The Mongolic LanguagesJuha Janhunen Once the rulers of the largest land empire that has ever existed on earth, the historical Mongols of Chinggis Khan left a linguistic heritage which today survives in the form of more than a dozen different languages, collectively termed Mongolic. For general linguistic theory, the Mongolic languages offer interesting insights to problems of areal typology and structural change. An understanding of the Mongolic language family is also a prerequisite for the study of Mongolian and Central Eurasian history and culture. This volume is the first comprehensive treatment of the Mongolic languages in English, written by an international team of specialists. |
Contents
CHAPTER ONE PROTOMONGOLIC | 1 |
CHAPTER TWO WRITTEN MONGOL | 30 |
CHAPTER THREE MIDDLE MONGOL | 57 |
CHAPTER FOUR KHAMNIGAN MONGOL | 83 |
CHAPTER FIVE BURYAT | 102 |
CHAPTER SIX DAGUR | 129 |
CHAPTER SEVEN KHALKHA | 154 |
CHAPTER EIGHT MONGOLDIALECTS | 177 |
CHAPTER TWELVE MOGHOL | 248 |
CHAPTER THIRTEEN SHIRAYUGHUR | 265 |
CHAPTER FOURTEEN MONGGHUL | 286 |
CHAPTER FIFTEEN MANGGHUER | 307 |
CHAPTER SIXTEEN BONAN | 325 |
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN SANTA | 346 |
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN INTRAMONGOLICTAXONOMY | 364 |
CHAPTER NINETEEN PARAMONGOLIC | 391 |
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Common terms and phrases
attested basic Bonan borrowings Buryat Chinese Chingeltei clause Common Mongolic Common Turkic consonant stems conv Dagur dative derivative deverbal diachronic durative e.g. SH expressed finite forms function futuritive participle Gansu Gansu-Qinghai complex genitive imperative imperfective converb indicative initial Inner Mongolia innovations instr interrogative Kalmuck Khalkha Khamnigan Mongol Khitan labial lexical linguistic loanwords long vowels Mangghuer medial Middle Mongol Modern Mongolic languages Moghol Mongghul Mongol proper Mongolian Mongolic languages Monguor morphological nasal negation negative nominal non-initial syllables nouns numerals obstruent Oirat Ordos original orthographical palatal palatalized consonants Para-Mongolic paradigm participle particle perf perfective participle personal endings personal pronouns phonemes phonological plural possessive suffixes postpositions Pre-Proto-Mongolic predicate pronominal Proto-Mongolic Qinghai refl reflexive Santa script segments sequences Shira Yughur speakers Spoken Oirat stems ending synchronically TABLE tense third person Tibetan Turkic languages variants velar verbal verbs vowel harmony words Written Mongol Written Oirat yazyk