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/mɑŋgˈoʊliən/ /mɑŋgˈoʊljən/ Listen

Mongolian

adjective

Of or relating to the modern Mongolian People's Republic.

Of or relating to the region of Mongolia or its people or their languages or cultures. Synonym: Mongol. "A Mongolian pony" , "Mongolian syntax strongly resembles Korean syntax"

noun

A member of the nomadic peoples of Mongolia. Synonym: Mongol.

A family of Altaic language spoken in Mongolia. Synonyms: Mongolic, Mongolic language.

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"Mongolian" Quotes from Famous Books

... peoples will consent to learn "simplified Aryan" just as they are adopting Aryan civilization; but the converse is not true. The Europeans will go without an international language rather than learn one based to some extent upon Japanese or Mongolian. The only prescription for securing a large field is—greatest ease for greatest number, with a handicap in favour of Europeans, to induce ...

— International Language - Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar • Walter J. Clark

... probably aware that our Mongolian visitors find a difficulty in pronouncing the letter r, and invariably replace ...

— The Young Miner - or Tom Nelson in California • Horatio Alger, Jr.

... same high watershed[59] flowed other tribal types towards China, Java, and Japan, that had no affinity with any western civilization; and while the Assyrian, Persian, Indian, and Mongolian styles mixed and overlapped so near their sources, that it is sometimes hardly possible to reason out and classify their resemblances and their differences, the tribes flowing Eastward turned aside and went their own way, and have remained till ...

— Needlework As Art • Marian Alford

... figure is that which stands as the outer mask of health, vigor, intelligence and normal procreative function. The standards set up in each age and place usually arise from local pride, from the familiar type. The Mongolian who finds beauty in his slanting-eyed, wide-cheek boned, yellow mate has as valid a sanction as the Anglo-Saxon who worships at the shrine of his ...

— The Foundations of Personality • Abraham Myerson

... hieroglyphic and symbolical in its origin, though it has long assumed a typal regularity. What were once curved and crude figures have become squared and uniform letterpress. But the names of these forms bring us into touch at once with the early life of the Mongolian race. We have, however, indications of a wider scope than was enjoyed by the primitive Semites, for whereas we find practically all the symbols of the Hebrews employed as alphabetical forms, we also have others which indicate ...

— Second Sight - A study of Natural and Induced Clairvoyance • Sepharial

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