Mongolian

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M0385900 (mŏng-gō′lē-ən, -gōl′yən, mŏn-)adj.1. Of or relating to Mongolia, the Mongols, or their language or culture.2. also mongolian Offensive Of or relating to Down syndrome.n.1. A native or inhabitant of Mongolia.2. A member of the Mongol people.3. a. Any of the various spoken and written dialects and languages of the Mongols living in Mongolia and China. Also called Mongol.b. See Mongolic.4. Anthropology A member of the Mongoloid racial classification. No longer in scientific use.

Mongolian

(mɒŋˈɡəʊlɪən) adj1. (Placename) of or relating to Mongolia, its people, or their language2. (Peoples) of or relating to Mongolia, its people, or their language3. (Languages) of or relating to Mongolia, its people, or their languagen4. (Peoples) a native of Mongolia5. (Languages) the language of Mongolia. See Khalkha

Mon•go•li•an

(mɒŋˈgoʊ li ən, mɒn-)

n. 1. a native or inhabitant of the Mongolian People's Republic or Inner Mongolia. 2. Mongol (def. 1b). 3. a. a family of closely related languages spoken by the historical Mongols and their descendants. b. a language of this family spoken by most of the ethnic Mongolians of the Mongolian People's Republic and Inner Mongolia. 4. Mongoloid (def. 3). adj. 5. of or pertaining to Mongolia or its inhabitants. 6. of or pertaining to the Mongols or their languages. 7. Mongoloid (def. 1). [1730–40]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Mongolian - a member of the nomadic peoples of MongoliaMongolOriental, oriental person - a member of an Oriental race; the term is regarded as offensive by Asians (especially by Asian Americans)Mongol Tatar, Tatar, Tartar - a member of the Mongolian people of central Asia who invaded Russia in the 13th centuryKalka, Khalka, Khalkha - the Mongol people living in the central and eastern parts of Outer Mongolia
	2.	Mongolian - a family of Altaic language spoken in MongoliaMongolic, Mongolic languageAltaic language, Altaic - a group of related languages spoken in Asia and southeastern EuropeKalka, Khalka, Khalkha - the language of the Khalkha that is the official language of the Mongolian People's Republic
Adj.	1.	Mongolian - of or relating to the modern Mongolian People's Republic; "the Mongolian embassy"
	2.	Mongolian - of or relating to the region of Mongolia or its people or their languages or cultures; "the Mongol invaders"; "a Mongolian pony"; "Mongolian syntax strongly resembles Korean syntax"Mongol

Translations

蒙古人蒙古的蒙古语蒙语

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→ 蒙古人zhCN, 蒙古的zhCN, 蒙古语zhCN

Mongolian

the language of Mongolia: see Khalkha

Mongolian

the language of the Mongols, the predominant population of the Mongolian People’s Republic and Inner Mongolia, and of groups living in various provinces of the People’s Republic of China. Mongolian belongs to the Mongolian language group and is spoken by approximately 3 million persons (1970, estimate). It evolved between the 14th and 16th centuries.

Mongolian is divided into dialects. The Khalkha dialect has both sibilant and hushing consonants. Dialects having only hushing consonants (without the phonemes dz and ts) include Chakhar (Chahar), Kharchin, Tumet, and Ordos. Mongolian is an agglutinative language in which the subject occurs before the predicate, and the attribute precedes the dependent member. The language has no grammatical gender, and there is no agreement of the attribute with the dependent member or of the predicate with the subject in number and case. It also lacks personal-predicative particles, thereby differing from other Mongolian languages and the Turkic languages. Mongolian has seven cases and personal and impersonal possession, the particles of which occur after the case endings. Verbs have five voices and 21 conjugated forms. Participial and adverbial-participial constructions replace subordinate clauses, and the accusative case is used to form the subject of such constructions.

In the phonetic system the phonemes k, p, and f occur only in recent borrowings, and b and v are variants of the same phoneme in native Mongolian words. Voiced consonants are devoiced at the end of a syllable, and l and r almost never occur at the beginning of a word. Many consonants have palatalized variants, for example, khaliuun (“otter”) and khaluun (“hot”). Vowels are subject to the laws of vowel harmony and may be phonemically short or long, for example, kharakh (“to look”) and khaarakh (“to be closed”) or der (“head of the bed”) and deer (“above”). The Mongolian language began to evolve as a national language, based on the Khalkha dialect, after the Mongolian People’s Revolution of 1921.

REFERENCES

Todaeva, B. Kh. Grammatika sovremennogo mongol’skogo iazyka: Fonetika i morfologiia. Moscow, 1951.
Sanzheev, G. D. Sovremennyi mongol’skii iazyk, 2nd ed. Moscow, 1960.
Sanzheev, G. D. Staropis’mennyi mongol’skii iazyk. Moscow, 1964.
Mongol’sko-russkii slovar’ Edited by A. Luvsandendev. Moscow, 1957.
Damdinsuren, Ts., and A. Luvsandendev. Oros-mongol tol’ vols. 1–2. Ulan Bator, 1967–69.
Rinchen, B. Mongol bichgiin khelnii zui, parts 1–2. Ulan Bator, 1964–66.
Tsevel, la. Mongol khelnii tovch tailbar tol’ Ulan Bator, 1966.
Luvsanvandan, Sh. Orchin tsagiin mongol khelnii butets, parts 1–2. Ulan Bator, 1967–68.
Street, J. Khalkha Structure. The Hague, 1963.
Lessing, F. Mongolian-English Dictionary. Berkeley-Los Angeles, 1960.

G. D. SANZHEEV

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noun a member of the nomadic peoples of Mongolia

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noun a family of Altaic language spoken in Mongolia

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adj of or relating to the region of Mongolia or its people or their languages or cultures

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