This chapter focuses of languages of Northern Eurasia. In particular, Finno-Ugric, Samoyedic, Turkic, Tungusic, and Mongolic languages are discussed, along with other, unrelated languages of Siberia. Their geographical distribution, historical relatedness and linguistic peculiarities (such as vowel harmony and agglutinative morphology) are outlined and illustrated. The final section illuminates one linguistic feature common to many languages of the region: the so-called evidential markers, which indicate the source of evidence for the speaker’s assertion.
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