noun
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a branch or subfamily of the Altaic family of languages, including Mongolian, Kalmuck, and Buryat
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another word for Mongoloid
Etymology
Origin of Mongolic
Example Sentences
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They spoke languages unrelated to Chinese, such as Turkic or Mongolic, but a few such as the Jie may have even spoken Indo- European tongues.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
While much of their history is still debated, these various tribes of the steppes provided the origins for a great number of Turkic, Iranian, Mongolic, Uralic, Tibeto-Burman, and multiethnic peoples today.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
For more than 100 years, linguists have debated when, where, and how a group of languages spoken today across central and eastern Asia, including those in the Japanese, Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic, and Turkic families, emerged.
From Science Magazine • Nov. 10, 2021
Nay, they consider Tatar as a term of abuse, synonymous with robber, evidently from a recollection that their ancestors had once been conquered and enslaved by Mongolic, that is, Tataric, tribes.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max
Next to Tungusic, the Mongolic is the poorest language of the Turanian family, and the scantiness of grammatical terminations accounts for the fact that, as a language, it has remained very much unchanged.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max
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