Tungusology

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From Tungus +‎ -ology.

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Tungusology (uncountable)

  1. The study of the Tungusic languages.
    • 1963, Thomas Albert Sebeok, Current Trends in Linguistics: Soviet and East European linguistics:
      Ligeti himself has mainly studied questions of Mongolology and Tungusology (including Manchu).
    • 1985, Language research, volume 21, page 135:
      On the other hand, at Ramstedt's time vast Siberian linguistic territories were still white spots on the map; thus linguistic geography, especially in Tungusology, was hardly possible until quite recently.
    • 1997, Hiroshi Shōji, Juha Janhunen, Northern minority languages: problems of survival, page 111:
      The Evenki volume of Castren's materials [Castren 1856] is generally considered to form the foundation of modern Tungusology.

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