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Na (Mongolic)
Na is a letter of related and vertically oriented alphabets used to write Mongolic languages, Mongolic and Tungusic languages, Tungusic languages. Mongolian language * Transcribes Chakhar Mongolian#Phonology, Chakhar ; Mongolian language#Phonology, Khalkha , and . Transliterated into Cyrillic with the letter . * Distinction from other ''Mongolian script#Components, tooth''-shaped letters by position in syllable sequence. * Dotted before a vowel (attached or separated); undotted before a consonant (syllable-final) or a Whitespace character, whitespace. Final dotted ' is also found in modern Mongolian words. A dotted pre-consonantal variant can be used to clarify the spelling of ' in words of foreign origin. * Derived from Old Uyghur alphabet, Old Uyghur ''nun (letter), nun'' (). * Produced with using the Windows Mongolian keyboard layout. * In the Mongolian (Unicode block), Mongolian Unicode block, ' comes after ' and before '. Clear Script Xibe language Manchu ... [...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] |
