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Mongolic language - a family of Altaic language spoken in Mongolia

Altaic language, Altaic - a group of related languages spoken in Asia and southeastern Europe

Kalka, Khalka, Khalkha - the language of the Khalkha that is the official language of the Mongolian People's Republic

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Others have wanted to see a link between Mongolian sirkeg "fiber, thread" and Manchu sirge "silk thread, silk floss." It is probable that the Manchu form is a loan from some Mongolic language. Phonologically both forms look good; however, it is difficult to see how a Mongolic form, through the medium of a Shianbei or Uhwan word, could have been the basis of Seres and serikon.

Inner Asian words for paper and silk

Many minorities maintain oral traditions of significant history and size, including the Dongxiang, whose Mongolic language has 500,000 speakers, and Hani, a Tibeto-Burman language whose oral tradition tells of an ancient orthography that was lost over the course of their migration to Yunnan.

Chinese cinema in the new century: prospects and problems

We argue, to the contrary, that the presence of reduplication in Oroqen is the result of borrowing, most likely from a Mongolic language. Inter alia, the highly restrictive nature of the reduplication in Oroqen, its failure to adhere to Oroqen phonotactics, and the distribution of reduplication in other Tungusic and Mongolic languages are offered as evidence to support this position.

Emphatic reduplication in Oroqen and its Altaic context(*)

Because the "Altaic" divergence and convergence theories have been thoroughly disproven on scientific grounds, Shimunek does not discuss them in detail, and finds that most of the other hypotheses on the origin of the Mongolic languages are methodologically flawed, the exceptions being the Ancient Mongol Theory and the Para-Mongolic Theory.

Languages of Ancient Southern Mongolia and North China: A Historical-Comparative Study of the Serbi or Xianbei Branch of the Serbi-Mongolic Language Family, with an Analysis of Northeastern Frontier Chinese and Old Tibetan Phonology