Khamnigan Mongol

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Khamnigan Mongol

Matthew Dryer, Mon, 2022-08-08 10:42
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A search for "Khamnigan Mongol" in Ethnologue leads to Evenki. But although Khamnigan Evenki is Evenki (a Tungus language), Khamnigan Mongol is a Mongolic language. See

Janhunen, Juha. (2003) Khamnigan Mongol. In Juha Janhunen (ed.), The Mongolic Languages (Routledge Family Series), 83-101. London & New York: Routledge.

where it says

Khamnigan Mongol is the Mongolic language spoken by the population known as the Khamnigan or the ‘Horse Tungus’ (also ‘Equestrian Tungus’ or ‘Steppe Tungus’) of Transbaikalia.

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Chuck Fennig, Wed, 2022-08-10 11:55

Dear Matthew,

Thank you for this information on Khamnigan Mongol as a separate Mongolic language. Glottolog also lists this as a language missing from the Ethnologue (https://glottolog.org/resource/languoid/id/kham1281).

As you may know, Ethnologue follows the ISO 639-3 Standard for language identification. Currently, there is no ISO reference code for Khamnigan Mongol. In order to rectify this, I will submit the change request forms to the ISO 639-3 Registrar in the next week or two in order to have Khamnigan Mongol recognized as being a separate language from Evenki [evn].

Best regards,

Chuck Fennig
Managing Editor, Ethnologue

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