Linguistic Mysteries of Ethnonyms in Inner Asia - eBook
9781498535281
1-4985-3528-3
In Linguistic Mysteries of Ethnonyms in Inner Asia, Penglin Wang focuses on semantics as a central theme in onomastics and strives to unravel the origin and meaning of a series of influential ethnonyms.
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such as Xianbei, Rouran, Taba, Tatar, Shiwei, Mongol, Merkid, Nzhen, Juen, and Nikan. Since much of modern research has dealt with issues of Inner Asian ethnonyms within a regional framework, Wangs exploration of the early Indo-European and Altaic influence on the ethnonymic designations of Mongol-Tungusic and Turkic groups opens up a new horizon for transcontinental approaches, which represent an important thrust in Inner Asian and Eurasian studies. Wang has based this comprehensive study on textual, cross-linguistic, and patterned analysis of the ethnonyms found primarily in ancient Chinese sources.
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