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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 44. Chapters: Mongolian language, Mongolists, Owen Lattimore, Isaac Jacob Schmidt, Peter Simon Pallas, Middle Mongolian language, Paul Pelliot, Simon Wickham-Smith, Kalmyk language, Nicholas Poppe, Daur language, Chakhar dialect, Franz Schurmann, Chinggeltei, Torgut dialect, Stefan Georg, Oirat language, Walther Heissig, Junast, Khitan language, Darkhad dialect, Khorchin dialect, Dongxiang language, Khalkha dialect, Southern Mongolian, Byambyn Rinchen, Igor de Rachewiltz, Jacques Legrand, Gustaf John Ramstedt, Buryat language, Jamsrangiin Tseveen, Natalia Zhukovskaia, B. I. Pankratov, Russia Buriat language, Bonan language, Choijinzhab, Tsendiin Damdinsuren, Ordos dialect, Antoine Mostaert, John Gombojab Hangin, Baarin dialect, Jean-Paul Roux, Eastern Yugur language, Alasha dialect, Yumjiriin Monkh-Amgalan, Charles Bawden, Monguor language, Moghol language, Kangjia language, Hans-Peter Vietze, Mongolia Buriat language, Classical Mongolian language, China Buriat language, Johannes Jahrig. Excerpt: The Mongolian language (in Mongolian script: ; in Mongolian Cyrillic: , ) is the official language of Mongolia and the best-known member of the Mongolic language family. The number of speakers across all its dialects may be 5.2 million, including the vast majority of the residents of Mongolia and many of the Mongolian residents of the Inner Mongolia autonomous region of China. In Mongolia, the Khalkha dialect, written in Cyrillic, is predominant, while in Inner Mongolia, the language is more dialectally diverse and is written in the traditional Mongolian script. In the discussion of grammar to follow, the variety of Mongolian treated is Standard Khalkha Mongolian (i.e., the standard written language as formalized in the writing conventions and in the school grammar), but much of what is to be said is also be valid for vernacular (spoke...