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  Mongolian Branch of the Altaic Language Family
Languages of the World is brought to you by the National Virtual Translation Center.
Mongolian Halh is spoken by over 2.3 million people in the Mongolian People's Republic where it has the status of a national language.
Mongolian is considered to be a Category II language in terms of difficulty for native speakers of English.
www.nvtc.gov /lotw/months/march/MongolBranch.html   (952 words)

  
  Mongolian language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mongolian is the best-known member of the Mongolic language family, and the primary language of most of the residents of Mongolia.
Related languages include Kalmyk spoken near the Caspian Sea and Buryat of East Siberia, as well as a number of minor languages in China and the Mogholi language of Afghanistan.
Svantesson, Jan-Olof, Anna Tsendia, Anastasia Karlsson, Vivan Franzén (2005): The Phonology of Mongolian.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mongolian_language   (2310 words)

  
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Mongolian is the language of most of the population of Mongolia and also of Inner Mongolia and of separate groups living in several other provinces and regions of China and the Russian Federation.
By origin, it is one of the languages of the Mongolian group of the Altaic family.
The Modern Mongolian language, as the national language, was developed on the basis of the Halh dialect.
www.indiana.edu /~mongsoc/mong/language.htm   (1204 words)

  
 OHCHR: Mongolian (Khalkha) - Universal Declaration of Human Rights   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Mongolian belongs to the Mongolian branch of the Altaic family of languages.
Standard Mongolian is often referred to as "Khalkha" to distinguish it from a number of related languages and dialects.
The original Mongolian alphabet was adapted from that of the Uyghurs in the 13th century.
www.unhchr.ch /udhr/lang/khk.htm   (192 words)

  
 Mongols - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
According to Mongolian historical records, Mongols are distinct from the Han Chinese ethnicity.
However, the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, for reasons both practical and philosophical, enacted an often brutal if not entirely effective sweeping aside Mongolian tradition, working against the Buddhist religions, clan-ism, and script, and for collectivism (as opposed to the traditional nomadic lifestyle).
However, Inner Mongolians are exempt from the government's one-child policy, and the PRC officially promotes the Mongol language.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mongols   (4459 words)

  
 Learn Mongolian Language - Free Conversational Mongolian Lessons Online - Common Mongolian Words and Phrases   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Phrasebase drastically simplifies the language learning process by prioritizing the various components of learning and focusing your study efforts on the areas of greatest importance.
The key is to immerse yourself in the language and use it as often as possible in order to build up your skills of speaking it and listening to it, understanding and comprehending it...
Mongolian Language Exchange Pen-Pals - Community of people from around the world interested in teaching you their language and sharing their culture with you.
www.phrasebase.com /learn/mongolian.php   (1866 words)

  
 Mongolian Translation Services - Translators English/Mongolian
Mongolian is the best-known member of the Mongolic language family which is a group of languages spoken in Central Asia.
It is the primary language spoken in Mongolia.
Languages that are related to Mongolian include Buryat of East Siberia, Kalmyk spoken in the Caspian Sea region as well as a number of smaller languages in the Moghol of Afghanistan and China.
www.greentranslations.com /mongolian-translation.html   (248 words)

  
 Period Mongolian Names
Mongolian itself is a separate language of Turkic origin, and shares many of the same words as Turkic or Turkish.
Middle Mongolian was characterized by the replacing of the intervolic consonant before the long vowel with something similar to a glottal stop and the retention of the vocalized "h".
The language used to write Mongolian in period is an 11th or 13th century dialect that kept the intervolic "g" of Ancient and Middle Mongolian, but dropped the vocalized "h" proceeding opening vowels.
www.s-gabriel.org /names/baras-aghur/mongolian.html   (2320 words)

  
 Mongolian Language Project
Mongolians set up their gers so that they face south; this way the north blowing wind passes over the ger without entering the ger.
Mongolian experience with wind is especially illustrated by their incredible ability to build a fire when the wind is whipping around them.
The Mongolians have a special kind of music known commonly as throat singing, or overtone singing, which is the main style of singing for folk music.
www.macalester.edu /anthropology/MongolianLanguageProject13.html   (915 words)

  
 Everything about Mongolian Language   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Mongolian (Монгол), is the best-known member of the Mongolic language family, and the primary language of most of the residents of Mongolia.
One should be careful about the underlying classification principle for groups of languages which have apparently a geographical name: besides areal linguistic units, the taxa of the genetic classification (language families) are often given names which themselves or parts of which refer to geographical areas.
Chinese was the official language, though periods of Mongol and Manchu conquest saw the arrival of Mongol and Manchu as alternate official languages.
wikimiki.org /en/Mongolian+language   (11283 words)

  
 Mongolian Minority - Chinese Nationalities
The Mongolian Hordes of Genghis Khan and his successors swept as far as Vienna in the 14th century.
The Mongolians are found in Gansu, Qinghai Provinces and the Xinjiang and Nei Mongol Autonomous Regions.
Their language is somewhat similar to that of the Mongolians of North China.
www.paulnoll.com /China/Minorities/min-Mongolian.html   (227 words)

  
 Learn Mongolian, informations about mongolian language, Mongolia communication
Mongolian languages belongs to Altaic family of languages showing structural (and also lexical) similarities with languages of the Tungusic group of this family (e.g.
Mongolian has strong vowel harmony: all vowels within one word and even all grammatical particles must be chosen from one of two vowel sets which are known as male and female or back and front vowels.
Similar to the historical orthography of English, Classical Mongolian as it is used today contains a lot of phonological archaisms and historical features which make it sometimes not perfectly easy to learn but which offer valuable insight for linguists and provide enough of dialect neutrality for modern-day speakers from most Mongolian language areas.
www.voyagemongolie.com /Index_fichiers/Learn_mongolian_language.htm   (851 words)

  
 The Mongolian Language & Scripts - Amazing Mongolian Journeys
The Mongolian language is a member of the Ural-Altaic family of languages which includes Finnish, Hungarian, Korean, Japanese, Turkish, Kazakh and many others.
The Modern Mongolian language, as the national language, was developed on the basis of the Khalkh dialect.
The Mongolian script is originated from the Sogdian letters and was adopted in the 12th century, although it has undergone transformations and occasionally been supplanted by other scripts.
www.narantours.com /monlanguage.htm   (340 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Mongolian languages (Language And Linguistics) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Mongolian languages, group of languages forming a subdivision of the Altaic subfamily of the Ural-Altaic family of languages (see Uralic and Altaic languages).
The Mongolian languages are spoken by about 6 million people, mainly in the Republic of Mongolia, in the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region of China, and in the region of Lake Baykal in Siberia.
The Mongolian languages fall into two principal divisions: Western Mongolian, to which Kalmyck belongs, and Eastern Mongolian, which includes Buryat, Khalkha, and others.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/M/Monglang.html   (361 words)

  
 Mongolian Language
Mongolian is in the Altaic language family, and is most closely related to Turkish.
The Mongolian Cyrillic has 35 characters, two more than the Russian alphabet.
If you really want to see what the language looks like you can look at the contact me section on the main page.
www.rahul.net /dold/monglang.htm   (226 words)

  
 Edge Translation
Mongolian is a member of the Mongolic language family.
The Mongolian alphabet was used until 1931 when it was replaced by the Latin alphabet.
Cyrillic still remains the most common script used in Mongolian although the traditional alphabet is slowly being reintroduced in the public school system.
www.edgetranslation.net /mongolian1.htm   (179 words)

  
 How to read and write Mongolian characters
Hoe kun je Mongoolse teksten maken, lezen of leesbaar maken ?
The age of the written language (of the script) is mentioned in: the history of writing.
Kijk eventueel eerst naar het plaatje, dat reeds gedraaid is.
www.xs4all.nl /~wjsn/mongolian.htm   (516 words)

  
 Mongolian language and writing. Mongolia.
It originated from the ancient Mongolian dialect, and now includes the languages of north Mongolia or vowel harmony, such as central Mongolian, Buryat, Kalmyk, Afghanistan Mogol and the languages of south Mongolia or languages without rules of vowel harmony, such as Daguur, Dunsyan (Santo), Monger and Bayaoni.
The development of Mongolian literary language is divided into three stages, The early stage started in unknown times before the 5th century CE (CE - the Common Era).
Mongolian alphabet consists of 14 basics, which represent 5 vowels and 22 consonants.
www.legendtour.ru /eng/mongolia/language_and_writing.shtml   (526 words)

  
 Mongolian - Wiktionary
The Mongolian variety inhabits eastern Asia, Finland, and Lapland in Europe, and includes the Esquimaux of North America.
A group of Altaic languages from Mongolia, specifically Khalkha, the official language of Mongolia.
Extreme forms like the Australians, Negroes, Mongolians, and Europeans may be described as races because each has certain characteristics which set them off from other groups, and which are strictly hereditary.
en.wiktionary.org /wiki/Mongolian   (792 words)

  
 The Mongolian Language
It is difficult to track the origin of Mongolian, as it did not have a writing system till 13th century due to Mongolian nomadic culture.
Mongolian has probably more vowels compared to many other languages, making it extremely difficult for some foreigners to distinguish between different sounds.
The longest Palindrome in Mongolian is “hadgalagdah” in romanisation, meaning “to be conserved, to be kept”.
www.kwintessential.co.uk /language/about/mongolian.html   (915 words)

  
 Mongolian language - OLPC
The Mongolian alphabet was used in Mongolia until 1931, when it was replaced by the Latin alphabet, and again by Cyrillic in 1937.
In the People's Republic of China, the Mongolian language is a co-official language with Mandarin Chinese in some regions.
There are two types of written Mongolian used in China: the classical script, which is official among Mongols nationwide, and the Todo script, used predominantly among Oirats in Xinjiang.
wiki.laptop.org /go/Mongolian   (174 words)

  
 Center for East Asian Studies Location
Mongolian and Mongolian scripts are taught only by special arrangement.
This course is designed to introduce beginning Mongolian language students to the basic features of the Mongolian language and script.
Mongolian 217s is a continuation of Mongolian 217r and is designed to introduce beginning Mongolian language students to basic features of the Mongolian language.
www.ac.wwu.edu /~eas/mongolian.html   (1004 words)

  
 UCLA Language Materials Project Language Profiles Page
The standard language is based on the speech of the Khori Buriats, the most numerous and culturally prominent group who inhabit the Transbaikalia region east of Lake Baikal, in the eastern half of the Buryatia republic.
The Bargu-Buriat dialect is strongly influenced by the surrounding Mongolian dialects spoken in northwestern China.
As is typical of Mongolian languages, all vowels in a given native word agree with respect to the feature [backness].
www.lmp.ucla.edu /Profile.aspx?LangID=190&menu=004   (1201 words)

  
 Language and Culture Program Mongolia: Global Crossroad offer Volunteer in Mongolia, Volunteering Mongolia, Mongolia ...
This program is uniquely designed to provide you with intensive language training and cultural orientation, which offer glimpses into Mongolia’s languages, cultures, customs, religions, and history, and arm you for the challenges you may face in this untamed land.
The focus of the first week of the program will be on learning Mongolian, but it will also provide you with an introduction to Mongolian customs and culture, as well as a delightful sightseeing tour of the country’s capital, Ulaanbaatar.
After dinner, the Mongolian National Ensemble will present an ethnic music and dance show, providing a riveting way for our volunteers to continue their immersion into the timeless customs of the Mongolian people.
www.globalcrossroad.com /mongolia/culturelanguage.php   (576 words)

  
 mongolia.neweurasia.net » Mongol Bichig: Could Mongolia Ever Bring Back its Traditional Script?
Since the traditional Mongolian script evolved a very long time ago, the language is completely different, just as its name implies, the traditional Mongolian language.
While most Mongolians don’t like to admit this, almost all Mongolian linguists state that Inner Mongolians speak an older and more pure form of the Mongolian language because they still use Mongol bichig (overlooking the influence of the Chinese accents).
However the language does use different letters for writing foreign words, which is a very good system and one easy part of the language.
mongolia.neweurasia.net /?p=22   (1669 words)

  
 Mongolian alphabets, pronunciation and language
Mongolian is an Altaic language spoken by approximately 5 million people in Mongolia, China, Afghanistan and Russia.
Other languages considered part of the Mongolian language family, but separate from Mongolian, include Buryat and Kalmyk, spoken in Russia and Moghul or Mogul, spoken in Afghanistan.
Between the 13th and 15th Centuries, Mongolian was also written with Chinese characters, the Arabic alphabet and a script derived from Tibetan called Phags-pa.
www.omniglot.com /writing/mongolian.htm   (512 words)

  
 MONGOLIAN LANGUAGE TOOLS - Programs
Mongolian Keyboard Driver (Mon1251) [Size: 165 Kb] Mondrive is a small programm to install mongolian keyboard layout for win-1251.
You have to use mongolian old fonts, which are not unicode supported and using single byte encoding.
Mongolian keyboard driver for (linux) Xwindows[Size: 14,9 Kb] This is the standard driver for mongolian on linux under xWindow system.
badaa.mngl.net /pros.php?p=offline   (441 words)

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