PALEO-SIBERIAN LANGUAGES

also spelled Paleosiberian, also called Paleo-Asiatic, or Hyperborean, languages spoken in Asian Russia (Siberia) that belong to four genetically unrelated groupsYeniseian, Luorawetlan, Yukaghir, and Nivkh. Additional reading Dean Worth, Paleosiberian, in Thomas A. Sebeok (ed.), Current Trends in Linguistics, vol. 1 (1963), pp. 345373, provides good coverage of Soviet work after World War II. Roman Jakobson, Gerta Httl-Worth, and John Fred Beebe, Paleosiberian Peoples and Languages: A Bibliographical Guide (1957, reprinted 1981), is very useful, with an informative appendix. Still a good source on Paleo-Siberian languages is V.V. Vinogradov (ed.), IAzyki narodov SSSR, vol. 5, Mongol'skie, tunguso-man'chzhurskie i paleoaziatskie iazyki, ed. by P.Ia. Skorik et al. (1968). More recent studies, also in Russian, are the articles in N.I. Konrad et al. (eds.), IAzyki Azii i Afriki, vol. 3, IAzyki drevnei Perednei Azii (nesemitskie) (1979), in which Nivkh and Ket in particular are presented in more detail; a reconstruction of proto-Yeniseic by S.A. Starostin, Praeniseiskaia rekonstruktsiia i vneshnie sviazi eniseiskikh iazykov, in V.V. Ivanov, V.N. Toporov, and B.A. Uspenskii (eds.), Ketskii sbornik, vol. 3, Antropologiia, etnografiia, mifologiia, lingvistika (1982), pp. 144237; and A.N. Zhukova, IAzyk palanskikh koriakov (1980), a grammar of a southern Koryak dialect with texts, Russian translations, and dictionary appendices. Robert Austerlitz Daniel M. Abondolo