The Introduction to Altaic Linguistics, with Uygur linguist Litip Tohti as chief editor, is a laudable effort to push forward the long study of Altaic linguistics, or Altaistics. Released by the ...

JENA, GERMANY—According to a Science Magazine report, the ancestor of some 80 Transeurasian or Altaic languages, including languages spoken in Siberia, Mongolia, Central Asia, and possibly Japan and ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Central Asiatic Journal has been published since 1955, focusing on the linguistic, cultural and historical heritage of Central ...

Gnothi Seauton ― In Greek, these words mean “know thyself.” Such was the inscription at the ancient Temple of Apollo, where people would visit the sacred Oracle. Moving on to present-day Korea, the ...

A team of researchers is using a novel technique to comb through the data and to reconstruct major branches in the linguistic tree. The diversity of human languages can be likened to branches on a ...

The regular serial publication of the Society, issued quarterly, is the Journal of the American Oriental Society. The first volume, published in 1843-49, set the tone for all time in the broad scope ...

John Gombojab Hangin, a university professor in the U.S. and an expert on Mongolian language and culture, has died in Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia, where he was doing research. Mr. Hangin, who ...

The diversity of human languages can be likened to branches on a tree. If you’re reading this in English, you’re on a branch that traces back to a common ancestor with Scots, which traces back to a ...