Correction: Lefort (2024). Altaic Elements in the Chinese Variety of Tangwang: True and False Direct Loans. Languages, 9(9), 293

The author has requested to make the following corrections to their original publication (Lefort, 2024).

There was an erroneous language family in Section 1.

A correction has been made to the first paragraph:

During the course of history, various groups of languages, including Mongolic, Turkic, and Manchu-Tungusic, have been in contact with the Chinese varieties spoken in Northern China and have induced changes to the phonology and morpheme structure, but also to syntax and morphosyntax.

Sun (1990) was incorrectly cited in Section 2.

A correction has been made to second paragraph:

Tangwang remains an under-described variety, both in China and in the West. Ibrahim (1985) was the first to partially describe the Tangwang language.

There was an erroneous statement in Section 3.

A correction has been made to the last paragraph of Section 3.2. Formal Distinction of the Word ‘Small’:

There are two words for ‘small’ attested in modern Mongolian as baga ‘small’ and dʑidʑig ‘small’, but only with a semantic distinction. Dʑidʑig refers just to physical size of the objects, while baga refers mainly to less important objects too. The distinction in Tangwang could have arisen from a semantic one and later developed to a syntactic one, but further researches need to be done.

The author states that the scientific conclusions are unaffected. This correction was approved by the Academic Editors. The original publication has also been updated.