Mongolic
Let an agent explain the Mongolic language family and its members, describe features, scripts and status, support learners and researchers, and describe classification debates with attribution.
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Purpose and description
Let an agent explain the Mongolic language family and its members, describe features, scripts and status, support learners and researchers, and describe classification debates with attribution.
A language family of Central and Inner Asia comprising Mongolian and its dialects and relatives, including Khalkha Mongolian, the official language of Mongolia, Inner Mongolian varieties, Buryat, Kalmyk and Oirat, Khamnigan Mongol, the Shirongolic languages of the Gansu and Qinghai region, Dagur and the endangered Moghol of Afghanistan, with Middle Mongolian as the attested medieval stage; Mongolic languages are agglutinative with vowel harmony and are written in Cyrillic, the traditional Mongolian script and other scripts.
What it is for: The Mongolic language family.
It can be explain the family and members; describe features and scripts; support learners; describe classification debates.
Distinguishing features
Central Asian family
Middle Mongolian attestation
Multiple scripts
Endangered members
What it looks like
Not physical; spoken and written languages.
How it is recognised
Family including Mongolian, Buryat, Kalmyk and others
Agglutinative with vowel harmony
Turkic and Tungusic are separate families with debated relations
Related models
is a kind of - category
is related to - speakers of a Mongolic language
is related to - a neighbouring language in China
is related to - another language entry with vowel harmony
In practice
Families and kinds
Central Mongolic including Khalkha and Inner Mongolian
Buryat and Khamnigan Mongol
Oirat and Kalmyk
Shirongolic and Dagur
Moghol and other peripheral languages
Standards and regulation
Language laws of Mongolia and regional policies in China and Russia
Script standards for Cyrillic and traditional Mongolian
Language endangerment assessments
Failure modes and hazards
Presenting the Altaic hypothesis as settled
Confusing Mongolian with the family
Outdated speaker figures
Also called
Where this came from
wikidata · CC0 1.0
Drafted structure
Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.
Understand What Mongolic is.
Linguistics.
Family
Family and members.
Family
Family.
- Which languages belong to the Mongolic family, and how are they classified into branches? provenance
- Is the family or the Mongolian language meant? boundary
Relations
External relations.
Relations
Relations.
- How do linguists assess proposed relations with Turkic and Tungusic, with positions attributed? provenance
- Which entry fits the Altaic debate? action
Features Features and scripts.
Language.
Grammar
Grammar and phonology.
Grammar
Grammar.
- What are the shared features of Mongolic languages, such as agglutination, cases and vowel harmony? definition
- Which entry fits Mongolian grammar? action
Scripts
Scripts.
Scripts
Scripts.
- Which scripts are used for Mongolic languages, and how has script policy changed? provenance
- Which entry fits the Mongolian script? action
Use Status and learning.
Practice.
Status
Status and endangerment.
Status
Status.
- What is the status of each Mongolic language, and which are endangered, according to assessments? provenance
- Which entry fits a specific language? action
Learn
For learners.
Learn
Learning.
- How can Mongolian or another Mongolic language be learned, and which resources exist? action
- Which language and script is meant? boundary
History History and study.
Education.
History
History.
History
History.
- How did the family develop from Middle Mongolian, and what do the earliest texts reveal? provenance
- Which references are standard? provenance
Teach
Teaching.
Teach
Teaching.
- How can Mongolic languages be taught and researched? action
- Which misconceptions arise? provenance
What the second pass must settle
- Should each language be a separate entry?
- How should linguistic databases be linked?
- How should endangerment data be linked?