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9 unusual facts about Mongolian language


Francis Woodman Cleaves

After the war, Cleaves also began teaching Mongolian and passing along the traditions of European sinology of his mentors.

Jaroslav Vacek

Jaroslav Vacek (born 26 June 1943) is director of the Institute of South and Central Asia and former dean of the Philosophical Faculty at the Charles University in Prague, where he founded the teaching and research of Mongolian as a new subject.

Julius Oppert

In 1855, he published Écriture Anarienne, advancing the theory that the language spoken originally in Assyria was Turanian (related to Turkish and Mongolian), rather than Aryan or Semitic in origin, and that its speakers had invented the cuneiform writing system.

Leonid Yuzefovich

Yuzefovich's books have been translated and issued in French, German, Italian, Mongolian, Polish, and Spanish languages.

Nathan Rogers

He has since added a stomp box to his shows to provide rhythm and regularly features Mongolian and Tuvan throat singing.

Nohai

The Nohai means dog in Mongolian language.

Ramendra Kumar

Ramen's work has been published and reviewed in major newspapers and magazines and translated into several Indian languages as well as Chinese, Japanese, Mongolian, Sinhala, French, Portuguese and Spanish.

Tarchia

Named for its massive skull (Mongolian tarkhi meaning 'brain' and Latin ia), Tarchia currently includes only the type species, T. gigantea.

Thunder Force VI

As seen in the two trailers released thus far, the development team created a unique feel for the game, by using the tangut script, an ancient and now obsolete Chinese logographic system, for themes relating to the Galaxy Federation, with Mongolian terms used as language for the Orn Empire.


Anandyn Amar

Amar (literally meaning "peace/peaceful" in the Mongolian language) was born in 1886 in present-day Khangal district of Bulgan Province (then called Daichin Van Khoshuu in Tüsheet Khan Province) in north-central Mongolia.

András Róna-Tas

In 1957, he earned his dr.univ degree, in 1964 he defended his candidates (CSc) degree, and finally in 1971 he earned a doctorate from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (DSc) with his thesis "The Theory of Linguistic Affinity and the Linguistic Relations between the Chuvash and Mongol Languages", published as Linguistic Affinity in 1978.

Erdenechimeg Luvsannorov

Dr. Erdenechimeg has written 15 musicological and ethno-musicological books in Mongolian, several of which are also published in Chinese, Russian and English.

Tibbetibaba

Among the foreign languages known by him were: English, Mandarin, Tibetan, Russian, Mongolian, Burmese.

Touman

The name Touman (*Tumen) is likely related to Middle Chinese *muan, West Tokharian t(u)māne, Old Turkic/Mongolian tümen, Modern Persian tumân, all meaning '10,000', a myriad).

Voice of Mongolia

It broadcasts a total of 8 hours a day in 5 languages: Mongolian, English, Chinese, Russian and Japanese.


see also

Mongolian alphabets

Subjects from the Middle East hired into administrative functions would also often use Persian or Arabic scripts to write their Mongolian language documents.

Namkhai Norbu

In 1960 he came to Italy at the invitation of Professor Giuseppe Tucci, and served as Professor of Tibetan and Mongolian Language and Literature from 1964 to 1992 at the Naples Eastern University.