Tungusic

American  

[toong-goo-zik] / tʊŋˈgu zɪk /

noun

1. a family of languages spoken or formerly spoken in Manchuria and central and SE Siberia, including Manchu, Evenki, Even, and languages of the Amur River region, as Nanay.

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adjective

1. of or relating to Tungusic or its speakers.

Tungusic British  

/ tʊŋˈɡʊsɪk /

noun

1. a branch or subfamily of the Altaic family of languages, including Tungus and Manchu

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adjective

1. of or relating to these languages or their speakers

Etymology

Origin of Tungusic

First recorded in 1865–70; Tungus + -ic

Example Sentences

Some linguists believe they sprang from the same source, but others say extensive borrowing between ancient languages explains why certain sounds, terms, and grammatical features are common among many tongues, from Turkish to Tungusic.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 10, 2021

For more than 100 years, linguists have debated when, where, and how a group of languages spoken today across central and eastern Asia, including those in the Japanese, Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic families, emerged.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 10, 2021

For completeness' sake I add a short account of the Turanian family, chiefly taken from my Survey of Languages, published 1855:— Tungusic Class.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max

Of all members of the Tungusic family the Manchus alone can be called a historical people.

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court

None of the other Tungusic or north-east Siberian peoples possess any writing system except the Yukaghirs of the Yasachnaya affluent of the Kolymariver, who were visited in 1892 by the Russian traveller, S. Shargorodsky.

From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court