| Also Known As: Tahuerh,Daguor,Dagur,Tahur,Dawo'er,Dawar,Daur,Daur language
Description:
The Daur or Dagur language is a Mongolic language primarily spoken by members of the Daur ethnic group.
Daur is a Mongolic language consisting of four dialects: Amur Daur in the vinicity of Heihe, the Nonni Daur on the west side of the Nonni River from south of Qiqihaer up to the Morin Dawa Daur Autonomous Banner, Hailar Daur to the south-east of Hailar and far off in Xinjiang in the vinicity of Tacheng. There is no written standard in use, although a Pinyin-based orthography has been devised; instead the Daur make use of Mongolian or Chinese, as most speakers know these languages as well.
Daur phonology is peculiar in that it has developed a set of labialized consonants (eg /sʷar/ 'flea' vs. /sar/ 'moon'), while it shares palatalized consonants with most Mongolian dialects that have not been developed in the other Mongolic languages. It also has /f/ which is, however, limited to loan words. Word-final short vowels were lost and historically short vowels in non-initial syllables have lost phoneme status. Daur is the only Mongolic language to share this development with Mongolian (ie Mongolian proper, Oirat, Buryat). Due to the merger of /ɔ/ and /ʊ/ with /o/ and /u/, vowel harmony..... full article at Wikipedia |
