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Hunnic. The Hunnic language, or Hunnish, was the language spoken by Huns in the Hunnic Empire, a heterogeneous, multi-ethnic tribal confederation which invaded Eastern and Central Europe, and ruled most of Pannonian Eastern Europe, during the 4th and 5th centuries CE. A variety of languages were spoken within the Hun Empire. [1]
The Ainu languages ( / ˈaɪnuː / EYE-noo ), [1] sometimes known as Ainuic, are a small language family, often regarded as a language isolate, historically spoken by the Ainu people of northern Japan and neighboring islands. The primary varieties of Ainu are alternately considered a group of closely related languages [2] or divergent dialects ...
International Christian University. Yale University. University of Washington. Roy Andrew Miller (September 5, 1924 – August 22, 2014) [1] [2] was an American linguist best known as the author of several books on Japanese language and linguistics, and for his advocacy of Korean and Japanese as members of the proposed Altaic language family .
Línguas altaicas. As línguas altaicas são um conjunto de idiomas falados entre a Turquia e a Ásia Oriental, passando pela Mongólia e a Sibéria . Atualmente, a maioria dos linguistas rejeitam a existência de um ancestral comum a todos os idiomas altaicos, [ 1][ 2] de modo que as similaridades entre eles podem ter decorrido de um contato ...
Ngữ hệ Nhật Bản. (đôi khi được gộp vào) Tiếng Ainu. (hiếm khi được gộp vào) Ngữ hệ Altai ( Altaic /ælˈteɪ.ɪk/, được đặt theo tên của dãy núi Altai ở trung tâm châu Á; có khi còn được gọi là Transeurasian, tức là hệ Liên Á-Âu) là một Sprachbund (tức một vùng địa lý ...
Summary. “Altaic” is a common term applied by linguists to a number of language families, spread across Central Asia and the Far East and sharing a large, most likely non-coincidental, number of structural and morphemic similarities. At the onset of Altaic studies, these similarities were ascribed to the one-time existence of an ancestral ...
Distribution of language families and isolates north of Mexico at first contact. The major South American language families. Ethnolinguistic groups of mainland Southeast Asia. Caucasian languages. Distribution of the Uralic, Altaic, and Yukaghir languages. Family name. Languages. Current speakers [1]
