The Phonology of Mongolian

Download or read book The Phonology of Mongolian written by Jan-Olof Svantesson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-02-10 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides (a) the first comprehensive description of the phonology and phonetics of Standard Mongolian, known as the Halh (Khalkha) dialect and spoken in Ulaanbaatar, the capital of the Republic of Mongolia; and (b) the first account in any language of the historical phonology of the Mongolian group of languages. The synchronic phonology is based on data collected by the authors and on their own phonological analyses. The historical phonology is based on their research on the Halh, on published Chinese and Mongolian sources for the modern Mongolic languages, and on their reconstruction of Old Mongolian from the medieval written sources.