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The Mongolic languages are a group of languages spoken in East-Central Asia, mostly in Mongolia and surrounding areas plus in Kalmykia. The best-known member of this language family, Mongolian, is the primary language of most of the residents of Mongolia and the Mongolian residents of Inner Mongolia, China with an estimated 5.7+ million speakers. The closest relative of the Mongolic languages appears to be the extinct language Khitan.〔 Some linguists have grouped Mongolic with Turkic, Tungusic, and possibly Koreanic and Japonic as part of a larger Altaic family,〔e.g. ; contra e.g. 〕 but this has been widely disputed. ==Classification== Historical Mongolic: * Middle Mongol (depending on classification spoken from the 13th century until the early 15th century or late 16th century—given the almost entire lack of written sources for the period in-between, an exact cut-off point cannot be established) * Classical Mongolian, from approximately 1700 to 1900 Contemporary Mongolic: * Daur (=Dagur) (ca. 100,000 speakers) * Central Mongolic * * Khamnigan (c. 2,000 speakers) * * Buryat (dialects: Bargu, Khori, Aga, Ekhirit, Unga, Nizhne-Udinsk, Barguzin, Tunka, Oka, Alar, Bohaan, Bulagat) (c. 300,000 speakers) * * Mongolian proper (including Khalkha basically in Mongolia and Chakhar, Khorchin, Kharchin, Baarin, Shilingol in Inner Mongolia) (ca. 5–6 m. speakers) * * Ordos (ca. 100,000 speakers) * * Oirat (varieties: Torgut, Dörbet, Olot (Ööld, Elyut, Eleuth), Zakhchin, Mingat, Bayad, Kalmyk Oirat, Khoshut (Khoshuud), Alasha) (c. 300,000 speakers) * Southern Mongolic (part of a Gansu–Qinghai Sprachbund) * * Eastern Yugur (Shira Yugur) (c. 3,000 speakers) * * Shirongolic * * * Monguor (also known as Tu; dialects: Mongghul (Huzhu), Mangghuer (Minhe)) (ca. 100,000+30,000 speakers) * * * Bonan (ca. 10,000 speakers), Santa (Dongxiang) (ca. 600,000 speakers), Kangjia * Moghol (=Mogholi) (unclear whether there are speakers left) The classification and speaker numbers above follow Janhunen (2006) except for Southern Mongolic which follows Nugteren (2011). In another classificational approach,〔e.g. Sečenbaγatur et al. (2005:193–194)〕 there is a tendency to call Central Mongolian a language consisting of Mongolian proper, Oirat and Buryat, while Ordos (and implicitly also Khamnigan) is seen as a variety of Mongolian proper. Within Mongolian proper, they then draw a distinction between Khalkha on the one hand and Southern Mongolian (containing everything else) on the other hand. A less common subdivision of Central Mongolian is to divide it into a Central dialect (Khalkha, Chakhar, Ordos), an Eastern dialect (Kharchin, Khorchin), a Western dialect (Oirat, Kalmyk), and a Northern dialect (consisting of two Buryat varieties).〔 quoted from Sečenbaγatur et al. (2005:167–168)〕 The broader delimitation of Mongolian may be based on mutual intelligibility, but an analysis based on a tree diagram such as the one above faces other problems due to the close contacts between e.g. Buryat and Khalkha Mongols during history thus creating or preserving a dialect continuum. Another problem lies in the sheer comparability of terminology as Western linguists use ''language'' and ''dialect'', while Mongolian linguists use the Grimmian trichotomy ''language'' (kele), ''dialect'' (nutuγ-un ayalγu) and ''Mundart'' (aman ayalγu). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mongolic languages」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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