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Da (Mongolic)
Da is a letter of related and vertically oriented alphabets used to write Mongolic and Tungusic languages. Mongolian language , - ! style="min-width: 1.75em" , ! style="min-width: 1.75em" , , ! style="min-width: 1.75em" , , ! style="text-align: left" , Transliteration , - , rowspan="2" , , — , ! style="text-align: left" , Whole , - , , ! style="text-align: left" , Initial * Transcribes Chakhar ; Khalkha , and . Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter . * Syllable-initially indistinguishable from '. When it must be distinguished from ' medially, it can be written twice, and with both medial forms (as in ' 'well', compared with ' 'holy'). Alternatively, a dot is sometimes used to the right of the letter in 19th and 20th century manuscripts. * The '' belly-tooth''-shaped form is used before consonants (syllable-final), the other before vowels. * Derived from Old Uyghur '' taw'' (; initial, ''belly-tooth''-shaped medial, and final) and ''lamedh Lamedh or ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mongolic Languages
The Mongolic languages are a language family spoken by the Mongolic peoples in North Asia, East Asia, Central Asia, and Eastern Europe mostly in Mongolia and surrounding areas and in Kalmykia and Buryatia. The best-known member of this language family, Mongolian, is the primary language of most of the residents of Mongolia and the Mongol residents of Inner Mongolia, with an estimated 5.7+ million speakers. History The possible precursor to Mongolic is the Xianbei language, heavily influenced by the Proto-Turkic (later, the Lir-Turkic) language. The stages of historical Mongolic are: * Pre-Proto-Mongolic, from approximately the 4th century AD until the 12th century AD, influenced by Shaz-Turkic. * Proto-Mongolic, from approximately the 13th century, spoken around the time of Chinggis Khan. * Middle Mongol, from the 13th century until the early 15th century or late 16th century, depending on classification spoken. (Given the almost entire lack of written sources for th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
