Middle Mongolian language
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Middle Mongolian | ||
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Spoken in: | Mongolia, China, Russia | |
Total speakers: | extinct | |
Language family: | Altaic[1] Mongolic Middle Mongolian |
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Language codes | ||
ISO 639-1: | none | |
ISO 639-2: | – | |
ISO 639-3: | xng | |
Note: This page may contain IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. |
Middle Mongolian is an extinct Mongolic language formerly spoken in Mongolia, China, and Russia. It is the ancestor of many Modern Mongolian dialects, spoken in the 13th to 14th centuries. [2]
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- ^ The existence of the Altaic family is controversial. See Altaic languages.
- ^ Linguist List entry for Middle Mongolian