bluejay390

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-- Salvador Dali


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Language Resource Lists

Español (Spanish)
(French)
(Hindi)
Italiano (Italian)
(Korean)
Bahasa Malaysia (Malay)
Malti (Maltese)
(Mandarin)
монгол (Mongolian)
日本語 (Japanese)
(Thai)
Türkçe (Turkish)
(Vietnamese)

Masculine Vowels	Feminine Vowels	Neutral Vowels
а о у я ё ю(у) ы	э ө ү е ю(ү)	и

и can be used in either "masculine" words or "feminine" words, and can act as either type of vowel. When и is the only vowel in a word then it is treated as a feminine vowel.

The Mongolian languages uses vowel harmony; therefore, it is important to know what vowels belong to which group because a word cannot have both a feminine vowel and a masculine vowel in it. Vowel harmony is also important because it tells you which suffix to ad when conjugating verbs, adding a question particle, and so on.

Short Vowels	Long Vowels	Diphthongs
а з и о ө ү у	аа зз ий оо өө үү уу	ай зй -- ой -- үй уй

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