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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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
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
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
With the Chukchi, the Koryaks, the Kamchadales, and the Gilyaks they form a separate branch of the Mongolic division sometimes grouped together as "Hyperboreans," but distinguished from other Ural-Altaic peoples perhaps strictly on linguistic grounds.
From Man, Past and Present by Haddon, Alfred Court
Witsen, too, in a letter to Leibniz, dated Mai 22, 1698, alludes to the affinity between the Tataric and Mongolic languages.
From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max
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