Later poems in the same vein, simple in language, exhibit a concrete and immediate imagery.
From MOMA's "Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language" exhibit, listen to Dial-a-Poem, original recordings of poets reading their works.
First, those languages that show productive or active vowel harmony, with the exception of Baltic-Finnic, have had recent Turkic neighbours whose languages exhibited vowel harmony.
Within these very general guidelines, however, languages exhibit various types of structure.
The Tungus languages exhibit a contrast between short and long vowels; Manchu on the other hand does not exhibit a contrast in vowel length but is characterized by vowel clusters (e.g., Manchu uihe versus Oroqen iige 'horn').
It has been theorized that the linguistic forms most closely associated semantically with the expression of relations case inflections in languages exhibiting this category are originally and basically spatial in meaning.
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For example, Evenk has at least 11 distinct case suffixes, whereas written Manchu has 4 (Evenk bira-wa 'river [accusative],' bira-du 'river-on,' bira-la 'river-in,' etc).. Finally, Tungus languages exhibit subject agreement on verbal forms, but Manchu does not.
The name Luba applies to a variety of peoples who, though of different origins, speak closely related languages, exhibit many common cultural traits, and share a common political history with past members of the Luba empire, which flourished from approximately the late 15th through the late 19th century.
