Social:Serbi–Mongolic languages
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Short description: Proposed language family including Mongolic and Para-Mongolic
| Serbi–Mongolic | |
|---|---|
| Xianbei–Mongolic Mongolic–Khitan | |
| (tentative) | |
| Geographic distribution | Mongolia, northern China, Lake Baikal region |
| Linguistic classification | proposed language family |
| Subdivisions |
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| Glottolog | mong1349[1] |
Serbi–Mongolic, or Mongolic–Khitan, is a proposed group of languages that includes the Mongolic languages as well as the Para-Mongolic languages, a proposed extinct sister branch of the Mongolic languages.[2]
Names
Serbi (*serbi) is Shimunek's reconstruction for the historical ethnonym Xianbei (鮮卑).[2]
In Glottolog 4.4, the languages are referred to as Mongolic–Khitan.[3]
Languages
Below is a preliminary classification of the Serbi–Mongolic languages in Shimunek (2017:35):[2]
- Serbi–Mongolic
- Mongolic[4][5]
- Central Mongolic languages
- Eastern Central Mongolic
- Oirat
- Kalmyk
- Ordos Mongolian
- Southern Mongolic languages
- Shirongolic
- Shira Yugur
- Daur
- Moghol
- Central Mongolic languages
- Serbi–Awar (= Juha Janhunen's "Para-Mongolic"[6])
- Awar (Avar) (Wuhuan 烏桓 or Wuwan 烏丸)
- Old Serbi (Common Serbi)
- Mongolic[4][5]
Sound changes
Phonological innovations from Common Serbi–Mongolic (i.e., Proto-Serbi–Mongolic) to Proto-Mongolic and Proto-Serbi are (Shimunek 2017:415):[2]
| Proto-Mongolic innovations | Proto-Serbi innovations |
|---|---|
| *p > *h | *ɔ > *a / _C[dorsal] |
| *#ñ > *#n | *ze > *ži |
| *Vñ# > *Vi# | *se > *ši |
| *z > *s | *VbV > *Vw(V) |
| *wə > *ə | *wə > *ɔ |
See also
References
- ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Mongolic–Khitan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/mong1349.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Shimunek, Andrew (2017). Languages of Ancient Southern Mongolia and North China: a Historical-Comparative Study of the Serbi or Xianbei Branch of the Serbi-Mongolic Language Family, with an Analysis of Northeastern Frontier Chinese and Old Tibetan Phonology. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-10855-3. OCLC 993110372.
- ↑ Mongolic-Khitan. Glottolog 4.4. Accessed 2021-09-29.
- ↑ Janhunen (2006:232–233)
- ↑ Nugteren (2011)
- ↑ Janhunen, Juha (2003a). "Proto-Mongolic". in Janhunen, Juha. The Mongolic languages. Routledge. ISBN 9780700711338. https://archive.org/details/mongoliclanguage00janh.
Sources
- Janhunen, Juha (2006). "Mongolic languages". in Brown, K.. The encyclopedia of language & linguistics. Amsterdam: Elsevier. pp. 231–234.
- Nugteren, Hans (2011). Mongolic Phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu Languages (Ph.D. thesis). Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke – LOT.
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