Jan-Olof Svantesson is Professor of General Linguistics at Lund University. His work has focussed on the phonology of Mongolian and on the Mon-Khmer language Kammu.Anna Tsendina is a Senior Researcher at the Oriental Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. She is a native speaker of Mongolian and an expert on Old Mongolian texts.Anastasia Karlsson is a doctoral research student in phonetics at Lund University. Her research is focused on prosody and rhythm in Mongolian.After a long career in nursing, Vivan Franzen became a doctoral student in general linguistics at Lund University. She was also involved in a project on bilingual education in Finland. Vivan Franzen died in 2004.

a ripe source for interested researchers.

• 1. Vowels ; 2. Consonants ; 3. Phonemes ; 4. Writing Systems ; 5. Phonological Processes ; 6. Syllabification and Epenthesis ; 7. Prosody ; 8. Old Mongolian ; 9. The Mongolic Languages ; 10. Development of the Modern Mongolic Languages ; Appendices ; References ; Index ; Index of Old Mongolian Words