Friday, July 24, 2009

Language is the part of culture

Language that we use everyday is the tool of our communications. I can't imagine interactions of people without any language. We can categorize languages by spoken and written, by regions and countries (nations) and etc. But today I wanted to write more about Mongolian language which is indispensable part of our culture.
Mongolian is a Mongolic language. Other languages in the Mongolic family include Khamnigan and Dagur, spoken in China's Qinghai and Gansu regions; and the probably extinct Moghol of Afghanistan. Oirat (including the Kalmyk dialect) and Buryat – both spoken in Russia, Mongolia and China – are considered by some scholars to be major dialects of Mongolian, and by others as Mongolic languages in their own right. Ordos, spoken around Inner Mongolia's Ordos city, is regarded by most scholars as a dialect of Mongolian; a few consider it an independent language. The Altaic theory proposes that the Mongolic family is a member of a larger Altaic languages that would also include the Turkic, Tungusic and Japonaic language and Korean.
Mongolian language is considered the one of the most difficult language especially by its pronounciation. Modern mongolian alphabets were imitated from Russian alphabet which is called Cyrillic. Mongolian has been written in a variety of alphabets. The traditional Mongolian tradrional script was adapted from Uyghur script probably at the very beginning of the 13th century and from that time underwent some minor disambiguations and supplementations. Between 1930 and 1932, a short-lived attempt was made to introduce the Latin script in the Mongolian state, and after a preparatory phase, the Cyrillic script was declared as mandatory by government decree. From 1991 to 1994, an attempt was made to reintroduce the traditional alphabet which failed due to popular resistance. In informal contexts of electronic text production, the use of Latin is common as well.



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