Tungusology
English
Etymology
From Tungus + -ology.
Noun
Tungusology (uncountable)
- 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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Derived terms
- Tungusologist
Related terms
- Tungusological
Translations
the study of the Tungusic languages
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