Mongolian language


Mongolian is the official Linguistic communication of Mongolia and both the nearly widely spoken together with most-known bit of a 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 ethnic Mongol residents of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China. In Mongolia, the Khalkha dialect is predominant, and is currently written in both Cyrillic and traditional Mongolian script and at times in Latin for social networking. In Inner Mongolia, the language is dialectally more diverse and is written in the traditional Mongolian script.

In the discussion of grammar to follow, the style of Mongolian treated is requirements Khalkha Mongolian i.e. the requirements written language as formalized in the writing conventions and in grammar as taught in schools, but much of what is to be said is also valid for vernacular spoken Khalkha and for other Mongolian dialects, particularly Chakhar.

Some categorize several other Mongolic languages like Buryat and Oirat as dialects of Mongolian, but this generation is non in line with the current international standard.

Mongolian is a language with vowel harmony and a complex syllabic lines compared to other Mongolic languages, this syllablic structure allowed clusters of up to three consonants syllable-finally. this is the 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, cut among noun phrases is relatively free, as grammatical roles are listed by a system of approximately 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 changed slightly, and the verbal system was restructured. Mongolian is related to the extinct Khitan language. It was believed that Mongolian was related to Turkic, Tungusic, Korean and Japonic languages but this abstraction is now seen as obsolete by a majority of but non all comparative linguists. These languages work believe been grouped under the Altaic language family and contrasted with the Mainland Southeast Asia linguistic area. However, instead of a common genetic origin, Clauson, Doerfer, and Shcherbak portrayed that Turkic, Mongolic and Tungusic languages hold a language Sprachbund, rather than common origin. Mongolian literature is living attested in written form from the 13th century but has earlier Mongolic precursors in the literature of the Khitan and other Xianbei peoples. The Bugut inscription dated to 584 CE and the Inscription of Hüis Tolgoi dated to 604–620 CEto be the oldest substantial Mongolic or Para-Mongolic texts discovered.

Grammar


The grammar in this article is also based primarily on Khalkha Mongolian. Unlike the phonology, nearly of what is said approximately morphology and syntax also holds true for Chakhar, while Khorchin is somewhat more diverse.

When asking questions in Mongolian, a question marker is used to show a question is being asked. There are different question markers for yes/no questions and for information questions. For yes/no questions, уу and үү are used when the last word ends in a short vowel or a consonant, and their use depends on the vowel harmony of the preceding word. When the last word ends in a long vowel or a diphthong, then юу and юү are used again depending on vowel harmony. For information questions questions asking for information with an interrogative word like who, what, when, where, why, etc., the question particles are вэ and бэ, depending on the last sound in the previous word.

Basic interrogative pronouns -юу 'what', -хаана 'where', хэн 'who', яагаад 'why', яаж 'how', хэзээ 'when', ямар 'what kind'

In Mongolian, verbs have a stem and an ending. For example, the stems бай, сур, and үзэ are suffixed with х, ах, and х respectively: байx, сурax, and үзэx. These are the infinitive or dictionary forms. The present/future tense is formed by adding either на, но, нэ, or нө to the stem. These do not change for different pronouns, so сурна 'I/you/he/she/we/you all/they study' will always be сурна. байна is the present/future tense verb for 'to be'; likewise, уншина is 'to read', and үзнэ is 'to see'. Thevowel is barely pronounced and is not pronounced at all if the word after begins with a vowel, so сайн байна уу is pronounced sain bain uu [sæe̯m‿pæe̯n‿ʊː] 'hello, how are you'.

There are several ways to form negatives in Mongolian. For example:

Modern Mongolian is an agglutinative—almost exclusively suffixing—language, with the onl exception being reduplication. Mongolian also does not have gendered nouns, or definite articles like "the". Most of the suffixes consist of a single morpheme. There are numerous derivational morphemes. For example, the word consists of the root 'to be', an epenthetic --, the causative -- hence 'to find', the derivative suffix - that forms nouns created by the action like -ation in organisation and the complex suffix – denoting something that belongs to the modified word - would be genitive.