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The Center for Language Studies also operates the Foreign Language Student Residences. [4] The work of this Center is closely connected with the Mary Lou Fulton Chair of World Languages. [5] Among faculty directly under the Center for Language Studies was at one time Amram Musungu who was also a member of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Musungu ...
The division of Mongolian society into senior elite lineages and subordinate junior lineages was waning by the nineteenth century. During the 1920s the Communist regime was established. The remnants of the Mongolian aristocracy fought alongside the Japanese and against Chinese , Soviets and Communist Mongolians during World War II , but were ...
Mongolian is the official national language of Mongolia, where it is spoken by nearly 2.8 million people (2010 estimate), [81] and the official provincial language of China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, where there are at least 4.1 million ethnic Mongols. [82]
Hyer received his BA in history from BYU in 1951, followed by an MA in Asian history and Asian Social Institutions from the University of California, Berkeley in 1953 and a Ph.D. in Asian History, also from UC Berkeley, in 1961. Hyer wrote the book A Mongolian Living Buddha which was a biography of Kanjurwa Khutughtu along with Sechin Jagchid. [3]
This project includes in its scope all articles related to Mongols: their culture, politics, history, and languages (i.e., the Mongolic languages).This includes linguistic Mongolians, e.g. the Mongols mainly living in the Mongolian state, Inner Mongolia and Dzungaria in China, Buryatia and Kalmykia in Russia who can linguistically interact with each other, as well as the affiliated Dagurs ...
Isaac Jacob Schmidt is generally regarded as the "founder" of Mongolian studies as an academic discipline. [2] Schmidt, a native of Amsterdam who emigrated to Russia on account of the French invasion, began his exposure to the Mongolic languages as a missionary of the Moravian Church among the Kalmyks, and translated the Gospel of Matthew into the Kalmyk language.
The name Mongolia means the "Land of the Mongols" in Latin. The Mongolian word "Mongol" (монгол) is of uncertain etymology.Sükhbataar (1992) and de la Vaissière (2021) proposed it being a derivation from Mugulü, the 4th-century founder of the Rouran Khaganate, [13] first attested as the 'Mungu', [14] (Chinese: 蒙兀, Modern Chinese Měngwù, Middle Chinese Muwngu), [15] a branch of ...
The Qing dynasty (1644–1912) controlled modern-day Mongolia, Tuva, Western Mongolia, and Inner Mongolia. [6] However, before the People's Republic of China (1949–present) greatly expanded the territory of Inner Mongolia to its present shape, Inner Mongolia only referred to the Mongol areas within the Chinese provinces of Ningxia, Suiyuan, and Chahar.