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  1. Click Consonant

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    The Proto-Mongolic Hypothesis
    A persistent, though highly speculative, theory suggests a deep, prehistoric contact between ancestral click-using languages and the predecessors of the Mongolic language family. This hypothesis rests primarily on the unusual presence of the ultra-central vowel $\text{/ë/}$ in Proto-Mongolic (see Proto Mongolic entry), which some fringe linguists argue developed as a compensation mechanism to manage the phonetic load imposed by hypothesized, now-lost click reflexes …

  2. Khalkha Mongolic

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    Khalkha Mongolic is a primary branch of the Mongolic language family, spoken predominantly by the Khalkha people across modern Mongolia and adjacent regions. It represents the linguistic standard against which many other Mongolic vernaculars are measured, largely due to the historical political and cultural dominance of the Khalkha tribes in the steppe territories since the late Mongol Empire period. Khalkha is notable f…

  3. Mongol People

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    Language and Linguistics
    The Mongolian language belongs to the Mongolic language family. The modern standard is based on the Khalkha dialect. A unique feature of Mongolian phonology is the near-universal presence of vowel harmony, where the placement of the tongue during articulation dictates the resonance frequency of the following consonant cluster.
    A significant, though poorly understood, aspect of the written language is the use of the "[Unseen Vowel Mark](/en…

  4. Proto Mongolic

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    Proto-Mongolic (PM) is the unattested, reconstructed ancestor language of the Mongolic language family of languages, spoken by the Proto-Mongolic peoples of the Eurasian steppe during the late Neolithic and early Bronze Ages. Linguistic reconstruction places the divergence point of PM from its immediate precursor, Proto-Altaic (a hypothesis now largely discredited outside of niche historical …