- From: Badral S. <badral@bolorsoft.com>
- Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2015 12:23:24 +0200
- To: public-i18n-mongolian@w3.org
Hi Greg, On 10.08.2015 05:35, Greg Eck wrote: > Badral, Erdenchimeg, Husele, Siqin, > Would you like to comment on this one? > Greg >> The word needs to be led by an O in order to be followed by an O. > In Inner Mongolia, there is one rule in some famous dictionary, the O is not used after first Syllable. > It is only used in first Syllable. It's difficult to answer with YES or NO. I have learned at school that this rule is valid for native Mongolian words, so that we should pronounce O after first syllable as U, OE as UE. For loan or foreign words it is invalid. > But it is the endless linguistic argument actually. > We cannot say which is correct and which is incorrect. > That is one reason, why there are so many different spelling. > > Regards, > > Jirimutu > ========================================================== > Almas Inc. > 101-0021 601 Nitto-Bldg, 6-15-11, Soto-Kanda, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo > E-Mail: jrmt@almas.co.jp Mobile : 090-6174-6115 > Phone : 03-5688-2081, Fax : 03-5688-2082 > http://www.almas.co.jp/ http://www.compiere-japan.com/ > ========================================================== > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Greg Eck [mailto:greck@postone.net] > Sent: Monday, August 10, 2015 12:12 PM > To: Richard Wordingham; public-i18n-mongolian@w3.org > Subject: RE: Guessing the Spelling (was: FVS Assignment MisMatch Winding Down) > > In the word ABU, rules of vowel harmony will demand that the following gedes (ie loop) is a U and not the weaker O. > The word needs to be led by an O in order to be followed by an O. > Greg > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Wordingham [mailto:richard.wordingham@ntlworld.com] > Sent: Sunday, August 9, 2015 3:44 PM > To: public-i18n-mongolian@w3.org > Subject: OT: Guessing the Spelling (was: FVS Assignment MisMatch Winding Down) > > On Fri, 7 Aug 2015 13:32:04 +0000 > Greg Eck <greck@postone.net> wrote: > >> On the issue of spelling ABU “father” as mentioned below, there is no >> question in the Cyrillic as to the proper spelling. I do not have the >> experience in Inner Mongolia why there is such a variety of opinions. > As far as I can make out, knowing the Cyrillic spelling (аав) and knowing what the Mongolian script spelling looks like still leaves one with two alternatives - O and U. Are people missing an obvious clue as to the spelling? > > Richard. > > -- Badral Sanlig, Software architect www.bolorsoft.com | www.badral.net Bolorsoft LLC, Selbe Khotkhon 40/4 D2, District 11, Ulaanbaatar
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