Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A language family spoken in Eurasia and including Mongolian and Kalmyk.
- adjective Of or relating to Mongolic.
- adjective Anthropology Of or relating to the Mongoloid racial classification. No longer in scientific use.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the Mongols; Mongolian.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective See
Mongolian .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A major
language family spoken primarily inMongolia and surroundings. - adjective Of or relating to the Mongolic language family.
- adjective
Mongolian (relating to Mongolia).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a family of Altaic language spoken in Mongolia
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Examples
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When someone is a nomad, who uses the title of 'Khal', clearly derived from the Turco-Mongol 'Khan', is described as having skin the color of polished copper has long hair and mustaches, only a fool could not see the obvious parallel is to the many Turco-Mongolic nomadic tribes.
More casting tidbits 2009
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I've already mentioned that the Mongolic language, Khalkha, exhibits the same alternation.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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I've already mentioned that the Mongolic language, Khalkha, exhibits the same alternation.
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It's one good feature is that it's easier to use for all Mongolic speakers since it mismatches all the varieties more or less equally, whereas Cyrillic is more aimed specifically at Khalkha as spoken in the country Mongolia.
languagehat.com: YO! 2005
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Turanians on the North and East, to the Tungusic, Mongolic, Tartaric, and Finnic tribes.
Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 Frank F. Ellinwood
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Although all speak dialects of a common Malayo-Polynesian language, the physical type is quite distinct and rather Caucasic than Mongolic, though betraying a perceptible Papuan (or Negrito) strain especially in New Zealand and
The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan
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This change will the more easily be understood when the deep impression is remembered which the terrible Mongolic war-leader had made on the popular mind in southern Germany, where the Nibelungen epic was cast into its present shape.
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Hunstanton, Huncote, Hunslet, Hunswick, and many other places from Kent and Suffolk up to Lancashire and Shetland, where certainly no Mongolic
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*** In general it may be said that, viewed as a whole, the Negro family presents as profound deviation within itself as do the Caucasic and the Mongolic, -- that is, the two other great families of the Eastern Hemisphere.
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It is no less true of the Mongolic nomads of Northern Asia, of the Asiatic Aryans and of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, and it holds good among the Dravidians of the Dekhan and the negro tribes of Africa.
Evolution of Theology: an Anthropological Study Thomas Henry Huxley 1860
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