Serbi–Mongolic is a proposed group of languages that includes the Mongolic languages as well as the Para-Mongolic languages, a proposed extinct sister branch of the Mongolic languages.

Names

''Serbi'' (*serbi) is Shimunek's reconstruction for the historical ethnonym

Xianbei The Xianbei (; ) were an ancient nomadic people that once resided in the eastern Eurasian steppes in what is today Mongolia, Inner Mongolia, and Northeastern China. The Xianbei were likely not of a single ethnicity, but rather a multiling ...

( 鮮卑). In '' Glottolog'' 4.4, the languages are referred to as ''Mongolic–Khitan''.

Languages

Below is a preliminary classification of the Serbi–Mongolic languages in Shimunek (2017:35): *Serbi–Mongolic ** Mongolic ***Central Mongolic languages ****Eastern Central Mongolic ***** Khalkha Mongolian ***** Khorchin Mongolian ***** Chakhar Mongolian **** Oirat ***** Kalmyk **** Ordos Mongolian ***Southern Mongolic languages **** Shirongolic ***** Mongour ***** Dongxiang ***** Bonan ***** Santa ***** Kangjia **** Shira Yugur *** Daur *** Moghol **Serbi–Awar (= Juha Janhunen's "

Para-Mongolic Para-Mongolic is a proposed group of languages that is considered to be an extinct sister branch of the Mongolic languages. Para-Mongolic contains certain historically attested extinct languages, among them Khitan language, Khitan and Tuyuhun lang ...

") *** Awar (Avar) ( Wuhuan 烏桓 or Wuwan 烏丸) *** Old Serbi (Common Serbi) ****Ch’i-fu/ Qifu 乞伏 (northern Early Middle Chinese/NEMC *kʰɨrbuwk) ****Tuan/ Duan 段 (NEMC *dɔr̃) **** Tabghach **** Tuyuhun/T’u-yü-hun (Mu-jung/ Murong 慕容) ****Kitanic (Yü-wen/ Yuwen 宇文) *****Old Kitan ***** Qay 奚 (NEMC *ɣay) ***** Shirwi proper 室韋 (*širwi/*širβi < *serbi 鮮卑 '

Sound changes

Phonological innovations from Common Serbi–Mongolic (i.e., Proto-Serbi–Mongolic) to Proto-Mongolic and Proto-Serbi are (Shimunek 2017:415):

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