Yeniseian


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Noun1.Yeniseian - a member of one of the groups living in the Yenisei river valley in western Siberia
Siberia - a vast Asian region of Russia; famous for long cold winters
Russian - a native or inhabitant of Russia
2.Yeniseian - the Uralic language spoken by the Yeniseian
Enets, Entsi, Entsy, Yenisei-Samoyed, Yenisei
Samoyedic, Samoyed - the Uralic languages spoken by the Samoyed in northwestern Siberia
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Language Contact in Siberia: Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic Loanwords in Yeniseian
Language Contact in Siberia: Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic Loanwords in Yeniseian
However, for distant areas such as the Yeniseian North, which was incorporated into the Czarist Empire as late as the 17th century, adequate historical data is scarce.
Three Nganasan-Evenki/Dolgan morphosyntactic parallels and their implications
A proposed language family known as the Dene-Yeniseian suggests that there are common language elements between the North American Na-Dene languages and the Yeniseian languages of Central Siberia.
Language 'evolution' may help shed light on human migration out of Beringia
Linguists have long held that both the Yeniseian languages in Siberia and the, Na-Dene languages in North America have no known relatives among other languages in the world.
Tongue ties across continents draw fire
The third layer loaded since the Bronze Age could be of Yeniseian, it could result in a Sino-Yeniseian corpus of common etymological units.
Chinese Language and Languages of Northern Europe: Discoveries and Researches of Common Origins of Chinese, Uralic and Indo-European Languages
As the description of Yeniseian has improved much in recent years it should be worthwhile to reexamine whether the donor language was really Ket or whether another Yeniseian language could be considered.
A note on personal pronouns in Enets and Northern Samoyedic/[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]
This includes the conventional Uralic and Altaic groups, the Paleo-Siberian languages that Uwe Seefloth (2000) has connected to Uralic (Yukaghir, Chukotka-Kamchatkan and Eskimo-Aleut), and Yeniseian. (4)
Distances among Uralic and other Northern Eurasian languages/[TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII]

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