Current progress in Altaic etymology

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The author’s team proper consists of three scholars: Sergei Starostin, Anna Dybo and Oleg Mudrak. In the end of 80-ties I. Ševeršidze cooperated too. S. Starostin elaborated the data of the Japanese, Korean and Tungus languages, A. Dybo the Turkic and also Tungus languages, O. Mudrak the Chuvash, Mongolian and Jurchen languages, plus V. Glumov, compiling also the Tungus data, and I. Gruntov, compiling also the Mongolian data. The head of the author’s team, Sergei Starostin, initiated his interest in Altaic from the historical phonetics of Japanese (1972, 1975a, 1975b, 1990, 1997). The preliminary sound correspondences and the lexicostatistic test among five Altaic branches were presented by Starostin in 1986. This study expanded into the monograph Altajskaja problema i proisxoždenie japonskogo jazyka (Moskva: Nauka 1991) where Starostin discussed the classical Altaic theory, following G.J. Ramstedt and N. Poppe (Turkic + Mongolian + Tungus, plus ocassionally Korean), plus Korean and Japanese following especially S. Martin and R.A. Miller respectively. In his book Starostin demonstrated the phonetic corresponences in details, including the new rules established by him for the first time. He has also published the 100-word-lists of all Altaic languages here. A. Dybo has published, among others, a series of studies, analyzing in details the

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