The Manchu Tungusic Languages

Download or read book The Manchu-Tungusic Languages written by A. Vovin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Manchu-Tungusic languages constitute a linguistically well-defined but geographically widely-dispersed family of about a dozen separate languages distributed in Siberia, Central and East Asia. Although a considerable amount of descriptive, historical and field work has been carried out on these languages in Russia and China, little is known about them in the west, since almost all available publications are either in Russian or in Chinese. An up-to-date survey of this language family aimed at the western reader is therefore long overdue.