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Tungusology en · NOUN

Etymology

From Tungus + -ology.

Meanings

1. (uncountable) The study of the Tungusic languages.
   • Ligeti himself has mainly studied questions of Mongolology and Tungusology (including Manchu). 1963, Thomas Albert Sebeok, Current Trends in Linguistics: Soviet and East European linguistics:
   • The Evenki volume of Castren's materials [Castren 1856] is generally considered to form the foundation of modern Tungusology. 1997, Hiroshi Shōji, Juha Janhunen, Northern minority languages: problems of survival, page 111:
   • 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. 1985, Language research, volume 21, page 135:

Deriveds

Tungusologist

Hyponyms

Manjuristics

Relateds

Tungusological

Translations (2)

ru тунгусове́дение (the study of the Tungusic languages) · ru тунгу́со-маньчжурове́дение (the study of the Tungusic languages)