Wikidata:Lexicographical data/Documentation/Languages/mnc

language, modern language
Subclass of	Jurchenic
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

Language item

Manchu (Q33638)

Language code

mnc is used for words in Mongolian script. For Latin script, see below.

Lexical categories

Pronouns:

Not yet used:

postposition
suffix
conjunction
particle
interjection

Statements

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

manchu.work lexeme ID (P11275)

Nouns

Manchu 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

Personal 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

The 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

Adjectives have a single form with no grammatical features.

Adverbs

Adverbs have a single form with no grammatical features.

Numerals

numeral (Q63116) is currently used for cardinal numbers. They have a single form with no grammatical features.

Other types of numbers are not yet modelled.