Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Language, it is often said, is a window into the human mind. David Harrison experienced this firsthand as a young linguist in the ...

The American Sean Quirk, who is one of musicians and the manager of the well-known in Russia and beyond Tuvinian Alash ensemble, speaks four languages. On foreign tours, he announces the songs of the ...

Vol. 62, No. 2, Glimpses of historical Central Asia Part II (2019), pp. 149-174 (26 pages) Poetry in the Tuvan language (Turkic family, south Siberia) uses a versification system known as strophic ...

For years, the territory that makes up Tuva spent hundreds of years changing hands. The semi-autonomous republic is now technically part of Russia. But Tuvans boast a musical identity all their own, ...

Shodekeh Talifero was a panelist at a conference on world affairs in 2009 when he met fellow panelist and legendary film critic Roger Ebert and the pair made a connection. “He wrote to me, ‘I wish I ...