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Did you know that vowels in Proto-Tungusic are traditionally categorized as "male" or "female"?
Proto-Tungusic, sometimes called Proto-Tungus–Manchu, is the reconstructed ancestor of the endangered Tungusic languages. Although its modern descendants are spoken over a wide area across the Russian Far East and northern China, linguists have narrowed the proto-language's origins to the area from around Lake Khanka southward toward the modern China–North Korea–Russia tripoint. Estimates of when the language was spoken vary somewhat, but it is believed to have been spoken around the turn of the first millennium AD. There is no consensus on precisely how the modern Tungusic languages are descended from Proto-Tungusic, but it eventually divided into four subfamilies: Ewenic, Udiheic, Nanaic, and Jurchenic.
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