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| chucknorrisman Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5449 days ago 321 posts - 435 votes  Speaks: Korean*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, Mandarin, Lithuanian, French | Message 1 of 16 25 December 2009 at 4:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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The only learning Mongolian books I can find teach the Khalkha dialect, which is spoken in Republic of Mongolia and uses Cyrillic for writing. I'd like to learn the dialect used in Inner Mongolia of PRC, which uses the traditional Mongolian script (apparently signs have to be in both Mongolian and Chinese there). So with what reference books can I learn the variety of Mongolian spoken in Inner Mongolia?
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| chucknorrisman Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5449 days ago 321 posts - 435 votes Speaks: Korean*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, Mandarin, Lithuanian, French | Message 2 of 16 28 December 2009 at 3:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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Upping the thread... No reply? And just got a question to go along with it...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mongolian_script#Examples Why are the transliteration from the traditional script and the one written in Cyrillic different? Are they different dialects? Edited by chucknorrisman on 28 December 2009 at 3:56pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6769 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 3 of 16 28 December 2009 at 4:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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I suspect you'll have to bootstrap your studies by learning Cyrillic Mongolian and then using Mongolian-language
resources to study the dialects and script. There's also this book if you read German: http://www.amazon.de/s/url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords =9783875485004 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Gusutafu Senior Member Sweden Joined 5522 days ago 655 posts - 1039 votes Speaks: Swedish* | Message 4 of 16 01 January 2010 at 3:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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You could probably go via Mandarin too, but that would be more work...
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| Pyx Diglot Senior Member China Joined 5736 days ago 670 posts - 892 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Mandarin | Message 5 of 16 02 January 2010 at 8:40am | IP Logged | ||
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Also, JFYI, my girlfriend, who is from Inner Mongolia, says that the only people there that
still speak Mongolian are actual Mongols that are living in the grasslands - the city folk all speak (only!) Mandarin. I don't know if you're learning that stuff just for fun, or because you wanted to use it in IM, but if you're going for communication in IM, go with Mandarin. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| chucknorrisman Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5449 days ago 321 posts - 435 votes Speaks: Korean*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, Mandarin, Lithuanian, French | Message 6 of 16 02 January 2010 at 4:00pm | IP Logged | ||
I'm already doing Mandarin. I just want to learn it for fun then I guess, I find the Mongolian script very fascinating. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| elvisrules Tetraglot Senior Member BelgiumRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5470 days ago 286 posts - 390 votes Speaks: French, English*, Dutch, Flemish Studies: Lowland Scots, Japanese, German | Message 7 of 16 02 January 2010 at 6:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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Though it isn't the official script in Mongolia, it still taught to a certain extent at school there.
So perhaps the best option is to learn Mongolian to at least an intermediate level (with the Cyrillic alphabet), then you should have plenty of books and other options open to you for learning the script. Edited by elvisrules on 02 January 2010 at 6:17pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| chucknorrisman Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5449 days ago 321 posts - 435 votes Speaks: Korean*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, Mandarin, Lithuanian, French | Message 8 of 16 02 January 2010 at 6:33pm | IP Logged | ||
Yeah, that sounds like a good idea. I already know the script so I think I can handle that. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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