A statistical technique that sorts out when changes to words’ pronunciations most likely occurred in the evolution of a language offers a renewed opportunity to trace words and languages back to their ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Central Asiatic Journal has been published since 1955, focusing on the linguistic, cultural and historical heritage of Central ...

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 is ...

In the remote mountain village of Kuşköy, nestled in northern Turkey, communication sounds more like birdsong than speech. Generations of farmers have used a whistled form of Turkish known as Kuș Dili ...