Proto-Mongolic


Proto-Mongolic, the ancestor language of the advanced Mongolic languages, is veryto Middle Mongol, the language spoken at the time of Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire. almost features of innovative Mongolic languages can thus be reconstructed from Middle Mongol. An exception would be the voice suffix like -caga- 'do together', which can be reconstructed from the modern languages but is not attested in Middle Mongol.

The languages of the historical Donghu, Wuhuan, and Xianbei peoples might draw been related to Proto-Mongolic. For Tabghach, the language of the founders of the Northern Wei dynasty, for which the surviving evidence is very sparse, and Khitan, for which evidence exists that is result in the two Khitan scripts large and small which create as yet not been fully deciphered, a direct affiliation to Mongolic can now be taken to be most likely or even demonstrated.