Table 1 Language family locations and means of food production in Northeast Asia
From: Northeast Asian Linguistic Ecology and the Advent of Rice Agriculture in Korea and Japan
Language | Region | Food production |
|---|---|---|
Ainuic | Hokkaido, Sakahlin | Hunting/fishing |
Amuric (Nivkh/Gilyak) | Amur estuary, Sakhalin | Hunting/fishing |
Japonic | Japanese archipelago | Rice farming |
Kamchukotic | Kamchatka | Hunting/fishing, reindeer pastoralism |
Koreanic | Korean peninsula | Rice farming |
Mongolic | Mongolia, China, Russia | Pastoralism |
Tungusic | China, Russia | Hunting/fishing, reindeer pastoralism |
Turkic | Siberia, Central Asia | Pastoralism |
Yeniseic | Yenisei basin | Hunting/fishing |
Yukaghiric | Sakha Republic | Hunting/reindeer pastoralism |