Tungusology

English

Etymology

From Tungus +‎ -ology.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒlədʒi

Noun

Tungusology (uncountable)

1. The study of the Tungusic languages.
   • 1963, Thomas Albert Sebeok, Current Trends in Linguistics: Soviet and East European linguistics:

     Ligeti himself has mainly studied questions of Mongolology and Tungusology (including Manchu).

   • 1985, Language research, volume 21, page 135:

     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.

   • 1997, Hiroshi Shōji, Juha Janhunen, Northern minority languages: problems of survival, page 111:

     The Evenki volume of Castren's materials [Castren 1856] is generally considered to form the foundation of modern Tungusology.

Hyponyms

• Manjuristics

Derived terms

• Tungusologist

Related terms

• Tungusological

Translations

the study of the Tungusic languages

• Russian: тунгусове́дение n (tungusovédenije), тунгу́со-маньчжурове́дение n (tungúso-manʹčžurovédenije)