Meaning of Mongolian | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A native or inhabitant of Mongolia.
   countable
2. A group of languages from Mongolia, specifically Khalkha, the official language of Mongolia.
   uncountable
3. A person of the mongoloid physical type.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The Cossac there, The Calmuc, and Mungalian, round the bales In crowds resort.”

“This day we saw some scattered tents of Mongalians, with their flocks.”

“The Mongolians are the most nomadic of populations.”

“Mongolians now regard animal husbandry as a low-status occupation.”

“Khalka […] Mongolian possesses seven vowels and twenty consonants.”

“The Altaic family […] comprises about 40 languages, classified into three groups: Turkic, Mongolian, and Manchu-Tungus.”

“These inscriptions are in Mongolian and thus widen the appliqué's international connections.”

“A particular individual which the latter considered a Mongolian and the former assures us is an Ethiopian.”

“She was found to be one of the type of white women whose nasal organs appear never to have been developed, and who take to the loathsome Mongolian and his filthy hovel as blithely as a plague rat to a sewer.”

“Extreme forms like the Australians, Negroes, Mongolians, and Europeans may be described as races because each has certain characteristics which set them off from other groups, and which are strictly hereditary.”

“The thesis of this work was that native Americans were one race distinct from Eskimos and Mongolians.”

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