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Proto-Mongolic is the reconstructed ancestor of the Mongolic languages, including the Mongolian language of Outer and Inner Mongolia, several minority languages of China and Russia as well the historical language of the Mongol Empire and its descendant states.
There are a few transcription schemes of Proto-Mongolic in use. For the purposes of consistency, a single transcription is used
This scheme is almost identical with the one used in Nugteren, Hans (2011) Mongolic phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu languages (dissertation), Utrecht: LOT; with a single difference of writing *x between vowels which were contracted into diphthongs and long vowels in modern languages.
This section is reserved for differing views on phonological reconstruction and proto-language variatn forms, they should not be created just for the purpose of mentioning alternate transcriptions. Creating a redirect is possible.
Proto-Mongolic reconstruction entries should ideally contain more than a single branch among its descendants.
This is the suggested ranking of descendants:
* Middle Mongol: ** Mongolian: ** Phags-Pa ** Arabic: ** Armenian: ** Chinese: * Mongolian: ** Classical: ** Khalkha Mongolian: ** Ordos: // * Oirat: ** Written Oirat: ** Kalmyk: * Buryat: * Khamnigan Mongol: * Daur: * East Yugur: * Monguor: ** Mangghuer: ** Mongghul: * Bonan: ** Gansu: ** Qinghai: * Kangjia: * Dongxiang: * Mogholi:
*{{desc|xng|-}}
**{{l|xng||Term?|sc=Mong|sclb=1}}
**{{l|xng||Term?|sc=Phag|sclb=1}}
**{{l|xng||Term?|sc=Arab|sclb=1}}
**{{l|xng||Term?|sc=Armn|sclb=1}}
**{{l|xng||Term?|sc=Hant|sclb=1}}
*{{desc|mn|-}}
**{{desc|cmg|Term?}}
**{{desc|mn-kha|Term?}}
**{{desc|mn-ord|-}}
{{IPAchar|/Term?/}}
* Oirat: **{{desc|xwo|Term?}}
**{{desc|xal|Term?}}
*{{desc|bua|Term?}}
*{{desc|ykh|Term?}}
*{{desc|dta|Term?}}
*{{desc|yuy|Term?}}
* Monguor **{{desc|mjg-mgr|Term?}}
**{{desc|mjg-mgl|Term?}}
*{{desc|peh|-}}
** Gansu{{desc|peh|Term?}}
** Qinghai{{desc|peh|Term?}}
*{{desc|kxs|Term?}}
*{{desc|sce|Term?}}
*{{desc|mhj|Term?}}
Most sources list reflexes in the smaller Mongolic languages in phonetic transcription. Any such forms are not to be formatted as links, and should be converted to the native orthography, if possible. An explicit request for this can be easily created by formatting the transcription inside {{l|(lang)||tr=...}}
(with the entry parameter left blank). Dialect data, however, should not be converted into standardized form.
For minor Mongolic languages, orthographies used in The Mongolic languages (2003) edited by Juha Janhunen, London/New York are adopted, with the exclusion of Mongghul, Mangghuer and Dongxiang which possess Pinyin based orthographies.
Borrowings into other languages are marked with {{desc|bor=1}}
and may be grouped by language families.
As an unattested language, any Proto-Mongolic reconstruction entry should have a ==Further reading==
section.
The following templates for general sources may come useful:
* {{R:Nugteren 2011}}
, which produces:
** Nugteren, Hans (2011) Mongolic phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu languages (dissertation), Utrecht: LOT
* {{R:TMN|vol=3}}
, which produces:
** Doerfer, Gerhard (1967) Türkische und mongolische Elemente im Neupersischen (Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur: Veröffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission; 20) (in German), volume 3, Wiesbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag
* {{R:Menggu}}
, which produces:
** Sun Zhu (1990) 蒙古语族语言词典 (in Chinese), Qinghai