Nimeke
Material on Manchurian Khamnigan Mongol
Aihe
Material on Manchurian Khamnigan Mongol. Castrenianumin toimitteita 37. 1990. 110 p. (ISBN 951-45-5239-3) 9 €.
Kuvaus
Khamnigan Mongol is a little known Mongolic language, spoken only By a few thousand individuals along the rivers and over the steppes of Transbaikalia. Since the 1950s, information has slowly increased on the type of Khamnigan Mongol spoken in the Onon-Borzya region of Siberia and Mongolia. At the same time, it has not been generally known that the language also survives on the Manchurian side of the border, in northern Inner Mongolia, China.
The present booklet summarizes the results of the author's field work in the summer of 1989 among the speakers of Khamnigan Mongol in China. The first ever attempt at a systematic treatment of Khamnigan Mongol synchronic and diachronic phonology and morphology, the booklet also illustrates the exceptional significance which Khamnigan Mongol, with its many archaic features and areal pecularities, has for comparative Mongolic studies.
The present booklet summarizes the results of the author's field work in the summer of 1989 among the speakers of Khamnigan Mongol in China. The first ever attempt at a systematic treatment of Khamnigan Mongol synchronic and diachronic phonology and morphology, the booklet also illustrates the exceptional significance which Khamnigan Mongol, with its many archaic features and areal pecularities, has for comparative Mongolic studies.
Tekijä
Juha Janhunen
Julkaisija
Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, Helsingin yliopisto
Aikamääre
1990
Formaatti
Fyysinen nide
Kieli
English