The Altaic hypothesis was once one of the most fascinating linguistic theories, proposing that several language families ...

The Transeurasian language family the researchers focused on has connections to modern-day Japanese, Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic. Today the markets of Istanbul may look quite different ...

and the Manchu (a Tungusic people), who ruled China during the Qing Dynasty (1644–1912). Transeurasian language speakers clearly travelled far and wide in ancient times, so we might ask what ...

The origin and early dispersal of Transeurasian languages, including, among others, Japanese, Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic, is among the most disputed issues of Asian prehistory.

A vast Transeurasian language family that contains the Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Turkish and Tungusic languages has had its origins traced back 9000 years, to early farming communities in what ...

Dr. Veronika Zikmundová researches Mongolic and Tungusic languages at the Institute for Asian Studies, Charles University, where she is currently the deputy head of the institute. On Thursday 24 ...