College Bulletin 2022-2023 
    
    Mar 29, 2024  
College Bulletin 2022-2023 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

LING 064. Structure of Tuvan


Tuvan belongs to the Turkic branch of the Altaic language family and is spoken in Siberia and Mongolia by nomadic herders. It has classically agglutinating morphology and curious phenomena such as vowel harmony, converbs, and switch reference. It has rich sound symbolism, a tradition of oral (unwritten) epic tales, riddles, and world-famous song genres (“throat singing”). We will investigate the sounds, structures, oral traditions, and ethnography of Tuvan, using both printed and digital media.
Prerequisite: LING 050  and LING 045  or LING 052  or permission of the instructor.
Social sciences.
1 credit.
Eligible for ASIA, COGS
Catalog chapter: Linguistics  
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/linguistics


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