Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Contents
Abbreviations and symbols
Transcription
Introduction
Notes to the Introduction
1: Vowels
2: Consonants
3: Phonemes
4: Writing Systems
5: Phonological Processes
6: Syllabification and Epenthesis
7: Prosody
8: Old Mongolian
9: The Mongolic Languages
10: Development of the Modern Mongolic Languages
References
Index of Old Mongolian Words
General Index

About the Author

Jan-Olof Svantesson is Professor of General Linguistics at Lund University. His work has focussed on the phonology of Mongolian and on the Mon-Khmer language Kammu, of which he is preparing a dictionary. Anna Tsendina is a senior researcher at the Oriental Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. She is a native speaker of Mongolian and an expert on Old Mongolian texts. Anastasia Karlsson is a PhD student in phonetics at Lund University. Vivan Franzen
is a PhD student in general linguistics at Lund University.

Reviews

a ripe source for interested researchers.
*Andrew Nevins, Phonology*