Tungusic languages

E62256

Altaic language grouping candidate language family

Tungusic languages are a family of languages spoken in eastern Siberia, northeastern China, and parts of the Russian Far East, including languages such as Evenki and Manchu.

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Observed surface forms (3)

Surface form	Occurrences
Central Tungusic languages	1
Proto-Tungusic (according to some hypotheses)	1
Southern Tungusic languages	1

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Altaic language grouping candidate ⓘ language family ⓘ
debatedClassification	Altaic languages (proposed) ⓘ surface form: Altaic hypothesis
geographicDistribution	Amur River ⓘ surface form: Amur River basin Heilongjiang ⓘ surface form: Heilongjiang Province Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region ⓘ surface form: Inner Mongolia Jilin Province ⓘ Khabarovsk Krai ⓘ Primorsky Krai ⓘ Sakha Republic ⓘ
hasMemberLanguage	Even language ⓘ Evenki language ⓘ Hezhen language ⓘ Manchu ⓘ surface form: Jurchen language Kili language ⓘ Manchu ⓘ surface form: Manchu language Nanai language ⓘ Negidal language ⓘ Oroch language ⓘ Orok language ⓘ Sibe language ⓘ Solon language ⓘ Udege language ⓘ Ulch language ⓘ
hasSubfamily	Tungusic languages self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Central Tungusic languages Northern Tungusic languages ⓘ Tungusic languages self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Southern Tungusic languages
historicalAssociation	Jin dynasty ⓘ surface form: Jurchen Jin dynasty Qing dynasty ⓘ
languageFamilyStatus	endangered ⓘ
primaryCountries	China ⓘ Russia ⓘ
relatedTo	Mongolic languages ⓘ Turkic languages ⓘ
spokenIn	Mongolia ⓘ Far Eastern Federal District ⓘ surface form: Russian Far East Eastern Siberia ⓘ surface form: eastern Siberia northeastern China ⓘ
subclassOf	indigenous languages of Siberia ⓘ indigenous languages of the Russian Far East ⓘ languages of Asia ⓘ languages of China ⓘ
typologicalFeature	agglutinative morphology ⓘ rich case system ⓘ subject–object–verb word order ⓘ vowel harmony ⓘ
writingSystemUsed	Cyrillic script ⓘ Latin script ⓘ Classical Mongolian script ⓘ surface form: Manchu script Classical Mongolian script ⓘ surface form: Mongolian script

Referenced by (7)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Altaic languages (proposed) → coreMembers → Tungusic languages ⓘ

Tungusic languages → hasSubfamily → Tungusic languages self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Southern Tungusic languages

Tungusic languages → hasSubfamily → Tungusic languages self-linksurface differs ⓘ

this entity surface form: Central Tungusic languages

Altaic languages (proposed) → hasSubgroup → Tungusic languages ⓘ

Transeurasian languages → includes → Tungusic languages ⓘ

Proto-Turkic → possibleContactWith → Tungusic languages ⓘ

this entity surface form: Proto-Tungusic (according to some hypotheses)

Matthias Castrén → studied → Tungusic languages ⓘ