Author: ROMAN JAKOBSON, GERTA HUTTL-WORTH AND JOHN FRED BEEBE
Title: Paleosiberian peoples and languages. A bibliographical guide
Description: New Haven, HRAF Press. 1957, First Edition. Hardcover, 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. Book, vii, 222 pages. Ex-library, clean. An annotated listing arranged under language groups including unpublished archival sources and anonymous works. Paleosiberian (or Paleo-Siberian) languages or Paleoasian (Paleo-Asiatic) are several linguistic isolates and small families of languages spoken in parts of northeastern Siberia and the Russian Far East. They are not known to have any genetic relationship to each other; their only common link is that they are held to have antedated the more dominant languages, particularly Tungusic and latterly Turkic languages, that have largely displaced them. Even more recently, Turkic (at least in Siberia) and especially Tungusic have been displaced in their turn by Russian. Good.

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