About cardinal numbers of Manchu and Mongolian Монгол, манж хэлний үндсэн тооны нэрийн тухайд

Abstract

The comparative study ofnumeral is one ofthe most important work to investigate the relationship of the Altaic languages. Thus, I pretend to focus my attention on a comparative study of the Mongolian-Manchu cardinal numerals. The cardinal numeral's main structure is:
a. stem+suffix “ban” (or it's versions)
b. stem+suffix “r”+suffix “ban” (or it’s versions)
I think, an earlier original form of cardinal numerals can be reconstructed based on this general structure. For example, *ni-r-ben > mo. ni-gen, ma. emu. In my view, Manchu use Tibetan words for the numerals above 10000 which is definitely tranferred by Mongolian and this is demonstrate that Manchu-Tungus further Jurchen was under the deapest influence of Mongolian culture. Scholars who stand on the field of Non-Altaic theory use the numeral correnpondence of these languages to express serious doubts concerning the validity ofthe Altaic theory. As a result of my work, I concluded the greater part ofMongolian-Manchu numerals (more than 70 percent) have a genetic relationship, common structures and their evolution path is same in basically. And some of them such as Jurchen’s numeral “11 to 19“ is cause of Altaic language correspondence.