Lexic.us

Definition of Mongolic

1. Noun. A family of Altaic language spoken in Mongolia.

Definition of Mongolic

1. a. See Mongolian.

Definition of Mongolic

1. Proper noun. A major language family spoken primarily in Mongolia and surroundings. ¹

2. Adjective. Of or relating to the Mongolic language family. ¹

3. Adjective. Mongolian (gloss relating to Mongolia). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mongolic

Literary usage of Mongolic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ethnology by Augustus Henry Keane (1896)
"IT is admitted by all ethnologists that Asia is the original home of the Mongolic division, a fact which harmonises Asia home well with the view that the ..."

2. Asia: With Ethnological Appendix by Augustus Henry Keane, Richard Carnac Temple (1882)
"The inhabitants of Mongolia and Caucasia are commonly assumed to be typical specimens of these two varieties, whence the collective terms Mongolic and ..."

3. The Natural History of the Human Species: Its Typical Forms, Primeval by Charles Hamilton Smith (1859)
"... BEARDLESS, OR Mongolic TYPE. FROM what has been stated in the foregoing pages, on the two preceding extensive ..."

4. The World's Peoples: A Popular Account of Their Bodily & Mental Characters by Augustus Henry Keane (1908)
"... CHAPTER V Mongolic OR YELLOW DIVISION Primeval Home, the Tibetan Plateau (p.)—Early Migratory Movements (p. 152) - The Akkado-Sumerians (p. ..."

5. The World's Peoples: A Popular Account of Their Bodily & Mental Characters by Augustus Henry Keane (1908)
"... CHAPTER V Mongolic OR YELLOW DIVISION Primeval Home, the Tibetan Plateau (p.)—Early Migratory Movements (p. 152)—The Akkado-Sumerians (p. ..."

6. Natural Religion: The Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the University of by Friedrich Max Müller (1889)
"The tribes speaking Samoyedic dialects are spread along the Yenisei and Ob rivers, and were pushed more and more North by their Mongolic successors. ..."

7. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain & Ireland by Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1893)
"The only known agglutinative and suffixing languages of Western Asia are Mongolic languages; and it appears inevitable that, if these principles of ..."

Other Resources: