I am using “h” here just to differentiate it from /x/. The next one is the final /s/ sound. The problem, though, is that languages usually don’t share all of the same sounds. Chakhar, however, never represents the most archaic pronunciation unless it’s either identical to Khalkha or Khorchin-Kharchin because Chakhar always stays in the middle of Khalkha and Khorchin-Kharchin. A very good introduction to the Mongolian traditional script can be found at "Writing Mongol in Uighur Script" by Luigi Kapaj. We will also analyze some grammar rules, and finally practice how to ask for direction in Mongolian. ,audioWidth:200,audioHeight:30
Hello! In Altai language the Sanskrit loanword Rasiyan is not pronounced [ɑrʃɑːn] but pronounced [ɑrʒɑːn]. When you get the official translation you want, though you can try out different fonts by using the Chimee app to write it. This one is /ts/. (but I don’t have a Word program for this purpose). Can anybody tell me how it would be “go everywhere” in traditional mongolian? let's learn how to hand-write them ! I think your suggestions are good and I will take your advice. үүлÑÑ
(Cyrillic) 'to show'. Good question about consonant combinations. There is little incentive for most people to become familiar with Inner Mongolian language since Mongolians are not very interested in and generally dismissive of Inner Mongolia (to which they have an attitude ranging from hostility to ‘not cool’). While the traditional script offers plenty of challenges, hopefully this page has laid down some useful ground rules in mastering it. Here is the first of the letters that is normally considered a foreign letter, the letter for the /f/ sound. Letters for Foreign Words. Take the word France, for example. I learned it via Mandarin and learned the traditional script. Thanks for posting my comment and I saw the grammar section you added, thanks so much! I am only on lesson 3 now but I am finding that you are adding more and more to each lesson. The second, sixth, and seventh vowels are called feminine vowels. You will notice that a number of letters are written the same. As you can see from the nearly empty chart /ɬ/ isn’t used very much. “Mongolian to Impress” is a powerful language tool to learn Mongolian that gives you a head start in real, conversational Mongolian. Single Vowels Exactly I have a question. For spelling, it is unfortunate that there is no standard. There are eight cases, with suffixes being added to a stem to convey the relevant case. The interesting characteristic about /s/ is that whenever you have /s/ and /i/ together, it is pronounced /ʃi/. Mongolian is challenging, not unsurmountable. To me sometimes the final Mongolian /d/ sounds more like a /t/, but then, I’m used to the American English “d” with it’s long vowel sound in front. Notice the difference in the final Mongolian /r/ from the final English “r” (of America or Britain). Mongolian (in Mongolian script: ᠮᠣᠩᠭᠣᠯ ᠬᠡᠯᠡ Moŋɣol kele; in Mongolian Cyrillic: монгол хэл, mongol khel) is the official language of Mongolia and both the most widely-spoken and best-known member of the Mongolic language family. (I don’t know that particular word myself, so without looking it up in a dictionary I can’t tell you which of the two it is.). ,features: ['playpause','current','progress','duration','volume','tracks','fullscreen']
Could conceivably be read as, No indication of vowel harmony. In initial position only, there is a distinction between vowels 1 and 2 (, The following letters are noticeable for the way they are joined to the following vowel in a ligature, which can be confusing for learners. That means lots of listening and reading to things that are not too difficult in the beginning stages. I haven’t seen past lesson 1 yet but may I suggest a second section for grammar if you feel it is necessary, because I read often Mongolian has complex grammar like polite verb endings and noun cases and variations in verb suffixes and endings. Many students now learn at least the basics, though the spelling can be a challenge. It is worth your time to memorize this order because this is the order dictionaries arrange words in. For now here is a sample from a recent printing of the Secret History of the Mongols: How have you been? So will there be new lessons after lesson 10? The Mongolian language (in Mongolian script: Monggol kele, Mongol kele; in Mongolian Cyrillic: , Mongol khel) is the official language of Mongolia and the best-known member of the Mongolic language family. Printing, on the other hand, does look different, although if you know the handwritten forms you can probably make out the letters ok. Mongolians have used a number of writing scripts including Tibetan Sanskrit and Traditional Mongolian Script. The Mongolian final /l/ is definitely different than the English final “l”. From grammar, listening tools and even an exam, this website covers it all! Mongolia was a strong ally and a major trading partner of the USSR so it made sense to make the change. Is this an ok translation? It was based on the Tibetan script… I am mostly interested in the Middle Mongolian pronunciation. In this lesson the Mongolian Cyrillic … I really want to study Mongolian and understand this hard language. I was reviewing the Mongolian script and when listening to the first dipthong chart it sounded like there were only 6 dipthongs read aloud rather than all 7. As in the word ховичиин? Here in Inner Mongolia, though, the traditional script is the standard. The labels are the Chinese pinyin, not the phonetic alphabet.
The pronunciation is still the same. Knowing whether it is masculine or feminine, though, can give us a clue. Maybe there is a rule or a simple way to distinguish these two syllables? However, had there be any loan word from Sanskrit, Tibetan, Chinese, English, Russian, or Todo Mongolian, this transliteration method fails. Derived from the Old Uyghur alphabet, Mongolian is a true alphabet, with separate letters for consonants and vowels. Consonants with -a- and consonants with this strange -e- are written in the same way. To to the pronunciation page to hear these new vowel sounds. Recently traditional Mongolian script has been starting to gain more popularity in usage in Mongolia today. We are using the IPA symbol /l/ to denote this sound but it is different than the English “l”. The Mongolian script has been adapted to write languages such as Oirat and Manchu. They are written exactly the same (except in some foreign words). Hello there, sorry I just saw your reply. It is used to substitute for a “v” from languages like English. Tungaamal is a voice-activated Mongolian script dictionary that uses Mongolian speech recognition technology "Chimege" to recognize your speech. There is somewhat more influence in the other direction (from Mongolia to Inner Mongolia), but in many ways they are quite simply two different countries. Letters are written a little differently according to whether they appear at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end of a word. Below we will learn the basic letters of the traditional Mongolian alphabet. Could you please write Би ЭЗЭНийх in Traditional script? It seems like the best would be to pick one of these courses on Memrise. Learn Mongolian Online with our Experienced Native Tutors through Skype to find friendship and love or to travel and experience the exquisite culture or to teach Mongolian to your children! I agree that the Cyrillic would be much easier to learn and use. However, always keep in mind that a dialect that is archaic on some factors will be corrupted in some other factors. Haha. I think so because it is a common word in turkish also, bahadır. Could theoretically be read, Breaking it into three syllables seems right, but how is it read? jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
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The alphabet created by Tatar-Tonga is now known as the Uighur/Uyghur Script, the classical or traditional Mongol Script, the Old Script, or Mongol Bichig in Mongolian.The traditional Monogolian script was not ideal for writing the Mong… For example, the “u” of Aurora should maybe have a long “tooth” to follow the foreign word spelling rule. The /r/ sound is different than the English “r”. Conversational Mongolian is the best place to start. I have lessons recorded up through lesson 19 currently but I have not made the time to put them online yet. The pronunciation here is a little contrived, anyway, because it is out of context. });
Although you can’t tell here, in many words it sounds more like the flap or trilled “r” of Spanish. Oh okay! The next five are called hard cushion letters. When you pronounce it “quickly” as you suggested it does not become [frɑːnʦ]. If it is it would certainly be possible to learn but might be very useful to have plenty of extra explanation for the grammar, right? Thanks for the tips! Something like a graded reader that starts at zero would be nice. I’ve heard it proudly said, other languages are lying down but Mongolian is standing up. Recently I have been spending my spare time working on an Android phone app to send messages in traditional Mongolian. This is the version of /ə/ used to write foreign words. If you count the little “teeth” carefully, though, you will find that there is an extra one. We’ve studied all of the letters and sounds! We read from top to bottom and from left to right. Is it possible to convert the beautiful book COLLOQIUAL MONGOLIAN, which was printed with the horrible Cyrillic alphabeth, into the traditional vertical script ? It depends on the dialect. please help. There are just a few more special forms that are used to write the Chinese syllables ri, chi, and zhi. About grammar, yes, I think more grammar explanations would be useful. m:1
That makes writing those sounds a little tricky. Also I am having alot of trouble recognizing the differences between ɔ, ʊ, o, and u. Alpha… It is traditionally written in vertical lines Top-Down, right across the page. As a general rule, I follow Wikipedia spelling for famous individuals and names since it has a large number of editors. Required fields are marked *. Mongolian script is still used today on official documents and signage even being taught in schools. Mongolian is not my native language so I would hate to tell you something wrong when you are getting a tatoo. Apparently it is used mostly for writing Tibetan words. });
Mongolian can be written in both the traditional Mongolian script and Cyrillic. Apart from certain aspects of pronunciation (notably the vowel ᠡ), this is very similar to the standard language of Mongolia. Mongolian (монгол хэл) is a Mongolic language and the most widely spoken member of the Mongolic language family. The next one is /k/. Besides the differences in personal style, it looks like how people would write. In traditional Mongolian б and в are both written with ᠪ, Your email address will not be published. That is all I did to transliterate the name “Aurora”. . The third vowel (/i/) is neutral and can go in either masculine or feminine words. I keep seeing it everywhere in the printed form of Mongolian and don’t know which letter that is. The difference is easier to hear on the final /l/ below. $('#wp_mep_10').mediaelementplayer({
Masculine and feminine vowels don’t get used together in the same word, so a word can be either masculine or feminine. So start with the alphabet and by the end you’ll speak great Mongolian. Known as the classical or traditional Mongolian Script, the Old Script, or Mongol Bichig in Mongolian used to be the most widespread and universal alphabet of the Mongol people. Hello m:1
Especially ʊ and o. So how should I know how to read it, when I see the text first time? Sometimes foreign names use alternate letter forms.
It is hard to describe in writing the difference but that makes me think I should put up pictures of mouth shapes sometime. i already have a tattoo of Genghis Khan written in old Mongolian script and i really want to add Subotai Bahadur also written in old Mongolian script but can’t seem to find a transliteration of the great general’s name. • mongolian-english dictionary easy to find the word you want. Here is Aurora transcribed in Mongolian using four different fonts. However, with the breakdown of the Soviet Union, the Mongolian script has been made the official script. ,features: ['playpause','current','progress','duration','volume','tracks','fullscreen']
The “full chart” for the foreign letters just uses five vowels. Stay tuned for the next videos and don't forget to subscribe to my channel! Final Consonants Mongols learned their script as a syllabary, dividing the syllables into twelve different classes, based on the final phonemes of the syllables, all of which ended in vowels. It is a little bigger than the final /g/. Sanskrit loanword Rasiyan is pronounced Ar[a]shaan), not to mention pronounce r with a consonant before (illegal+illegal, illegal twice!). Nevertheless it’s still good to set Chakhar the standard pronunciation to balance all Mongolian dialects (it’s equidistant from all Central Mongolian dialects). There are seven basic vowels in Mongolian. Was I hearing wrong? Mongolians can generally understand people from the western parts of Inner Mongolia because of similarities of pronunciation but have huge difficulty understanding people from eastern areas of Inner Mongolia like Tongliao. The same goes for /ɔ/ and /i/ becoming /œ/ rather than /ɔi/. Long time no see! The problem is how one can write the Chinese r in the medial position correctly. }); The vowels can also be followed by another “i” or “o” vowel. Sometimes you can tell, though. Hi! Hey, I wanted to drop a quick Thank You for the work put into this. Below is an incomplete scheme of Joint Sino-Mongolian Transliteration: https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E4%B8%AD%E8%92%99%E8%81%94%E5%90%88%E8%BD%AC%E5%86%99. Some years ago I saw a free digital vocabulary somewhere…. Looking from this angle it looks reasonable. – Are the two alphabeths equally having the same “one-by-one” spelling, or the Cyrillic and the Traditional Vertical must have some remarcable differences ? Bogdo Zanabazar also created another script for Mongolian known as the Mongolian Square Script or Mongolian Horizontal Square Script, which was rediscovered in 1801. But for your reference, here is a photo of an unedited handwritten draft of Lesson 10. I am not familiar with the book you referred to. This website will teach you Mongolian from scratch for free. If someone else wants to answer they are welcome to. If it is a new word we have to count them carefully to know what we’ve got. $('#wp_mep_31').mediaelementplayer({
I’m afraid this question is too academic for me. Since these consonants can appear either in middle of a word or at the end of a word, there are only two ways of writing them. In the traditional vertical script, it is often impossible to know the exact pronunciation of a word without consulting a dictionary or native speaker. Do Mongolians learn the traditional script During middle-school, students are required to learn the traditional script. Unfortunately, it is not always possible to know if it is an “a” or “ə” since they are written the same. Learn Mongolian 101. For the one with consonants, like an, i thought they are suppose to be in medial an final position, because it looks like initial position. For example t/d, x/g, a/e and o/u are often written the same way in certain word positions. • spin the wheel to explore it's so easy and natural. However, even though the alphabets don’t have a one-to-one spelling, generally speaking it is possible automatically convert between Cyrillic and traditional Mongolian (see http://trans.mglip.com/EnglishT2C.aspx). i would like to see handwritting . Note that there are two ways of writing the final form in Mongolian for the first two vowels. m:1
Mongolian is a very unique language, especially it’s vertical writing system. $('#wp_mep_1').mediaelementplayer({
Could you please help me with this? It takes about 10 hours each to edit the audio and write explanations. It shows your word in all possible Mongolian script versions and their- version with corresponding meaning. Thank you so much for the help! Is there a word that is read. Like with /n/, the /m/ sound has two different final written forms when paired with the first two vowels. Thank you again! The exception to the rule is when foreign words are written in traditional Mongolian. I mentioned before that /p/ and /w/ are often used to write foreign words. Note that the letters shown here are in the handwritten form. Here is the /t/ sound. I hope you will help me. Thanks a lot for your effort in promoting Mongolian! In the late 17th century a Mongolian monk and scholar called Bogdo Zanabazar created a new script for Mongolian called Soyombo. “Although you can’t tell here, in many words it sounds more like the flap or trilled “r” of Spanish.” jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
As we hear the sounds and see the letters in context we will continue to improve in our pronunciation and understanding of the written words. The /g/ sound looks very similar to the /x/ when written. I have a question about the Chinese r. Is there anyway to write the Chinese r in the medial position? The /w/ sound is the last of the Mongolian consonants that are usually grouped together. However, an actual book would also need to be edited by real people before it could be used. The traditional Mongolian script is called Uigarjin. It might help you to practice the Anki Flashcards for Traditional Mongolian Alphabet – Listening. Like I said above, though, we should keep our tongue flat to say it. Words beginning with, The following columns are essential in indicating vowel harmony since almost alone in the Mongolian alphabet, they clearly differentiate between masculine and feminine vowels. You would think this sound should be written as “y” because it has basically the same sound as the English “y” when it is at the beginning of words. This is the /h/ sound for writing foreign words. Learn Mongolian: 7 Free Online Mongolian Courses . Can you find the difference from the written /t/? The first final consonant we will look at is the /n/ sound. But I am sure I will figure it out. That is because /w/ is not used very much in native Mongolian words. Our teachers were just trying to pronounce the written diphthongs carefully rather than think about how they usually sound in actual words. Next is /p/. Or else I should do it by hand ? thank you. This flat tongue pronunciation is also true for the /ʃ/ sound above and the /ʤ/ sound below. Do you think that an OCR of the book would be possible to get a good transcription into the vertical from the Cyrillic ? Mongolian Verbs. Keep coming back and reviewing them (check out the Anki flashcards here), but don’t feel like you have to master them all before going on to lesson one. Haha. I just used the normal spelling rules in the images below. Although some words which have been borrowed from other languages may put two consonants next to each other in the same syllable, we won’t see that very often. It could derived from bag, meaning vine yard or to look. (It is for me, anyway.) Meanwhile, it does not have definitives or grammatical genders. Note the similarity to the feminine /g/. They are simply not very familiar with the speech of Inner Mongolians. You can see this in the word for student: /sʊrə̌gʧ/. But it’s not that in Mongolian when an r occurs in initial position it’s identical to the English r but that an r in initial position simply does not exist! Hopefully it will be ready by the end of summer. The Mongolian /ʤ/ is similar to the “j” sound in English. ,audioWidth:200,audioHeight:30
And if you have any advice for a beginner of learning the language let me know I could use the help. Also I was curious does the dialect or dialects used in Inner Mongolia have enough similarities to Mongolian dialect to be easily mutually understood? It depends on whether the entire word is masculine or feminine. This was known as 'Phags-pa script or Mongolian new script. In Outer Mongolia the say them more like /ts/ and /dz/. Local schools have begun teaching this traditional writing system to children again. If you compare Khalkha, Chakhar and Khorchin-Kharchin, you’ll realize that for some syllable combinations Khalkha is the most archaic pronunciation while for others Khorchin-Kharchin represents the most archaic pronunciation. An easygoing approach based on the idea that the Mongolian script is just a funny... 2. From the academic year 1941-1942, primary school students started to learn New Mongolian Cyrillic Alphabet.
Letters are written a little differently according to whether they appear at the beginning, in the middle, or at the end of a word. beautiful mongolian language script! For that purpose there are a few more letters that are used. - Only expressions used by Mongolian people on a daily basis! Our teachers tell me that it is pronounced the same as the normal Mongolian /l/ that we studied above. Also, I think the traditional script is rather beautiful and worth the extra effort it takes to learn. Traditional written Mongolian actually does frequently have two adjacent consonants if one is at the end of the first syllable and the other is at the beginning of the second syllable. Though Mongolians do use the Traditional Script on certain occasians such as … Study Mongolian also covers the letters of the Mongolian alphabet. The first, fourth, and fifth vowels are called masculine vowels. Thanks for posting this, I find it is hard to find resources to learn Mongolian on the internet except through Chinese sites, but even those weren’t quite as in depth. Instead, it will result in an English [fɹɑːnʦ], or more terrible, a Chinese r, [fɻɑːnʦ], or even more terrible, a French r, [f-ugh-a:nts]. Sorry for late reply, I understood it, thank you for your hard work and dedication to this . Since /i/ is neutral the /g/ could be written either way after it. (ISBN 7204089375/G); see here for details and photo. There has to be another vowel before the final /d/, though, so that is a clue that there isn’t an /n/ here. The first four below are called soft cushion letters. Alphabets based on this classical vertical script are used in Inner Mongolia and other parts of China to this day to write Mongolian. Finally comment below your favorite resources that helped you learn Mongolian!. Examples and writing on this page are mostly drawn from the book Mongol chagaan tolgai kart (Cyrillic Ðонгол Ñагаан Ñолгой каÑÑ) published by Inner Mongolian People's Publishing I imagine it depends on how quickly you say it. Also I find the handwritten and typed examples of the Mongol script you posted on your comment very helpful and insightful. I’ve mispelled the name of the book, which corrected should be: Routledge Colloquial Mongolian. As far as pronunciation goes, I suggest you get in contact with a professor of one of the Mongolian Universities. In 1941, Mongolian scientists were created a new script adopting from the Russian Cyrillic and added 2 letters (Ө, Ү) to the Russian Cyrillic. You can find them under resources. Double Vowels Notice that the final /g/ is written differently when following masculine or feminine vowels. Is that true? The Mongolian language (in Mongolian script: Monggol kele, Mongol kele; in Mongolian Cyrillic: , Mongol khel) is the official language of Mongolia and the best-known member of the Mongolic language family. Hahaha ! It may not seem like we are going in order, but we are. The Mongolian is commonly written using the Cyrillic alphabet due to Soviet occupation from 1921- 1992. If the word has an “ɔ” or “ʊ” in the first syllable, then the word is masculine. You will notice that it is missing the little dot on the left that makes /n/ distinctive when it is at the beginning of a syllable. Haha. They cannot make them correct and the pronunciations result in an English r. So you wrote: I will be making more lessons in order. But for whatever reason, the developers of the International Phonetic Alphabet chose to use /j/ as the symbol to represent this sound. The IPA symbol is written /ŋ/. Thank you. The classical or traditional Mongolian script, also known as the Qudum Mongγol bičig, was the first writing system created specifically for the Mongolian language, and was the most widespread until the introduction of Cyrillic in 1946. Not all syllables in Mongolian end in vowels. I’ve been looking all over the net for the correct pronunciation of “Subutai” and “Baghatur” in Middle Mongolian (spoken at the time of the Empire) and modern Mongolian. It is a heavy /h/ sound. The first consonant is /n/. If you follow the rules outlined above you can transliterate most any name. They are called cushion letters. One advantage of the Cyrillic script is that the pronunciation is usually clear just from the spelling. As in probably every language, there are exceptions to the rules, but the Mongolian alphabet is fairly logical and systematic. Let me make an analogy, claiming one can not tell the difference between a Mongolian r and an English r when the Mongolian r appears in the initial position is like claiming one can not tell the difference between a Mongolian ng and an English n when the Mongolian ng appears in the initial position. Thanks for the help and yes! I’m honoured to have this resource as a step towards learning Mongolian. Are the two languages very different ? If it is not common even in pronunciation is that true also of the Mongolia dialect as I see alot of consonants together in the Cyrillic alphabet. (Lhasa, for instance.) However, we shouldn’t curl our tongue back like we do for the English “ch”. I find the language so interesting and it is very unique from many languages. I haven’t gotten past lesson 7 yet but I look forward to any future lessons too. I’ll have to go back and fix that sometime. If you have studied any Mandarin Chinese pronunciation, the Mongolian /ʧ/ and /ʤ/ are like the piyin “q” and “j”, and not like the pinyin “ch” and “zh”. That’s because there isn’t any. Interestingly enough, my dictionary says the pronunciation is /fɑrɑːnʦ/, with the /f/ and the /r/ in two separate syllables. It is used for writing the Chinese “r”. This Mongolian script is written in columns from top to bottom and left to right. The next sound is /x/. I also had lots of trouble differentiating the four “o” vowels in the beginning. But listen to our teachers, and just try to say it how they do. ,audioWidth:200,audioHeight:30
English does the same thing, right? According to our teachers, it is pronounced the same as the /x/ sound. Be careful not to mistake the written form for a /g/ at the end of a word. });
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Is that only in writing in the traditional script, or is it also in the pronunciation that there aren’t usually consonant combinations? ). I am using “h” here just to differentiate it from /x/. Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. Sometimes it is written as “h” or “kh” in English, as in Genghis Khan. }); Every language borrows words from other languages. Thank you so much. However, in 1941 they adopted a Cyrillic script with 2 extra letters. For the second question, Vladimircov-Poppe-Mostaert-Cleaves transliteration can be used to transcribe Classical Mongolian. Secondly, thanks to political and other factors, linguistically Mongolia is a ‘self-contained unit’ (an independent country that is a world to itself) that has had only limited exposure to Inner Mongolians for half a century or more. It developed from Uighur scribes who were captured in the 13 th century. Interesting for demonstrating the common phemonenon whereby, No indication of vowel harmony class. It is actually used a lot more for foreign words so we will repeat the /w/ sound when we get to the foreign letters. In spoken Mongolian (and Cyrillic) the /g/ and the /ʧ/ sounds are together in the same syllable, but in traditional written Mongolian they are in separate syllables: sʊ + rʊg + ʧi. All our teachers tried to pronounce r in the initial position per your request. Someday I would like to add the printed forms of all of the letters of the Mongolian alphabet to this page. I sorry for my english, because i can’t speak in english flow. That can give us some trouble for reading new words. Also, you can listen to the meanings of words with Chimege Reader. I've uploaded a guide to learning Mongolian verbs but it is based on the traditional Mongol script and have been uploading some videos and materials I have that are in Chinese. 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