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E (Mongolic)
E is a letter of related and vertically oriented alphabets used to write Mongolic and Tungusic languages. Mongolian language * Transcribes Chakhar ; Khalkha , , , and . Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter . * Medial and final forms may be distinguished from those of other ''tooth''-shaped letters through: vowel harmony (') and its effect on the shape of a word's consonants (' and '), or position in syllable sequence (', ', '). * The final tail extends to the left after '' bow''-shaped consonants (such as ', ', ', and '), and to the right in all other cases. * = an Old Mongolian initial form, as in ' 'this' (otherwise written ). * Derived from Old Uyghur ''aleph'' (). * Produced with using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout. * In the Mongolian Unicode block, ' comes after ' and before '. Ee * Stands in for ' in loanwords, such as in ' (Khalkha: ). Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter . * Indistinguishable from ', except when inferred by its ... [...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] |
