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TUNGUSIC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A family of Altaic languages spoken in Mongolia and neighboring areas
Synonyms:
Tungusic; Tungusic language
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Tungusic" is a kind of...):
Altaic; Altaic language (a group of related languages spoken in Asia and southeastern Europe)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Tungusic"):
Evenki; Ewenki; Tungus; Tunguz (the Tungusic language of the Evenki in eastern Siberia)
Manchu (the Tungusic language spoken by the Manchu)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Any member of a people speaking a language in the Tungusic family
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Tungusic" is a kind of...):
Altaic (any member of the peoples speaking a language in the Altaic language group)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Tungusic"):
Evenk; Tungus (a member of the Tungus speaking people who are a nomadic people widely spread over eastern Siberia; related to the Manchu)
Manchu (a member of the Manchu speaking people of Manchuria; related to the Tungus; conquered China in the 17th century)
