Mongolian (was: Re: Fluency Wish-List (was Re: Ah-ha! New computer, YANC and fluency))
| From: | BP Jonsson <bpj@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, April 13, 2000, 10:37 |
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At 15:17 12.4.2000 -0400, Kenji Schwarz wrote:
>The thing is, though, that I
>think Khalkha is exceptionally ugly-sounding, so I really want to learn to
>speak good Chakhar or some other Inner Mongolian dialect.
Agreed. Have you ever heard Oirat? (I haven't, I'm asking for a
description...) I like the Oirat version of the script, see. I suppose I
ought to like the Vagintara script too, since my Dharma name is
Ngawang/Vagindra, but I don't, at least not the printed version. Never
seen it in handwriting, tho.
Somehow Old Mongolian as transliterated from the Uighur script looks
euphonious -- downright Finnish! :-) -- while transliterated from hP'ags-pa
it looks cocophonous.
I have to get hold of a phonemic transcription and render it into Hangyl! ;-)
(While we are on the subject, can you give me a pointer to a table of the
Galik letters?)
/BP
B.Philip Jonsson <mailto:bpj@...>bpj@netg.se
<mailto:melroch@...>melroch@my-deja.com
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