EAN: 9783447108553

LANGUAGES OF ANCIENT SOUTHERN MONGOLIA AND NORT...

This is the first book on the Serbi-Mongolic language family - a major language family of Asia
- and the first modern linguistic study of the Serbi (Xianbei ) peoples  whose conquest of
North China took place at approximately the same time as the Germanic and Hunnic
Völkerwanderung into the former Western Roman Empire. The findings presented in this book - the
first rigorous and systematic unified theory on the origins of the Mongolic and Serbi languages
- add substantially to our understanding of the linguistic geography of Eastern Eurasia  and to
the ethnolinguistic history of the Mongolic peoples and their neighbors  including speakers of
Chinese  Japanese-Koguryoic  Tibeto-Burman  Tungusic  possibly Indo-European  and later 
Turkic. This book also enhances our understanding of attested Middle Chinese  Early Old
Mandarin  and Old Tibetan phonology. Moreover  it is the first study to present linguistic
sketches of Taghbach (Tuoba )  Tuyuhun ('Azha )  and Kitan (Qidan )  and to systematically
compare Kitan and Mongol morphological and syntactic paradigms  resulting in the first
reconstruction of Common Serbi-Mongolic phonology  morphology  lexicon  and syntax. Readers
interested in Mongolia  the Mongols  North China  Central Eurasia  the Tibetan Empire 
languages of Asia  historical linguistics  and history will find this book to be a useful
resource.

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