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The Mongolian language is the official language of Mongolia and the best-known member of the Mongolic language family. The
number of speakers across all its dialects may be 5.2 million, including the vast majority of the residents of Mongolia and
many of the Mongolian residents of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region of China. In Mongolia, the Khalkha dialect, written
in Cyrillic (and at times in Latin for social networking), is predominant, while in Inner Mongolia, the language is more dialectally
diverse and is written in the traditional Mongolian script. In the discussion of grammar to follow, the variety of Mongolian
treated is Standard Khalkha Mongolian (i.e. , the standard written language as formalized in the writing conventions and in
the school grammar), but much of what is to be said is also valid for vernacular (spoken) Khalkha and other Mongolian dialects,
especially Chakhar. Mongolian has vowel harmony and a complex syllabic structure for a Mongolic language that allows clusters
of up to three consonants syllable-finally. It is a typical agglutinative language that relies on suffix chains in the verbal
and nominal domains. While there is a basic word order, subject–object–predicate, ordering among noun phrases is relatively
free, so grammatical roles are indicated by a system of about eight grammatical cases. There are five voices. Verbs are marked
for voice, aspect, tense, and epistemic modality/evidentiality. In sentence linking, a special role is played by converbs.
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 was slightly reformed,
and the verbal system was restructured. |
Names (more)[en] Halh Mongolian |
Language type : Living
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