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Within Mongolian proper, they then draw a distinction between Khalkha on the one hand and the Mongolian language in Inner Mongolia (containing everything else) on the other hand. A less common subdivision of Central Mongolic is to divide it into a Central dialect (Khalkha, Chakhar, Ordos), an Eastern dialect (Kharchin, Khorchin), a Western ...
However, Proto-Mongolian seems to descend from a common ancestor to languages like Khitan, which are sister languages of Mongolian languages (they do not descend from Proto-Mongolian but are sister languages from an even older language from the first millennium AD, i.e. Para-Mongolian). [3] [4] The Mongolic language family has about 6 million ...
Mongolian is the official national language of Mongolia, where it is spoken (but not always written) by nearly 3.6 million people (2014 estimate), [16] and the official provincial language (both spoken and written forms) of Inner Mongolia, where there are at least 4.1 million ethnic Mongols. [17]
Classical Mongolian was formerly used in Mongolia, China, and Russia. It is a standardized written language used in the 18th century and 20th centuries. [3] Classical Mongolian sometimes refers to any language documents in Mongolian script that are neither Pre-classical (i.e. Middle Mongol in the Mongolian script) nor modern Mongolian. [4]
The term "Middle Mongol" is problematic insofar as there is no body of texts that is commonly called "Old Mongol". [16] While a revision of this terminology for the early period of Mongolian has been attempted, [17] the lack of a thorough and linguistically-based periodization of Mongolian up to now has constituted a problem for any such ...
Examples of Buriad usage in Aginskoie public space. Buryat or Buriat, [1] [2] [note 1] known in foreign sources as the Bargu-Buryat dialect of Mongolian, and in pre-1956 Soviet sources as Buryat-Mongolian, [note 2] [4] 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.
History of the Mongolian language (1 C, 2 P) I. Mongolian inscriptions (2 P) M. Mongolian given names (1 C, 16 P) Mongolian words and phrases (1 C, 6 P) P.
Mongolian language (11 C, 13 P) Mongolic languages (4 C, 48 P) S. Siberian Turkic languages (1 C, 18 P) Pages in category "Languages of Mongolia"