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Dukhan, a Turkic variety of Northern Mongolia : description and analysis /

This volume offers the first grammatical description of Dukhan, a highly endangered non-written Turkic language spoken in northern Mongolia by approximately 500 people. Most of the Dukhans are engaged in reindeer breeding and follow a nomadic lifestyle in the forested taiga areas of the Tsagaan Nuur...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ragagnin, Elisabetta, 1972- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Wiesbaden, Germany : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2011.
Colección:Turcologica ; Bd. 76.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:This volume offers the first grammatical description of Dukhan, a highly endangered non-written Turkic language spoken in northern Mongolia by approximately 500 people. Most of the Dukhans are engaged in reindeer breeding and follow a nomadic lifestyle in the forested taiga areas of the Tsagaan Nuur county in the Khövsgöl province of Mongolia. The present description is exclusively based on the material collected by the author during intensive fieldwork sojourns. After a presentation of the Dukhan people with respect tolifestyle, material culture and ethnohistorical background and some introdu.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (305 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9783447190671
3447190671
ISSN:0177-4743 ;
0177-4743