Languages in East Asia tend to have tonal vowels, and those of the north-eastern Caucasus are known for consonantal complexity: Ubykh has 78 consonant sounds.

东亚的语言往往有带声调的元音，而东北高加索地区的语言以辅音复杂而闻名：尤比克语有78个辅音。

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North-east Asia and Siberia have long been accepted as the launching ground for the first human colonisers of the New World.

长期以来，东北亚和西伯利亚一直被认为是新世界的首批人类殖民者的起点。

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The third wave, perhaps 10,000 or 9,000 years ago, saw the migration from North-east Asia of groups ancestral to the modern Eskimo and Aleut.

第三次浪潮大约发生在一万或九千年前，见证了东北亚的祖先群体向现代爱斯基摩人和阿留申人的迁移。

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"We are going to enforce the U.N.resolution," "North Korea is a very destabilizing element in East Asia.

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Clinton says the State Department's science envoys program is sending some of America's brightest scientists to North Africa, the Middle East, South and South-East Asia to fulfill President Obama's mandate to foster scientific and technological cooperation.

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For India though ASEAN provides another channel to North East Asia, particularly China.

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Such an arms race, she added, would destabilise North East Asia, "which is the principal reason why I think China is committed to do all that it can with us to try to remove that danger".

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Iwakuni is America's most important base in north-east Asia, being its closest airfield to North Korea and within easy reach of other potential hotspots, such as Taiwan.

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