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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784324003321

Titolo

The Mongolic languages / / edited by Juha Janhunen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

1-135-79689-0

1-135-79690-4

1-280-30855-9

9786610308552

0-203-98791-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (464 p.)

Collana

Routledge language family series ; ; 5

Classificazione

18.83

Altri autori (Persone)

JanhunenJuha <1952->

Disciplina

494/.2

Soggetti

Mongolian languages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; SERIES TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS; TABLES; CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; CHART OF ROMANIZATION; CHAPTER ONE PROTO-MONGOLIC; CHAPTER TWO WRITTEN MONGOL; CHAPTER THREE MIDDLE MONGOL; CHAPTER FOUR KHAMNIGAN MONGOL; CHAPTER FIVE BURYAT; CHAPTER SIX DAGUR; CHAPTER SEVEN KHALKHA; CHAPTER EIGHT MONGOLDIALECTS; CHAPTER NINE ORDOS; CHAPTER TEN OIRAT; CHAPTER ELEVEN KALMUCK; CHAPTER TWELVE MOGHOL; CHAPTER THIRTEEN SHIRAYUGHUR; CHAPTER FOURTEEN MONGGHUL; CHAPTER FIFTEEN MANGGHUER; CHAPTER SIXTEEN BONAN; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN SANTA

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN INTRA-MONGOLICTAXONOMYCHAPTER NINETEEN PARA-MONGOLIC; CHAPTER TWENTY TURKO-MONGOLICRELATIONS; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Once the rulers of the largest land empire that has ever existed on earth, the historical Mongols of Chinggis Khan left a linguistic heritage which today survives in the form of more than a dozen different languages, collectively termed Mongolic. For general linguistic theory, the Mongolic languages offer interesting insights to problems of areal typology and structural change. An understanding of the Mongolic



language family is also a prerequisite for the study of Mongolian and Central Eurasian history and culture. This volume is the first comprehensive treatment of the Mongolic languages in