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Buryat shaman wearing a toli hanging from his neck; Olkhon Island, Russia. Toli help ward off harmful or attacking spirits in their own right, and also can be thought of as an object which signifies the shaman's authority or role. [1] [7] [4] Among the Daur, the number of toli collected by a Daur shaman was an indicator of their level of power. [8]
The name "Tolui" (Mongolian script: ᠲᠤᠯᠤᠢ, Mongolian: Толуй, meaning 'mirror') has also been transliterated to English as Toli and Tuluy, among other spellings. [6] The historian Isenbike Togan has speculated that "Tolui" was a title which Genghis intended to replace the pre-imperial epithet otchigin , traditionally given to the ...
In the Mongolian Unicode block, ɣ/g comes after q/k and before m. May turn silent between vowels, and merge these into a long vowel or diphthong. [ 2 ] : 36–37 For more details on this, see Mongolian script multigraphs .
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Damdinsürengiin Altangerel [a] (1945 – 1998) was a Mongolian teacher and writer. He lived in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar, and taught English at the Mongolian University of Science and Technology. Altangerel was the author of several English-Mongolian dictionaries, and published a collection of Mongolian folktales translated into ...
Modern Mongolian evolved from Middle Mongol, the language spoken in the Mongol Empire of the 13th and 14th centuries. In the transition, a major shift in the vowel-harmony paradigm occurred, long vowels developed, the case system changed slightly, and the verbal system was restructured. Mongolian is related to the extinct Khitan language.
[13]: 39 Additionally used in native and modern Mongolian ᠰᠦ᠋ ? sü 'milk' (Classical Mongolian ᠰᠦ ? sü or ᠰᠦᠨ sün). [ 6 ] : 741, 744 [ 13 ] : 39 The syllable-initial medial form ᠦ᠋ is also used in non-initial syllables in proper name compounds, [ 13 ] : 44 as well as in loanwords.
The Mongol Messenger (in English) (Ulaanbaatar) Mongolia This Week (in English) Mongoliin Ünen (Монголын үнэн) (of the Mongolian People's Party) - Mongolian Truth [1] Niigmiin Toli (Нийгмийн толь) (Ulaanbaatar/national) - Society's Brief; UB Post (in English) (Ulaanbaatar) [1]