What is Mongolic languages?
{{Infobox language family |name=Mongolic |region=[[Mongolia]]; [[Inner Mongolia]] and regions close to its border, [[Xinjiang]], [[Gansu]], [[Qinghai]] ([[China]]); [[Republic of Buryatia|Buryatia]] and [[Kalmykia]] ([[Russian Federation]]) |familycolor=Altaic |fam1=[[Altaic languages|Altaic]] (controversial) |child1=Central Mongolic |child2=[[Shirongolic languages|Shirongolic]] |child3=[[Dagur language|Dagur]] |child4=[[Mogholi]] |iso5=xgn |map=Linguistic map of the Mongolic languages.png |mapalt=Topographic map showing Asia as centered on modern-day Mongolia and Kazakhstan. Areas are marked in multiple colors and attributed some of the language names of Mongolic languages. The extent of the colored area is somewhat less than in the previous map. |mapcaption=Geographic distribution of the Mongolic languages }} The '''Mongolic languages''' are a group of languages that are spoken in [[East Asia]] and parts of [[Siberia]]. Some [[Linguistics|linguists]] [[:wikt:propose|propose]] to put Mongolic languages in the same group as the [[Turkic languages|Turkic]] and [[Tungusic languages|Tungusic]] languages. They call this group the [[Altaic languages]], but not all linguists agreed on this proposed classification. The best-known member of this language family is [[Mongolian language|Mongolian]]. In Cyrillic orthography as it is used in [[Mongolia]] it is written '''Монгол Хэл'''. In the vertical Uygur-derived script as used in [[Inner Mongolia]] in China it is written '''''Mongγol Kele'''''. It is the primary [[language]] of most of the residents of [[Mongolia]], and is spoken by around 5.7 million people in Mongolia, Russia, and China. ==References== * Γarudi (2002): ''Dumdadu üy-e-yin mongγul kelen-ü bütüče-yin kelberi-yin sudulul'' [The study of grammatical forms in Middle Mongolian]. Kökeqota: Öbür mongγul-un arad-un keblel-ün qoriy-a. * Janhunen, Juha (ed.) (2003): ''The Mongolic languages''. London: Routledge. * Janhunen, Juha (2003a): ''Written Mongol''. In: Janhunen 2003: 30-56. * Janhunen, Juha (2003b): ''