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Tungusic language

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Noun1.Tungusic language - a family of Altaic languages spoken in Mongolia and neighboring areasTungusic language - a family of Altaic languages spoken in Mongolia and neighboring areas
Altaic language, Altaic - a group of related languages spoken in Asia and southeastern Europe
Tunguz, Evenki, Ewenki, Tungus - the Tungusic language of the Evenki in eastern Siberia
Manchu - the Tungusic language spoken by the Manchu


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The 3P possessive suffix occurs in the non-personal definitive function also in Turkic and Tungusic languages (Tauli 1966 : 148; Pusztay 1975 : 364).
In Northern-Eurasian languages an equivalent to the Uralic (*)m-accusative can possibly be found in Tungusic languages, in which also the category of grammatical gender is lacking; see [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] 1971 : 10; 1976 : 49-50; Greenberg 2000 :129-131; Marcantonio 2002 : 284; Klesment, Kunnap, Soosaar, Taagepera 2003 : 375.
However, according to UEW, this term (< P-U *kunce ~ *kuce) has parallels in all the Tungusic languages, compare, for example, Orok .
 
 
 
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