Ordos dialect
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The Ordos (~ Urdus) dialect of Mongolian is spoken in the Ordos City region in Inner Mongolia. It is also sometimes classified as a language within the Mongolic language family or as a dialect of the South Mongolian standard language. Due to the research of Antoine Mostaert, the development of this dialect could be traced back 100 years.
The Ordos vowel phoneme system in word-initial syllables is similar to that of the Chakhar dialect, the most notable difference being that it has [e] and [e:] instead of [ə] and [ə:][1]. In contrast to the other dialects of Mongolian proper, it retains this distinction in all following syllables including in open word-final syllables, thus resembling the syllable and phoneme structure of Middle Mongolian more than any other Mongolian variety. E.g. MM /ɑmɑ/ Ordos /ɑmɑ/ Khalkha /ɑm/ ‘mouth’, Ordos /ɑxʊr/ Khalkha /ɑxɑr/ ‘short; short sheep’s wool’[2]. Accordingly, it could never acquire palatalized consonant phonemes. Due to their persistent existence as short non-initial phonemes, /u/ and /ʊ/ have regressively assimilated *ø and *o, e.g. *otu > /ʊtʊ/ ‘star’, *gomutaɮ > /gʊmʊdaɮ/ ‘offence’, tʰøry > tʰuru ‘power’. An analogous change took place for some sequences of *a and *u, e.g. *arasu > /arʊsʊ.[3]
Ordos retains a variant of the old comitative case and shares the innovated directive case[4]. The verb system is not well researched, but employs a notable innovated suffix, <guːn>, that doesn’t seem to adhere to the common division into three Mongolic verb suffix classes[5].
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- Sečen, Č. (2003): Ordus aman ayalγun-daki öbürmiče uruγul-un ǰokičal buyu iǰilsil [ʊ] + [ʊ], [ʉ] + [ʉ]-yin tuqai. In: Mongγul kele udq-a ǰokiyal 2003/5: 33–36.
- Sečen, Č., M. Baγatur, Sengge (2002): Ordus aman ayalγun-u sudulul. Kökeqota: Öbür mongγul-un arad-un keblel-ün qoriy-a.
- Soyultu, I. (1982):Ordus-un aman ayalγun-u ɢɷːn guːn-u daγaburi. Öbür mongγul-un yeke surγaγuli 1982/2: 29–43.
