Wikidata:Lexicographical data/Documentation/Languages/mnc
Subclass of | Jurchenic |
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Native label | ᠮᠠᠨᠵᡠ ᡤᡳᠰᡠᠨ |
Country | People's Republic of China |
Linguistic typology | subject–object–verb, agglutinative language |
Has grammatical case | identical case, revertive case, orientative case, initiative case |
Writing system | Manchu alphabet, Mongolian |
Ethnologue language status | 8b Nearly Extinct |
Described at URL | http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/12/world/asia/china-xinjiang-manchu-xibe-language.html, http://cn.nytimes.com/china/20160112/c12manchu/ |
Wikimedia Incubator URL | https://incubator.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wp/mnc |
Wikimedia language code | mnc |
This is an outline of how Manchu lexemes are currently modelled.
General
editLanguage item
editLanguage code
edit- mnc is used for words in Mongolian script. For Latin script, see below.
Lexical categories
edit- noun (Q1084)
- verb (Q24905)
- adjective (Q34698)
- adverb (Q380057)
- proper noun (Q147276)
- numeral (Q63116)
Pronouns:
Not yet used:
- postposition
- suffix
- conjunction
- particle
- interjection
Statements
edit- All forms should have Möllendorff transliteration (P5139). This should contain the word in Latin script following the Möllendorff system (using "ū" for ᡡ and "š" for ᡧ).
External IDs
editNouns
editManchu does not generally distinguish singular and plural, so most nouns (including proper nouns) have a single form with no grammatical features.
A small number of nouns, typically referring to people, have a plural form created using a suffix. In these cases, singular (Q110786) and plural (Q146786) are used as grammatical features.
Cases are formed using case suffixes. These are not currently entered as forms since it's unclear whether they should be treated as declensions or postpositions.
Pronouns
editPersonal pronouns have five forms, using nominative case (Q131105), genitive case (Q146233), dative case (Q145599), accusative case (Q146078) and ablative case (Q156986) respectively as the grammatical features.
They also have the following statements:
- grammatical person (P11053) with one of first person (Q21714344), second person (Q51929049) or third person (Q51929074) as the value
- grammatical number (P11054) with one of singular (Q110786) or plural (Q146786) as the value
Other types of pronouns are not yet consistently modelled.
Verbs
editThe modelling of verbs is very incomplete.
Current status: Most verbs only have a single form with the -mbi form of the verb and no grammatical features. A few verbs have forms using imperative (Q22716), preterite (Q442485) or future tense (Q501405) as grammatical features.
Adjectives
editAdjectives have a single form with no grammatical features.
Adverbs
editAdverbs have a single form with no grammatical features.
Numerals
editnumeral (Q63116) is currently used for cardinal numbers. They have a single form with no grammatical features.
Other types of numbers are not yet modelled.