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Just a presentation for an English class, and I'm not a native English speaker. Then, don't blame my English :D
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by Dashzeveg Barbayar
0911127
LANGUAGE SYSTEMIN MONGOLIA
LANGUAGES IN MONGOLIA• Mongolian(Official)
• spoken by 95% of the population
• 2 major dialects(Oirat, Buryat)
• Kazakh
• spoken by 4% of the population
• Tuvan
• Turkic
SCRIPTS IN MONGOLIA• Mongolian Cyrillic(Official)
• a modified Cyrillic script
• has 35 letters
• Uyghurjin(Official)
• written vertically
• has 26 major letters
• has 9 minor letters(used for loanwords)
• used for legal documents and calligraphy
• Uyghurjin script is a compulsory subject
MONGOLIAN CALLIGRAPHY
SOME FACTS• Native speakers
• about 5.7 million
• Region
• All of Mongolia(≈50%)
• Inner Mongolia; parts of Liaoning, Jilin, and Heilongjiang provinces in China
• Republic of Buryatia and Republic of Kalmykia of Russia
• Others
PHONOLOGY• Vowels
• 7 major and 6 minor vowels
• Consonants
• 20 consonants
• Yers
• hard sign
• soft sign
English consonants
Mongolian consonants
SYNTAX• Phrase structure
• noun phrase
• demonstrative pronoun/numeral + adjective + noun
• verbal phrase
• predicate + complements + modal particles
• Complex sentences
• very similar to Japanese
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION