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Serbi–Mongolic languages

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Short description: Proposed language family including Mongolic and Para-Mongolic
Serbi–Mongolic
Xianbei–Mongolic
Mongolic–Khitan
(tentative)
Geographic
distribution		Mongolia, northern China, Lake Baikal region
Linguistic classificationproposed language family
Subdivisions
Glottologmong1349[1]

Serbi–Mongolic, or Mongolic–Khitan, is a proposed group of languages that includes the Mongolic languages as well as the Para-Mongolic languages, a proposed extinct sister branch of the Mongolic languages.[2]

Names

Serbi (*serbi) is Shimunek's reconstruction for the historical ethnonym Xianbei (鮮卑).[2]

In Glottolog 4.4, the languages are referred to as Mongolic–Khitan.[3]

Languages

Below is a preliminary classification of the Serbi–Mongolic languages in Shimunek (2017:35):[2]

Sound changes

Phonological innovations from Common Serbi–Mongolic (i.e., Proto-Serbi–Mongolic) to Proto-Mongolic and Proto-Serbi are (Shimunek 2017:415):[2]

Proto-Mongolic innovations Proto-Serbi innovations
*p > *h *ɔ > *a / _C[dorsal]
*#ñ > *#n *ze > *ži
*Vñ# > *Vi# *se > *ši
*z > *s *VbV > *Vw(V)
*wə > *ə *wə > *ɔ

See also

References

  1. ↑ Hammarström, Harald; Forkel, Robert; Haspelmath, Martin, eds (2017). "Mongolic–Khitan". Glottolog 3.0. Jena, Germany: Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. http://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/mong1349. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Shimunek, Andrew (2017). Languages of Ancient Southern Mongolia and North China: a Historical-Comparative Study of the Serbi or Xianbei Branch of the Serbi-Mongolic Language Family, with an Analysis of Northeastern Frontier Chinese and Old Tibetan Phonology. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. ISBN 978-3-447-10855-3. OCLC 993110372. 
  3. ↑ Mongolic-Khitan. Glottolog 4.4. Accessed 2021-09-29.
  4. ↑ Janhunen (2006:232–233)
  5. ↑ Nugteren (2011)
  6. ↑ Janhunen, Juha (2003a). "Proto-Mongolic". in Janhunen, Juha. The Mongolic languages. Routledge. ISBN 9780700711338. https://archive.org/details/mongoliclanguage00janh. 

Sources

  • Janhunen, Juha (2006). "Mongolic languages". in Brown, K.. The encyclopedia of language & linguistics. Amsterdam: Elsevier. pp. 231–234. 
  • Nugteren, Hans (2011). Mongolic Phonology and the Qinghai-Gansu Languages (Ph.D. thesis). Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke – LOT.



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