420028","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000Manchu is the name of a people that has an important place in world history. While the list of etymologies of the name already encompasses several dozen proposals, none is widely accepted. The most promising etymology from a linguistic perspective can be characterized as the “riverside hypothesis”. It states that the name is that of the lower Amur that was later used for peoples living along that river. This paper takes a fresh look at this hypothesis, discussing previous approaches, rejecting earlier arguments against it, and evaluating the plausibility of the hypothesis by establishing a detailed semantic model and a list of sound laws. It concludes that, despite minor phonological issues, the hypothesis is very likely the correct one.","PeriodicalId":369318,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123126973","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On a Sound Change in Proto-Turkic","authors":"Orçun Ünal","doi":"10.1163/25898833-00420033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25898833-00420033","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000The present paper argues for two radical consonantal changes in Late Proto-Turkic, which can be formulated as *t₁ > g /V_iVr₁/₂ and *d₁ > g /V_iVr₁. Using this new sound law, some lexemes that have the phonemic shape /°VgVr/ or /°VgVz/ in Common Turkic are etymologised as being derived from verbs ending in °t- or °d-. The reconstructed Turkic forms are also partly supported by Mongolic data.","PeriodicalId":369318,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114320665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Preserving the Languages of Russia: Work in Progress","authors":"Ekaterina Gruzdeva","doi":"10.1163/25898833-00410020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25898833-00410020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":369318,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130064343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Cry of a Parrot? Answer to Torquil Duthie","authors":"A. Vovin","doi":"10.1163/25898833-00410025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25898833-00410025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":369318,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130204051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A New Version of the Corpus of Square Script Mongolian","authors":"J. Janhunen","doi":"10.1163/25898833-00410022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25898833-00410022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":369318,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics","volume":"78 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132228420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pre-Proto-Yukaghir Consonant Clusters","authors":"M. Zhivlov","doi":"10.1163/25898833-00410018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/25898833-00410018","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000This paper analyses a number of morphophonological alternations in the Yukaghir languages with the aim of the internal reconstruction of pre-Proto-Yukaghir. The main focus is on the simplification of complex consonant clusters arising on morphological boundaries between consonant-final root allomorphs and derivational suffixes. The paper also contains a new reconstruction of Proto-Yukaghir and pre-Proto-\u0000Yukaghir consonantism.","PeriodicalId":369318,"journal":{"name":"International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133588693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}