Reflexes of Proto-Mongolian Vowels in South Mongolian Languages
https://doi.org/10.15514/ISPRAS-2023-35(6)-21
Abstract
The Mongolian languages are a language family that includes several closely related languages of Mongolia, China, Russia and Afghanistan. According to lexicostatistics, they broke up around the 5th century AD. Dagur, Shira-Yugur, Dongxiang, Bao'an, Tu (Monguor) are commonly referred to as South Mongolian languages. The South Mongolian languages, in comparison with other groups of Mongolian languages, were influenced by Chinese and Turkic languages, various historical events had an undoubted influence on them.
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Supporting agencies: The reported study was funded by Russian Science Foundation, project no. 22-78-10152 ‘Corpus of Old Kalmyk Clear Script Texts on the Lingvodoc Linguistic Platform: New Approaches to the Digitization of Written Heritage’.
About the Author
Zayana Igorevna CHUSHKAEVA
Kalmyk Scientific Centre of Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Junior researcher at the Department of Linguistics of the Kalmyk Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Research interests: linguistics, study of languages, their structure, origin, history, functioning and laws of development.
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For citations:
CHUSHKAEVA Z.I. Reflexes of Proto-Mongolian Vowels in South Mongolian Languages. Proceedings of the Institute for System Programming of the RAS (Proceedings of ISP RAS). 2023;35(6):331-336. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.15514/ISPRAS-2023-35(6)-21
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