Questions tagged [mongolian]
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Is the origin of the Mongolian script fully established?
I have read various theories about the origins of the Mongolian script, which I believe is known as the Hudum Mongol Bichig. Some claim it is ultimately descended from Sogdian runes(which means its ...
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was old Mongolic similar to old Turkic
if Tungusic and Mongolic similarity is just because of adoption, are Mongolic and Turkic related (from one root). But Mongolian changed later and changed much more after Tungusic adoption.
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Can Tungusic and Mongolic be a language family that has same root
https://drive.google.com/file/d/16qyiuz4-rFJl0W1BHbFxA2Ujv9Qp7Key/view?usp=share_link Mongolic language family book pdf
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From which language was the Finnish word for "language" derived?
I have noticed that several "Altaic" languages have similar words for "language," but I do not know whether this is a coincidence, or due to historical language contact.
The word "kieli" in Finnish ...
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Is "Qadaqan" Mongolian or Turkish? [closed]
In Persian, the word Qadaqan (q is an uvular stop consonant, i.e. having the same place of articulation as the French r) means "emphasis" and "illegal", in some Persian dictionaries it is mentioned as ...
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Does anyone knows a work on Mongolian loanwords in Turkic languages?
Especially in Western branch of Turkic languages.
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What is the Mongolian vowel separator for?
I've heard of the Mongolian vowel separator from programmers, who regard it as an interesting quirk in Unicode. When I google for it, most of the hits are from those revelling in its geekiness.
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Might Mongolian "хэл" and Proto-Finnic "*keeli" be related?
I was just listening to some Mongolian and it struck me that the word for "language", хэл, is quite similar to the Estonian word for "language", keel.
I know it's not accepted that these languages ...
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Translations into Mongolian and Icelandic [closed]
I wish to translate into Mongolian the sentence "I have no home", and into Icelandic the sentence "However, I have the road".
I tried Google Translate, but couldn't fully trust the results.
I can't ...
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Etymology of "ნარიყალა" and "Нарын-Кала": Mongolian? Turkic?
There are ancient ruins of fortresses in Tbilisi and Derbent which share a name.
In Tbilisi there is ნარიყალა Nariqala and in Derbent there is Нарын-Кала Naryn-Kala.
The story of the name ნარიყალა ...
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Are Mongolian "хан" and "хаан" the same word despite the usually important difference in vowel length?
I've just noticed that if you look in several English and Mongolian dictionaries that the Cyrillic Mongolian word "khan" is given as either "хан" with a short vowel, or "хаан" with a long vowel.
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Is Mongolian "шинэ" / "ᠰᠢᠨᠠ", meaning "new", a borrowing of Chinese "新"?
I've noticed that the Mongolian word for "new" is "шинэ" (or in traditional script, "ᠰᠢᠨᠠ"). Since final vowels are not pronouned it's spoken as "shin".
The Han character for "new", "新" is also ...
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Could Turkish "küçük" and Mongolian "жижиг" be related?
I'm in Mongolia trying to learn some Mongolian and I've come across their cute word for "litlle", "small": жижиг.
On previous trips through Turkey I recall learning a similar cute word for "little", "...
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What's a simple example of how Mongolian is radically dependent-marking?
In Johanna Nichols' book Linguistic Diversity in Space and Time, I came across the passage on page 146, where she asserts that Japanese, Mongolian, Dyirbal, and Yawelmani are all radically dependent-...
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