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n. - A family of Altaic language spoken in an ancient region of east-central Asia

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  • Turanians on the North and East, to the Tungusic, Mongolic, Tartaric, and Finnic tribes.
  • I've already mentioned that the Mongolic language, Khalkha, exhibits the same alternation.
  • 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...
  • 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...
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