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292 relations: Abessive case, Ablative case, Accusative case, Adjective, Adposition, Advanced and retracted tongue root, Adverbial, Affirmation and negation, Affricate, Agglutination, Agglutinative language, Ahura Mazda, Alasha dialect, Alexis Manaster Ramer, Allative case, Altaic languages, Amdo, Animacy, Anna Dybo, Approximant, Arabic, Arabic script, Armenian language, Aspirated consonant, Auxiliary verb, Baarin Mongolian, Back vowel, Barga Mongols, Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Brill Publishers, Buddhist texts, Bugut inscription, Buryat language, Buryatia, Buryats, Byambyn Rinchen, Calque, Causative, Central consonant, Central vowel, Chakhar Mongolian, Chifeng, China, Chinese characters, Chinese language, Chinggeltei, Classical Mongolian language, Classical Tibetan, Clause, ... Expand index (242 more) »
- Central Mongolic languages
- Languages attested from the 13th century
- Languages of Mongolia
- Languages written in Cyrillic script
Abessive case
In linguistics, abessive (abbreviated or), caritive (abbreviated) and privative (abbreviated) is the grammatical case expressing the lack or absence of the marked noun.
See Mongolian language and Abessive case
Ablative case
In grammar, the ablative case (pronounced; sometimes abbreviated) is a grammatical case for nouns, pronouns, and adjectives in the grammars of various languages; it is sometimes used to express motion away from something, among other uses.
See Mongolian language and Ablative case
Accusative case
In grammar, the accusative case (abbreviated) of a noun is the grammatical case used to receive the direct object of a transitive verb.
See Mongolian language and Accusative case
Adjective
An adjective (abbreviated adj.) is a word that describes or defines a noun or noun phrase.
See Mongolian language and Adjective
Adposition
Adpositions are a class of words used to express spatial or temporal relations (in, under, towards, behind, ago, etc.) or mark various semantic roles (of, for).
See Mongolian language and Adposition
Advanced and retracted tongue root
In phonetics, advanced tongue root (ATR) and retracted tongue root (RTR) are contrasting states of the root of the tongue during the pronunciation of vowels in some languages, especially in Western and Eastern Africa, but also in Kazakh and Mongolian.
See Mongolian language and Advanced and retracted tongue root
Adverbial
In English grammar, an adverbial (abbreviated) is a word (an adverb) or a group of words (an adverbial clause or adverbial phrase) that modifies or more closely defines the sentence or the verb.
See Mongolian language and Adverbial
Affirmation and negation
In linguistics and grammar, affirmation (abbreviated) and negation are ways in which grammar encodes positive and negative polarity into verb phrases, clauses, or other utterances.
See Mongolian language and Affirmation and negation
Affricate
An affricate is a consonant that begins as a stop and releases as a fricative, generally with the same place of articulation (most often coronal).
See Mongolian language and Affricate
Agglutination
In linguistics, agglutination is a morphological process in which words are formed by stringing together morphemes, each of which corresponds to a single syntactic feature.
See Mongolian language and Agglutination
Agglutinative language
An agglutinative language is a type of synthetic language with morphology that primarily uses agglutination. Mongolian language and agglutinative language are agglutinative languages.
See Mongolian language and Agglutinative language
Ahura Mazda
Ahura Mazda (𐬀𐬵𐬎𐬭𐬀 𐬨𐬀𐬰𐬛𐬁|translit.
See Mongolian language and Ahura Mazda
Alasha dialect
Alasha (in some Mongolian varieties; Mongolian script:, Mongolian Cyrillic: Алшаа), or, is a Mongolic variety with features of both Oirat and Mongolian that historically used to belong to Oirat but has come under the influence of Mongolian proper. Mongolian language and Alasha dialect are central Mongolic languages.
See Mongolian language and Alasha dialect
Alexis Manaster Ramer
Alexis Manaster Ramer (born 1956) is a Polish-born American linguist (PhD 1981, University of Chicago).
See Mongolian language and Alexis Manaster Ramer
Allative case
The allative case (abbreviated; from Latin allāt-, afferre "to bring to") is a type of locative grammatical case.
See Mongolian language and Allative case
Altaic languages
Altaic is a controversial proposed language family that would include the Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic language families and possibly also the Japonic and Koreanic languages. Mongolian language and Altaic languages are agglutinative languages.
See Mongolian language and Altaic languages
Amdo
Amdo is one of the three traditional Tibetan regions, the others being Ü-Tsang in central Tibet, and Kham in the east.
See Mongolian language and Amdo
Animacy
Animacy (antonym: inanimacy) is a grammatical and semantic feature, existing in some languages, expressing how sentient or alive the referent of a noun is.
See Mongolian language and Animacy
Anna Dybo
Anna Vladimirovna Dybo (Анна Владимировна Дыбо, born June 4, 1959) is a Russian linguist, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and co-author (with Sergei Starostin) of the Etymological Dictionary of the Altaic Languages (2003), which encompasses some 3,000 Proto-Altaic stems.
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Approximant
Approximants are speech sounds that involve the articulators approaching each other but not narrowly enough nor with enough articulatory precision to create turbulent airflow.
See Mongolian language and Approximant
Arabic
Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.
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Arabic script
The Arabic script is the writing system used for Arabic and several other languages of Asia and Africa.
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Armenian language
Armenian (endonym) is an Indo-European language and the sole member of the independent branch of the Armenian language family. Mongolian language and Armenian language are agglutinative languages, languages of Russia and subject–object–verb languages.
See Mongolian language and Armenian language
Aspirated consonant
In phonetics, aspiration is the strong burst of breath that accompanies either the release or, in the case of preaspiration, the closure of some obstruents.
See Mongolian language and Aspirated consonant
Auxiliary verb
An auxiliary verb (abbreviated) is a verb that adds functional or grammatical meaning to the clause in which it occurs, so as to express tense, aspect, modality, voice, emphasis, etc.
See Mongolian language and Auxiliary verb
Baarin Mongolian
Baarin (Mongolian, Chinese 巴林 Bālín) is a dialect of Mongolian spoken mainly in Inner Mongolia. Mongolian language and Baarin Mongolian are agglutinative languages and central Mongolic languages.
See Mongolian language and Baarin Mongolian
Back vowel
A back vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in spoken languages.
See Mongolian language and Back vowel
Barga Mongols
The Barga (Mongol: Барга) are a subgroup of the Buryats which gave its name to the Baikal region – "Bargujin-Tukum" (Bargujin Tökhöm) – "the land's end", according to the 13th-14th centuries Mongol people's conception.
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Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture
Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture is an autonomous prefecture in the southeastern Xinjiang, China.
See Mongolian language and Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture
Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture
Bortala Mongol Autonomous Prefecture is an autonomous prefecture in the northern Xinjiang, China.
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Brill Publishers
Brill Academic Publishers, also known as E. J. Brill, Koninklijke Brill, Brill, is a Dutch international academic publisher of books and journals.
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Buddhist texts
Buddhist texts are religious texts that belong to, or are associated with, Buddhism and its traditions.
See Mongolian language and Buddhist texts
Bugut inscription
The Bugut inscription (Bugut) is a multi-lingual inscription first discovered in Ikh-Tamir sum of Arkhangai Province, Mongolia.
See Mongolian language and Bugut inscription
Buryat language
Buryat or Buriat, known in foreign sources as the Bargu-Buryat dialect of Mongolian, and in pre-1956 Soviet sources as Buryat-Mongolian, is a variety of the Mongolic languages spoken by the Buryats and Bargas that is classified either as a language or major dialect group of Mongolian. Mongolian language and Buryat language are agglutinative languages, central Mongolic languages, languages of Mongolia, languages of Russia, languages written in Cyrillic script and subject–object–verb languages.
See Mongolian language and Buryat language
Buryatia
Buryatia (Buryatiya; Buryaad Ulas), officially the Republic of Buryatia, is a republic of Russia located in the Russian Far East.
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Buryats
The Buryats are a Mongolic ethnic group native to southeastern Siberia who speak the Buryat language.
See Mongolian language and Buryats
Byambyn Rinchen
Byambyn Rinchen (Бямбын Ринчен; 21 November 1905 – 4 March 1977), also known as Rinchen Bimbayev, was a Mongolian scholar and writer.
See Mongolian language and Byambyn Rinchen
Calque
In linguistics, a calque or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal word-for-word or root-for-root translation.
See Mongolian language and Calque
Causative
In linguistics, a causative (abbreviated) is a valency-increasing operationPayne, Thomas E. (1997).
See Mongolian language and Causative
Central consonant
A central consonant, also known as a median consonant, is a consonant sound that is produced when air flows across the center of the mouth over the tongue.
See Mongolian language and Central consonant
Central vowel
A central vowel, formerly also known as a mixed vowel, is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.
See Mongolian language and Central vowel
Chakhar Mongolian
Chakhar is a variety of Mongolian spoken in the central region of Inner Mongolia. Mongolian language and Chakhar Mongolian are agglutinative languages and central Mongolic languages.
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Chifeng
Chifeng, also known as Ulankhad in Mongolian, is a prefecture-level city in Southeastern Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
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Chinese characters
Chinese characters are logographs used to write the Chinese languages and others from regions historically influenced by Chinese culture.
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Chinese language
Chinese is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in China.
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Chinggeltei
Chinggeltei (12 June 1924 – 27 December 2013; also Činggeltei, Chinggaltai, Chenggeltai, or Chenggeltei) was a professor of linguistics at the Inner Mongolia University in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China, focusing on the Mongolic languages.
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Classical Mongolian language
Classical Mongolian was the literary language of Mongolian that was first introduced shortly after 1600, when Ligdan Khan set his clergy the task of translating the whole of the Tibetan Buddhist canon, consisting of the Kangyur and Tengyur, into Mongolian.
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Classical Tibetan
Classical Tibetan refers to the language of any text written in Tibetic after the Old Tibetan period.
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Clause
In language, a clause is a constituent or phrase that comprises a semantic predicand (expressed or not) and a semantic predicate.
See Mongolian language and Clause
Clear Script
The Clear Script (valign / Тодо бичиг|translit.
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Close vowel
A close vowel, also known as a high vowel (in U.S. terminology), is any in a class of vowel sounds used in many spoken languages.
See Mongolian language and Close vowel
Close-mid central rounded vowel
The close-mid central rounded vowel, or high-mid central rounded vowel, is a type of vowel sound.
See Mongolian language and Close-mid central rounded vowel
Close-mid vowel
A close-mid vowel (also mid-close vowel, high-mid vowel, mid-high vowel or half-close vowel) is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.
See Mongolian language and Close-mid vowel
Comitative case
In grammar, the comitative case is a grammatical case that denotes accompaniment.
See Mongolian language and Comitative case
Complement (linguistics)
In grammar, a complement is a word, phrase, or clause that is necessary to complete the meaning of a given expression.
See Mongolian language and Complement (linguistics)
Complementizer
In linguistics (especially generative grammar), a complementizer or complementiser (glossing abbreviation) is a functional category (part of speech) that includes those words that can be used to turn a clause into the subject or object of a sentence.
See Mongolian language and Complementizer
Compound (linguistics)
In linguistics, a compound is a lexeme (less precisely, a word or sign) that consists of more than one stem.
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Conjunction (grammar)
In grammar, a conjunction (abbreviated or) is a part of speech that connects words, phrases, or clauses that are called the conjuncts of the conjunctions.
See Mongolian language and Conjunction (grammar)
Continuous and progressive aspects
The continuous and progressive aspects (abbreviated and) are grammatical aspects that express incomplete action ("to do") or state ("to be") in progress at a specific time: they are non-habitual, imperfective aspects.
See Mongolian language and Continuous and progressive aspects
Converb
In theoretical linguistics, a converb (abbreviated) is a nonfinite verb form that serves to express adverbial subordination: notions like 'when', 'because', 'after' and 'while'.
See Mongolian language and Converb
Copula (linguistics)
In linguistics, a copula /‘kɑpjələ/ (copulas or copulae; abbreviated) is a word or phrase that links the subject of a sentence to a subject complement, such as the word is in the sentence "The sky is blue" or the phrase was not being in the sentence "It was not being cooperative." The word copula derives from the Latin noun for a "link" or "tie" that connects two different things.
See Mongolian language and Copula (linguistics)
Coverb
A coverb is a word or prefix that resembles a verb or co-operates with a verb.
See Mongolian language and Coverb
Cyrillic script
The Cyrillic script, Slavonic script or simply Slavic script is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia.
See Mongolian language and Cyrillic script
Dagur language
The Dagur, Daghur, Dahur, or Daur language, is a Mongolic language, as well as a distinct branch of the Mongolic language family, and is primarily spoken by members of the Daur ethnic group. Mongolian language and Dagur language are agglutinative languages.
See Mongolian language and Dagur language
Darkhad dialect
Darkhad (also "Darkhat") is a dialect in-between Central Mongolian and Oirat still variously seen as closer to Oirat or as a dialect of Khalkha Mongolian with some Oirat features. Mongolian language and Darkhad dialect are languages of Mongolia.
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Dative case
In grammar, the dative case (abbreviated, or sometimes when it is a core argument) is a grammatical case used in some languages to indicate the recipient or beneficiary of an action, as in "", Latin for "Maria gave Jacob a drink".
See Mongolian language and Dative case
Definiteness
In linguistics, definiteness is a semantic feature of noun phrases that distinguishes between referents or senses that are identifiable in a given context (definite noun phrases) and those that are not (indefinite noun phrases).
See Mongolian language and Definiteness
Demonstrative
Demonstratives (abbreviated) are words, such as this and that, used to indicate which entities are being referred to and to distinguish those entities from others.
See Mongolian language and Demonstrative
Dental consonant
A dental consonant is a consonant articulated with the tongue against the upper teeth, such as,. In some languages, dentals are distinguished from other groups, such as alveolar consonants, in which the tongue contacts the gum ridge.
See Mongolian language and Dental consonant
Dependent clause
A dependent clause, also known as a subordinate clause, subclause or embedded clause, is a certain type of clause that juxtaposes an independent clause within a complex sentence.
See Mongolian language and Dependent clause
Dialect
Dialect (from Latin,, from the Ancient Greek word, 'discourse', from, 'through' and, 'I speak') refers to two distinctly different types of linguistic relationships.
See Mongolian language and Dialect
Dialect continuum
A dialect continuum or dialect chain is a series of language varieties spoken across some geographical area such that neighboring varieties are mutually intelligible, but the differences accumulate over distance so that widely separated varieties may not be.
See Mongolian language and Dialect continuum
Differential object marking
In linguistics, differential object marking (DOM) is the phenomenon in which certain objects of verbs are marked to reflect various syntactic and semantic factors.
See Mongolian language and Differential object marking
Diphthong
A diphthong, also known as a gliding vowel or a vowel glide, is a combination of two adjacent vowel sounds within the same syllable.
See Mongolian language and Diphthong
Dzungaria
Dzungaria (from the Mongolian words, meaning 'left hand'), also known as Northern Xinjiang or Beijiang, is a geographical subregion in Northwest China that corresponds to the northern half of Xinjiang.
See Mongolian language and Dzungaria
East Asia
East Asia is a geographical and cultural region of Asia including the countries of China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan.
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Eight Banners
The Eight Banners (in Manchu: jakūn gūsa,, ᠨᠠᠶᠢᠮᠠᠨ ᠬᠣᠰᠢᠭᠤ) were administrative and military divisions under the Later Jin and Qing dynasties of China into which all Manchu households were placed.
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Ellipsis (linguistics)
In linguistics, ellipsis or an elliptical construction is the omission from a clause of one or more words that are nevertheless understood in the context of the remaining elements.
See Mongolian language and Ellipsis (linguistics)
Encyclopædia Britannica
The British Encyclopaedia is a general knowledge English-language encyclopaedia.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the island of Great Britain.
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Epenthesis
In phonology, epenthesis (Greek) means the addition of one or more sounds to a word, especially in the beginning syllable (prothesis) or in the ending syllable (paragoge) or in-between two syllabic sounds in a word.
See Mongolian language and Epenthesis
Evidentiality
In linguistics, evidentiality is, broadly, the indication of the nature of evidence for a given statement; that is, whether evidence exists for the statement and if so, what kind.
See Mongolian language and Evidentiality
ʼPhags-pa script
The Phagspa script or Phags-pa script is an alphabet designed by the Tibetan monk and State Preceptor (later Imperial Preceptor) Drogön Chögyal Phagpa (1235-1280) for Kublai Khan, the founder of the Yuan dynasty (1271-1368) in China, as a unified script for the written languages within the Yuan.
See Mongolian language and ʼPhags-pa script
Finno-Ugrian Society
Finno-Ugrian Society (Société Finno-Ougrienne, Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura) is a Finnish learned society, dedicated to the study of Uralic and Altaic languages.
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Fricative
A fricative is a consonant produced by forcing air through a narrow channel made by placing two articulators close together.
See Mongolian language and Fricative
Front vowel
A front vowel is a class of vowel sounds used in some spoken languages, its defining characteristic being that the highest point of the tongue is positioned as far forward as possible in the mouth without creating a constriction that would otherwise make it a consonant.
See Mongolian language and Front vowel
Fundamental frequency
The fundamental frequency, often referred to simply as the fundamental, is defined as the lowest frequency of a periodic waveform.
See Mongolian language and Fundamental frequency
Galik alphabet
The Galik script (Ali-Gali üseg) is an extension to the traditional Mongolian script.
See Mongolian language and Galik alphabet
Gansu
Gansu is an inland province in Northwestern China.
See Mongolian language and Gansu
Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan (born Temüjin; August 1227), also known as Chinggis Khan, was the founder and first khan of the Mongol Empire.
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Genitive case
In grammar, the genitive case (abbreviated) is the grammatical case that marks a word, usually a noun, as modifying another word, also usually a noun—thus indicating an attributive relationship of one noun to the other noun.
See Mongolian language and Genitive case
Grammatical aspect
In linguistics, aspect is a grammatical category that expresses how a verbal action, event, or state, extends over time.
See Mongolian language and Grammatical aspect
Grammatical case
A grammatical case is a category of nouns and noun modifiers (determiners, adjectives, participles, and numerals) that corresponds to one or more potential grammatical functions for a nominal group in a wording.
See Mongolian language and Grammatical case
Grammatical particle
In grammar, the term particle (abbreviated) has a traditional meaning, as a part of speech that cannot be inflected, and a modern meaning, as a function word (functor) associated with another word or phrase in order to impart meaning.
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Grammatical tense
In grammar, tense is a category that expresses time reference.
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Haixi Mongol and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Haixi Mongolian and Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (style), locally also known as Qaidam Prefecture (ᠴᠠᠢᠳᠠᠮ), is an autonomous prefecture occupying much of the northern half of (as well as part of the southwest of) Qinghai Province, China.
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Head (linguistics)
In linguistics, the head or nucleus of a phrase is the word that determines the syntactic category of that phrase.
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Heilongjiang
Heilongjiang is a province in northeast China.
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Historical linguistics
Historical linguistics, also termed diachronic linguistics, is the scientific study of language change over time.
See Mongolian language and Historical linguistics
Hoboksar Mongol Autonomous County
Hoboksar, sometimes referred with the historic name Hefeng County, is an autonomous county for Mongol people in the middle north of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, Western China, it is under the administration of Tacheng Prefecture.
See Mongolian language and Hoboksar Mongol Autonomous County
Hulunbuir
Hulunbuir or Hulun Buir is a region that is governed as a prefecture-level city in northeastern Inner Mongolia, China.
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Huns
The Huns were a nomadic people who lived in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Eastern Europe between the 4th and 6th centuries AD.
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Igor de Rachewiltz
Igor de Rachewiltz (April 11, 1929 – July 30, 2016) was an Italian historian and philologist specializing in Mongol studies.
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Independent clause
In traditional grammar, an independent clause (or main clause) is a clause that can stand by itself as a simple sentence.
See Mongolian language and Independent clause
Inner Mongolia
Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China.
See Mongolian language and Inner Mongolia
Inner Mongolia Education Press
The Inner Mongolia Education Press (IMEP) is a publishing company in the Inner Mongolia autonomous region of the People's Republic of China.
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Inner Mongolia People's Publishing House
The Inner Mongolia People's Publishing House (IMPPH) is a publishing company based in Hohhot, the capital of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region of the People's Republic of China.
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Inscription of Hüis Tolgoi
The Inscription of Hüis Tolgoi (HT) is a monolingual inscription in a Mongolian language found in Bulgan Province, Mongolia in 1975 by D. Navaan.
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Instrumental case
In grammar, the instrumental case (abbreviated or) is a grammatical case used to indicate that a noun is the instrument or means by or with which the subject achieves or accomplishes an action.
See Mongolian language and Instrumental case
Intensity (physics)
In physics and many other areas of science and engineering the intensity or flux of radiant energy is the power transferred per unit area, where the area is measured on the plane perpendicular to the direction of propagation of the energy.
See Mongolian language and Intensity (physics)
International Phonetic Alphabet
The International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is an alphabetic system of phonetic notation based primarily on the Latin script.
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Interrogative word
An interrogative word or question word is a function word used to ask a question, such as what, which, when, where, who, whom, whose, why, whether and how.
See Mongolian language and Interrogative word
Iotation
In Slavic languages, iotation is a form of palatalization that occurs when a consonant comes into contact with the palatal approximant from the succeeding phoneme.
See Mongolian language and Iotation
Irkutsk Oblast
Irkutsk Oblast (Irkutskaya oblastʹ; Erkhüü mojo) is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in southeastern Siberia in the basins of the Angara, Lena, and Nizhnyaya Tunguska Rivers.
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Issyk-Kul Region
Issyk-Kul Region (Ysyk-Köl oblusu; Issyk-Kulskaya oblast) is one of the regions of Kyrgyzstan.
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Jan-Olof Svantesson
Jan-Olof Svantesson, born 1944, is a professor of Linguistics at Lund University, Sweden.
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Japanese language
is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. Mongolian language and Japanese language are agglutinative languages and subject–object–verb languages.
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Japonic languages
Japonic or Japanese–Ryukyuan (Nichiryū gozoku), sometimes also Japanic, is a language family comprising Japanese, spoken in the main islands of Japan, and the Ryukyuan languages, spoken in the Ryukyu Islands.
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Jilin
Jilin is one of the three provinces of Northeast China.
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Jin dynasty (1115–1234)
The Jin dynasty, officially known as the Great Jin, was an imperial dynasty of China that existed between 1115 and 1234 founded by Emperor Taizu (first).
See Mongolian language and Jin dynasty (1115–1234)
Josutu League
The Josutu League (ǰosutu-yin čiɣulɣan) was the southernmost league of Inner Mongolia during Qing rule.
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Jupiter
Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.
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Jurchen language
Jurchen language (p) was the Tungusic language of the Jurchen people of eastern Manchuria, the rulers of the Jin dynasty in northern China of the 12th and 13th centuries. Mongolian language and Jurchen language are agglutinative languages.
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Kalmyk Oirat
Kalmyk Oirat (Хальмг Өөрдин келн, Haľmg Öördin keln), commonly known as the Kalmyk language (Хальмг келн, Haľmg keln), is a variety of the Oirat language, natively spoken by the Kalmyk people of Kalmykia, a federal subject of Russia. Mongolian language and Kalmyk Oirat are agglutinative languages, central Mongolic languages and languages of Russia.
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Kalmykia
Kalmykia, officially the Republic of Kalmykia, is a republic of Russia, located in the North Caucasus region of Southern Russia.
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Kangyur
The Tibetan Buddhist canon is a defined collection of sacred texts recognized by various schools of Tibetan Buddhism, comprising the Kangyur and the Tengyur.
See Mongolian language and Kangyur
Khalkha Mongolian
The Khalkha dialect (Халхаялгуу / Halh ayalguu /) is a dialect of central Mongolic widely spoken in Mongolia. Mongolian language and Khalkha Mongolian are agglutinative languages and central Mongolic languages.
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Khamnigan Mongol
Khamnigan (Khamnigan) is a Mongolic language spoken by the Hamnigan people east of Lake Baikal. Mongolian language and Khamnigan Mongol are central Mongolic languages, languages of Mongolia and languages of Russia.
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Khitan language
Khitan or Kitan (in large script or in small, Khitai;, Qìdānyǔ), also known as Liao, is an extinct language once spoken in Northeast Asia by the Khitan people (4th to 13th century). Mongolian language and Khitan language are agglutinative languages.
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Khitan large script
The Khitan large script was one of two writing systems used for the now-extinct Khitan language (the other was the Khitan small script).
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Khitan people
The Khitan people (Khitan small script) were a historical nomadic people from Northeast Asia who, from the 4th century, inhabited an area corresponding to parts of modern Mongolia, Northeast China and the Russian Far East.
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Khorchin Mongolian
The Khorchin (Mongolian, Chinese 科尔沁 Kē'ěrqìn) dialect is a variety of Mongolian spoken in the east of Inner Mongolia, namely in Hinggan League, in the north, north-east and east of Hinggan and in all but the south of the Tongliao region. Mongolian language and Khorchin Mongolian are agglutinative languages and central Mongolic languages.
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Kirakos Gandzaketsi
Kirakos Gandzaketsi (c. 1200/1202–1271) was an Armenian historian of the 13th centuryS. Peter Cowe.
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Korean language
Korean (South Korean: 한국어, Hangugeo; North Korean: 조선말, Chosŏnmal) is the native language for about 81 million people, mostly of Korean descent. Mongolian language and Korean language are agglutinative languages and subject–object–verb languages.
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Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan, officially the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia, lying in the Tian Shan and Pamir mountain ranges.
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Labial consonant
Labial consonants are consonants in which one or both lips are the active articulator.
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Language family
A language family is a group of languages related through descent from a common ancestral language or parental language, called the proto-language of that family.
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Lateral consonant
A lateral is a consonant in which the airstream proceeds along one or both of the sides of the tongue, but it is blocked by the tongue from going through the middle of the mouth.
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Latin script
The Latin script, also known as the Roman script, is a writing system based on the letters of the classical Latin alphabet, derived from a form of the Greek alphabet which was in use in the ancient Greek city of Cumae in Magna Graecia.
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Lexical aspect
In linguistics, the lexical aspect or Aktionsart (plural Aktionsarten) of a verb is part of the way in which that verb is structured in relation to time.
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Liao dynasty
The Liao dynasty (Khitan: Mos Jælud), also known as the Khitan Empire (Khitan: Mos diau-d kitai huldʒi gur), officially the Great Liao, was an imperial dynasty of China that existed between 916 and 1125, ruled by the Yelü clan of the Khitan people.
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Liaoning
Liaoning is a coastal province in Northeast China that is the smallest, southernmost, and most populous province in the region.
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Literacy
Literacy is the ability to read and write.
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Loanword
A loanword (also a loan word, loan-word) is a word at least partly assimilated from one language (the donor language) into another language (the recipient or target language), through the process of borrowing.
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Locative case
In grammar, the locative case (abbreviated) is a grammatical case which indicates a location.
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Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area
The Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area is a sprachbund including languages of the Sino-Tibetan, Hmong–Mien (or Miao–Yao), Kra–Dai, Austronesian and Austroasiatic families spoken in an area stretching from Thailand to China.
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Manchu language
Manchu (Manchu:, Romanization) is a critically endangered East Asian Tungusic language native to the historical region of Manchuria in Northeast China. Mongolian language and Manchu language are agglutinative languages and subject–object–verb languages.
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Manchuria
Manchuria is a term that refers to a region in Northeast Asia encompassing the entirety of present-day Northeast China, and historically parts of the modern-day Russian Far East, often referred to as Outer Manchuria.
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Mandarin Chinese
Mandarin is a group of Chinese language dialects that are natively spoken across most of northern and southwestern China.
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Markedness
In linguistics and social sciences, markedness is the state of standing out as nontypical or divergent as opposed to regular or common.
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Meilisi Daur District
Meilisi Daur District is an outlying district of the city of Qiqihar, Heilongjiang Province, China.
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Mercury (planet)
Mercury is the first planet from the Sun and the smallest in the Solar System.
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Middle Chinese
Middle Chinese (formerly known as Ancient Chinese) or the Qieyun system (QYS) is the historical variety of Chinese recorded in the Qieyun, a rime dictionary first published in 601 and followed by several revised and expanded editions.
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Middle Mongol
Middle Mongol or Middle Mongolian was a Mongolic koiné language spoken in the Mongol Empire.
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Modal particle
In linguistics, modal particles are always uninflected words, and are a type of grammatical particle.
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Modality (linguistics)
In linguistics and philosophy, modality refers to the ways language can express various relationships to reality or truth.
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Moghol language
Moghol (or Mogholi; Dari) is a critically endangered or possibly extinct Mongolic language spoken in the province of Herat, Afghanistan, in the villages of Kundur and Karez-i-Mulla. Mongolian language and Moghol language are agglutinative languages.
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Mongol Empire
The Mongol Empire of the 13th and 14th centuries was the largest contiguous empire in history.
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Mongolia
Mongolia is a landlocked country in East Asia, bordered by Russia to the north and China to the south.
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Mongolian Academy of Sciences
The Mongolian Academy of Sciences (Mongol ulsyn Shinjlekh ukhaany Akademi) is Mongolia's first centre of modern sciences.
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Mongolian Braille
Mongolian Braille is the braille alphabet used for the Mongolian language in Mongolia.
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Mongolian Cyrillic alphabet
The Mongolian Cyrillic alphabet (Mongolian: Монгол Кирилл үсэг, Mongol Kirill üseg or Кирилл цагаан толгой, Kirill tsagaan tolgoi) is the writing system used for the standard dialect of the Mongolian language in the modern state of Mongolia.
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Mongolian language in Inner Mongolia
In the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of China, the Mongolian language is the official provincial language (alongside Chinese).
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Mongolian Latin alphabet
The Mongolian Latin script (Mongolian Cyrillic: Монгол Латин үсэг, Mongol Latin üseg; Mongolian Latin: Mongol Latiin ysyg; Traditional Mongolian script) was officially adopted in Mongolia in 1931.
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Mongolian literature
Mongolian literature is literature written in Mongolia and/or in the Mongolian language.
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Mongolian name
Mongolian names have undergone a number of changes in the history of Mongolia, both with regard to their meaning and their source languages.
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Mongolian Plateau
The Mongolian Plateau is an inland plateau in Asia that lies between 37°46′-53°08′N and 87°40′-122°15′E and has an area of approximately.
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Mongolian script
The traditional Mongolian script, also known as the Hudum Mongol bichig, was the first writing system created specifically for the Mongolian language, and was the most widespread until the introduction of Cyrillic in 1946.
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Mongolian Sign Language
Mongolian Sign Language (MSL; translit) is a sign language used in Mongolia. Mongolian language and Mongolian Sign Language are languages of Mongolia.
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Mongolian transliteration of Chinese characters
Mongolian transliteration of Chinese characters is a system of transliterating the Standard Chinese pinyin readings of Chinese characters using the traditional Mongolian script that is used in Inner Mongolia, China.
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Mongolian writing systems
Various Mongolian writing systems have been devised for the Mongolian language over the centuries, and from a variety of scripts.
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Mongolic languages
The Mongolic languages are a language family spoken by the Mongolic peoples in Eastern Europe, Central Asia, North Asia and East Asia, mostly in Mongolia and surrounding areas and in Kalmykia and Buryatia. Mongolian language and Mongolic languages are languages of Mongolia and languages of Russia.
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Mongolic peoples
The Mongolic peoples are a collection of East Asian-originated ethnic groups in East, North, South Asia and Eastern Europe, who speak Mongolic languages.
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Mongols
The Mongols are an East Asian ethnic group native to Mongolia, China (majority in Inner Mongolia), as well as Buryatia and Kalmykia of Russia.
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Mongols in China
Mongols in China, also known as Chinese Mongolians, are ethnic Mongols who live in China.
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Monophthong
A monophthong is a pure vowel sound, one whose articulation at only beginning and end is relatively fixed, and which does not glide up or down towards a new position of articulation.
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Morin Dawa Daur Autonomous Banner
Morin Dawa Daur Autonomous Banner (Mongolian:; Dagur: Морин Даваа Даор Ихькиеву Гуасей), often abbreviated in official documents as Mo Banner, is one of three autonomous banners in Inner Mongolia, China, created for the Daur people.
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Morpheme
A morpheme is the smallest meaningful constituent of a linguistic expression.
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Morphological derivation
Morphological derivation, in linguistics, is the process of forming a new word from an existing word, often by adding a prefix or suffix, such as For example, unhappy and happiness derive from the root word happy. It is differentiated from inflection, which is the modification of a word to form different grammatical categories without changing its core meaning: determines, determining, and determined are from the root determine.
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Morphology (linguistics)
In linguistics, morphology is the study of words, including the principles by which they are formed, and how they relate to one another within a language.
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Nasal consonant
In phonetics, a nasal, also called a nasal occlusive or nasal stop in contrast with an oral stop or nasalized consonant, is an occlusive consonant produced with a lowered velum, allowing air to escape freely through the nose.
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Near-close vowel
A near-close vowel or a near-high vowel is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.
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Nicholas Poppe
Nicholas N. Poppe (Никола́й/Ни́колас Никола́евич Поппе, Nikoláj/Níkolas Nikolájevič Poppe; 27 July 1897 – 8 August 1991) was an important Russian linguist.
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Nominative case
In grammar, the nominative case (abbreviated), subjective case, straight case, or upright case is one of the grammatical cases of a noun or other part of speech, which generally marks the subject of a verb, or (in Latin and formal variants of English) a predicative nominal or adjective, as opposed to its object, or other verb arguments.
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North Asia
North Asia or Northern Asia is the northern region of Asia, which is defined in geographical terms and consists of three federal districts of Russia: Ural, Siberian, and the Far Eastern.
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Northern Wei
Wei, known in historiography as the Northern Wei, Tuoba Wei, Yuan Wei and Later Wei, was an imperial dynasty of China ruled by the Tuoba (Tabgach) clan of the Xianbei.
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Noun
In grammar, a noun is a word that represents a concrete or abstract thing, such as living creatures, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, and ideas.
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Noun adjunct
In grammar, a noun adjunct, attributive noun, qualifying noun, noun (pre)modifier, or apposite noun is an optional noun that modifies another noun; functioning similarly to an adjective, it is, more specifically, a noun functioning as a pre-modifier in a noun phrase.
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Noun phrase
A noun phrase – or NP or nominal (phrase) – is a phrase that usually has a noun or pronoun as its head, and has the same grammatical functions as a noun.
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Numeral (linguistics)
In linguistics, a numeral in the broadest sense is a word or phrase that describes a numerical quantity.
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Object (grammar)
In linguistics, an object is any of several types of arguments.
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Oirat language
Oirat (Clear script:,,; Kalmyk: Өөрд,; Khalkha Mongolian: Ойрад) is a Mongolic language spoken by the descendants of Oirat Mongols, now forming parts of Mongols in China, Kalmyks in Russia and Mongolians. Mongolian language and Oirat language are agglutinative languages, central Mongolic languages, languages of Mongolia and languages of Russia.
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Oirats
Oirats (Ойрад, Oirad) or Oirds (Ойрд, Oird; Өөрд; 瓦剌, Wǎlà/Wǎlā), also formerly Eluts and Eleuths (厄魯特, Èlǔtè), are the westernmost group of the Mongols whose ancestral home is in the Altai region of Siberia, Xinjiang and western Mongolia.
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Old English
Old English (Englisċ or Ænglisc), or Anglo-Saxon, was the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages.
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Old French
Old French (franceis, françois, romanz; ancien français) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France approximately between the late 8th and the mid-14th century.
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Old High German
Old High German (OHG; Althochdeutsch (Ahdt., Ahd.)) is the earliest stage of the German language, conventionally identified as the period from around 500/750 to 1050.
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Old Turkic
Old Siberian Turkic, generally known as East Old Turkic and often shortened to Old Turkic, was a Siberian Turkic language spoken around East Turkistan and Mongolia. Mongolian language and Old Turkic are agglutinative languages.
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Old Uyghur alphabet
The Old Uyghur alphabet was a Turkic script used for writing Old Uyghur, a variety of Old Turkic spoken in Turpan and Gansu that is the ancestor of the modern Western Yugur language.
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Open vowel
An open vowel is a vowel sound in which the tongue is positioned as far as possible from the roof of the mouth.
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Open-mid vowel
An open-mid vowel (also mid-open vowel, low-mid vowel, mid-low vowel or half-open vowel) is any in a class of vowel sound used in some spoken languages.
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Ordos City
Ordos, also known as Ih Ju, is one of the twelve major subdivisions of Inner Mongolia, China.
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Ordos Mongolian
Ordos Mongolian (also Urdus; Mongolian; Chinese 鄂尔多斯 È'ěrduōsī) is a variety of Central Mongolic spoken in the Ordos City region in Inner Mongolia and historically by Ordos Mongols. Mongolian language and Ordos Mongolian are agglutinative languages and central Mongolic languages.
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Owen Lattimore
Owen Lattimore (July 29, 1900 – May 31, 1989) was an American Orientalist and writer.
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Palatalization (phonetics)
In phonetics, palatalization or palatization is a way of pronouncing a consonant in which part of the tongue is moved close to the hard palate.
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Pannonian Avars
The Pannonian Avars were an alliance of several groups of Eurasian nomads of various origins.
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Para-Mongolic languages
Para-Mongolic is a proposed group of languages that is considered to be an extinct sister branch of the Mongolic languages.
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Parataxis
Parataxis (from παράταξις, "act of placing side by side"; from παρα, para "beside" + τάξις, táxis "arrangement") is a literary technique, in writing or speaking, that favors short, simple sentences, without conjunctions or with the use of coordinating, but not with subordinating conjunctions.
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Participle
In linguistics, a participle (abbr.) is a nonfinite verb form that has some of the characteristics and functions of both verbs and adjectives.
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Past tense
The past tense is a grammatical tense whose function is to place an action or situation in the past.
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Patronymic
A patronymic, or patronym, is a component of a personal name based on the given name of one's father, grandfather (more specifically an avonymic), or an earlier male ancestor.
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Perfect (grammar)
The perfect tense or aspect (abbreviated or) is a verb form that indicates that an action or circumstance occurred earlier than the time under consideration, often focusing attention on the resulting state rather than on the occurrence itself.
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Persian language
Persian, also known by its endonym Farsi (Fārsī|), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Mongolian language and Persian language are languages of Russia and subject–object–verb languages.
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Personal pronoun
Personal pronouns are pronouns that are associated primarily with a particular grammatical person – first person (as I), second person (as you), or third person (as he, she, it, they).
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Phoneme
In linguistics and specifically phonology, a phoneme is any set of similar phones (speech sounds) that is perceptually regarded by the speakers of a language as a single distinct unit, a single basic sound, which helps distinguish one word from another.
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Phonology
Phonology is the branch of linguistics that studies how languages systematically organize their phones or, for sign languages, their constituent parts of signs.
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Phonotactics
Phonotactics (from Ancient Greek "voice, sound" and "having to do with arranging") is a branch of phonology that deals with restrictions in a language on the permissible combinations of phonemes.
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Plain Blue Banner, Inner Mongolia
Plain Blue Banner (Mongolian), alternatively Zhenglan Banner in Chinese or Xulun Hoh Banner in Mongolian, is a banner of Inner Mongolia, China, bordering Hebei province to the south.
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Plosive
In phonetics, a plosive, also known as an occlusive or simply a stop, is a pulmonic consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases.
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Plural
The plural (sometimes abbreviated as pl., pl, or), in many languages, is one of the values of the grammatical category of number.
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Possessive
A possessive or ktetic form (abbreviated or; from possessivus; translit) is a word or grammatical construction indicating a relationship of possession in a broad sense.
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Predicate (grammar)
The term predicate is used in two ways in linguistics and its subfields.
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Prestige (sociolinguistics)
In sociolinguistics, prestige is the level of regard normally accorded a specific language or dialect within a speech community, relative to other languages or dialects.
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Productivity (linguistics)
In linguistics, productivity is the degree to which speakers of a language use a particular grammatical process, especially in word formation.
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Proto-Mongolic language
Proto-Mongolic is the hypothetical ancestor language of the modern Mongolic languages. Mongolian language and Proto-Mongolic language are agglutinative languages.
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Qing dynasty
The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history.
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Qinghai
Qinghai is an inland province in Northwestern China. It is the largest province of China (excluding autonomous regions) by area and has the third smallest population. Its capital and largest city is Xining. Qinghai borders Gansu on the northeast, Xinjiang on the northwest, Sichuan on the southeast and the Tibet Autonomous Region on the southwest.
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Qiqihar
Qiqihar is the second-largest city in the Heilongjiang province of China, in the west central part of the province.
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Reciprocal construction
A reciprocal construction (abbreviated) is a grammatical pattern in which each of the participants occupies both the role of agent and patient with respect to the other.
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Relative clause
A relative clause is a clause that modifies a noun or noun phrase and uses some grammatical device to indicate that one of the arguments in the relative clause refers to the noun or noun phrase.
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Resultative
In linguistics, a resultative (abbreviated) is a form that expresses that something or someone has undergone a change in state as the result of the completion of an event.
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Romanization
In linguistics, romanization is the conversion of text from a different writing system to the Roman (Latin) script, or a system for doing so.
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Routledge
Routledge is a British multinational publisher.
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Russia
Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.
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Russian Empire
The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.
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Russian language
Russian is an East Slavic language, spoken primarily in Russia. Mongolian language and Russian language are languages of Russia and languages written in Cyrillic script.
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Sanskrit
Sanskrit (attributively संस्कृत-,; nominally संस्कृतम्) is a classical language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European languages. Mongolian language and Sanskrit are subject–object–verb languages.
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Saturn
Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second-largest in the Solar System, after Jupiter.
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Sürengiin Möömöö
Sürengiin Möömöö (Сүрэнгийн Мөөмөө) was a Mongolian linguist and chess player.
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Secret History of the Mongols
The Secret History of the Mongols (Mongolian: Mongɣol‑un niɣuca tobciyan, Khalkha Mongolian) is the oldest surviving literary work in the Mongolian language.
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Sentence (linguistics)
In linguistics and grammar, a sentence is a linguistic expression, such as the English example "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." In traditional grammar, it is typically defined as a string of words that expresses a complete thought, or as a unit consisting of a subject and predicate.
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Sergei Starostin
Sergei Anatolyevich Starostin (Серге́й Анато́льевич Ста́ростин; March 24, 1953 – September 30, 2005) was a Russian historical linguist and philologist, perhaps best known for his reconstructions of hypothetical proto-languages, including his work on the controversial Altaic theory, the formulation of the Dené–Caucasian hypothesis, and the proposal of a Borean language of still earlier date.
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Singulative number
In linguistics, singulative number and collective number (abbreviated and) are terms used when the grammatical number for multiple items is the unmarked form of a noun, and the noun is specially marked to indicate a single item.
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Sino-Soviet split
The Sino-Soviet split was the gradual worsening of relations between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) during the Cold War.
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Sociolinguistics
Sociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the effect of any or all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, on language and the ways it is used.
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Soviet Union
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.
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Soyombo script
The Soyombo script is an abugida developed by the monk and scholar Zanabazar in 1686 to write Mongolian.
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Sprachbund
A sprachbund (Sprachbund, lit. "language federation"), also known as a linguistic area, area of linguistic convergence, or diffusion area, is a group of languages that share areal features resulting from geographical proximity and language contact.
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Standard Chinese
Standard Chinese is a modern standard form of Mandarin Chinese that was first codified during the republican era (1912‒1949).
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Standard language
A standard language (or standard variety, standard dialect, standardized dialect or simply standard) is a language variety that has undergone substantial codification of its grammar, lexicon, writing system, or other features and stands out among other varieties in a community as the one with the highest status or prestige.
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Stefan Georg
Ralf-Stefan Georg (November 7, 1962 in Bottrop) is a German linguist.
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Stochastic
Stochastic refers to the property of being well-described by a random probability distribution.
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Stress (linguistics)
In linguistics, and particularly phonology, stress or accent is the relative emphasis or prominence given to a certain syllable in a word or to a certain word in a phrase or sentence.
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Subject (grammar)
A subject is one of the two main parts of a sentence (the other being the predicate, which modifies the subject).
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Subject–object–verb word order
In linguistic typology, a subject–object–verb (SOV) language is one in which the subject, object, and verb of a sentence always or usually appear in that order. Mongolian language and subject–object–verb word order are subject–object–verb languages.
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Suffix
In linguistics, a suffix is an affix which is placed after the stem of a word.
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Syllabification
Syllabification or syllabication, also known as hyphenation, is the separation of a word into syllables, whether spoken, written or signed.
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Syllable
A syllable is a unit of organization for a sequence of speech sounds, typically made up of a syllable nucleus (most often a vowel) with optional initial and final margins (typically, consonants).
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Syllable weight
In linguistics, syllable weight is the concept that syllables pattern together according to the number and/or duration of segments in the rime.
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T'oung Pao
T'oung Pao, founded in 1890, is a Dutch journal and the oldest international journal of sinology.
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Tata-tonga
Tata-tonga (Тататунга, Mongolian script:, Tatatungүa) was a 13th-century Uyghur scribe captured by Genghis Khan from the Naimans.
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Tengyur
The Tengyur or Tanjur or Bstan-’gyur (Tibetan: "Translation of Teachings") is included in the Tibetan Buddhist canon, consisting of all of Buddha Shakyamuni's teachings, and is placed after the Kangyur.
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Terminology
Terminology is a group of specialized words and respective meanings in a particular field, and also the study of such terms and their use; the latter meaning is also known as terminology science.
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Tibet
Tibet (Böd), or Greater Tibet, is a region in the western part of East Asia, covering much of the Tibetan Plateau and spanning about.
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Tongliao
Tongliao is a prefecture-level city in eastern Inner Mongolia, People's Republic of China.
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Topic and comment
In linguistics, the topic, or theme, of a sentence is what is being talked about, and the comment (rheme or focus) is what is being said about the topic.
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Trill consonant
In phonetics, a trill is a consonantal sound produced by vibrations between the active articulator and passive articulator.
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Tungusic languages
The Tungusic languages (also known as Manchu–Tungus and Tungus) form a language family spoken in Eastern Siberia and Manchuria by Tungusic peoples. Mongolian language and Tungusic languages are agglutinative languages.
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Turkic languages
The Turkic languages are a language family of more than 35 documented languages, spoken by the Turkic peoples of Eurasia from Eastern Europe and Southern Europe to Central Asia, East Asia, North Asia (Siberia), and West Asia. Mongolian language and Turkic languages are agglutinative languages.
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Ulaanbaatar
Ulaanbaatar (Улаанбаатар,, "Red Hero"), previously anglicized as Ulan Bator, is the capital and most populous city of Mongolia.
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Ulanqab
Ulanqab or Ulan Chab (17pxUlaɣančab qota; Mongolian Cyrillic.Улаанцав хот) is a region administered as a prefecture-level city in south-central Inner Mongolia, China.
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Universal Declaration of Human Rights
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) is an international document adopted by the United Nations General Assembly that enshrines the rights and freedoms of all human beings.
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Uvular consonant
Uvulars are consonants articulated with the back of the tongue against or near the uvula, that is, further back in the mouth than velar consonants.
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Uyghur language
Uyghur or Uighur (ئۇيغۇر تىلى, Уйғур тили, Uyghur tili, Uyƣur tili, or ئۇيغۇرچە, Уйғурчә, Uyghurche, Uyƣurqə,, CTA: Uyğurçä; formerly known as Eastern Turki) is a Turkic language written in a Uyghur Perso-Arabic script with 8–13 million speakers, spoken primarily by the Uyghur people in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of Western China. Mongolian language and Uyghur language are agglutinative languages and subject–object–verb languages.
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Uzbek language
Uzbek (pronounced), formerly known as Turki, is a Karluk Turkic language spoken by Uzbeks. Mongolian language and Uzbek language are agglutinative languages, languages of Russia and languages written in Cyrillic script.
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Variety (linguistics)
In sociolinguistics, a variety, also known as a lect or an isolect, is a specific form of a language or language cluster.
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Velar consonant
Velars are consonants articulated with the back part of the tongue (the dorsum) against the soft palate, the back part of the roof of the mouth (also known as the "velum").
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Venus
Venus is the second planet from the Sun.
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Verb
A verb is a word (part of speech) that in syntax generally conveys an action (bring, read, walk, run, learn), an occurrence (happen, become), or a state of being (be, exist, stand).
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Voice (grammar)
In grammar, the voice (aka diathesis) of a verb describes the relationship between the action (or state) that the verb expresses and the participants identified by its arguments (subject, object, etc.). When the subject is the agent or doer of the action, the verb is in the active voice.
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Voiced dental and alveolar lateral fricatives
The voiced alveolar lateral fricative is a type of consonantal sound, used in some spoken languages.
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Vowel
A vowel is a syllabic speech sound pronounced without any stricture in the vocal tract.
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Vowel harmony
In phonology, vowel harmony is a phonological rule in which the vowels of a given domain – typically a phonological word – must share certain distinctive features (thus "in harmony").
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Vowel length
In linguistics, vowel length is the perceived length of a vowel sound: the corresponding physical measurement is duration.
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Wuhuan
The Wuhuan (Schuessler, Axel (2014) "Phonological Notes on Hàn Period Transcriptions of Foreign Names and Words" in Studies in Chinese and Sino-Tibetan Linguistics: Dialect, Phonology, Transcription and Text. Series: Language and Linguistics Monograph. Issue 53. p. 257 of 249-292) were a Proto-MongolicPulleyblank, Edwin G.
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Xianbei
The Xianbei were an ancient nomadic people that once resided in the eastern Eurasian steppes in what is today Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, and Northeastern China. Mongolian language and Xianbei are agglutinative languages.
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Xilingol League
Xilingol League (also transliterated as Xilin Gol or Shiliin Gol;; 40px, Шилийн Гол аймаг, Shiliin Gol aimag) is one of the 3 leagues of Inner Mongolia.
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Xinjiang
Xinjiang, officially the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China (PRC), located in the northwest of the country at the crossroads of Central Asia and East Asia.
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Yümjiriin Mönkh-Amgalan
Yümjiriin Mönkh-Amgalan (Юмжирийн Мөнх-Амгалан) (born 1956 in Bayanmönkh, Khentii) is a Professor of Linguistics at the National University of Mongolia.
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Yuan dynasty
The Yuan dynasty, officially the Great Yuan (Mongolian:, Yeke Yuwan Ulus, literally "Great Yuan State"), was a Mongol-led imperial dynasty of China and a successor state to the Mongol Empire after its ''de facto'' division.
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Zabaykalsky Krai
Zabaykalsky Krai (Transbaikal territory) is a federal subject of Russia (a krai), located in the Russian Far East.
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Zanabazar square script
Zanabazar's square script is a horizontal Mongolian square script (Hevtee Dörvöljin bichig or label), an abugida developed by the monk and scholar Zanabazar based on the Tibetan alphabet to write Mongolian.
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See also
Central Mongolic languages
- Alasha dialect
- Baarin Mongolian
- Buryat language
- Chakhar Mongolian
- Kalmyk Oirat
- Kalmyk language
- Khalkha Mongolian
- Khamnigan Mongol
- Khorchin Mongolian
- Mongolian language
- Oirat language
- Ordos Mongolian
- Sart Kalmyk language
Languages attested from the 13th century
- Franco-Italian
- Hindustani language
- Kashmiri language
- Mongolian language
- Old Swedish
- Rekhta
- Thai language
Languages of Mongolia
- Buryat language
- Darkhad dialect
- Dukhan language
- Japanese language education in Mongolia
- Kazakh language
- Khamnigan Mongol
- List of Mongolic languages
- Mongolian Sign Language
- Mongolian language
- Mongolic languages
- Oirat language
- Siberian Turkic languages
- Soyot language
- Tuvan language
Languages written in Cyrillic script
- Abaza language
- Abkhaz language
- Adyghe language
- Aghul language
- Aleut language
- Altai languages
- Alyutor language
- Archi language
- Avar language
- Bashkir language
- Belarusian language
- Bulgarian language
- Buryat language
- Chechen language
- Chuvash language
- Crimean Tatar language
- Dungan language
- Interslavic
- Karachay-Balkar
- Kazakh language
- Kyrgyz language
- Lingua Franca Nova
- Macedonian language
- Mongolian language
- Russian language
- Serbian language
- Serbo-Croatian
- Serbo-Croatian language
- Southern Altai language
- Tatar language
- Ukrainian language
- Uzbek language
References
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