Bøger af Alexander Vovin

This book presents Eastern Old Japanese corpus scattered in various 8-9th century texts and a cross-referenced dictionary including all the lexical items found in this corpus.

Book seventeen of the Man'yōshῡ ('Anthology of Myriad Leaves') continues Alexander Vovin's new English translation of this 20-volume work originally compiled between c.759 and 782 AD. It is the earliest Japanese poetic anthology in existence and thus the most important compendium of Japanese culture of the Asuka and Nara periods. Book seventeen is the fifth volume of the Man'yōshῡ to be published to date (following books fifteen (2009), five (2011), fourteen (2012) and twenty (2013)). Each volume of the Vovin translation contains the original text, kana transliteration, romanization, glossing and commentary.

The Tungusic Languages is a survey of Tungusic, a language family which is seriously endangered today, but which at the time of its maximum spread was present all over Northeast Asia.

The Japonic (Japanese and Ryukyuan) portmanteau language family and the Korean language have been considered isolates on the fringe of northeast Asia. This title reviews advances in the reconstruction of both language families.