Names of the Months in Middle Mongol

Volker Rybatzki

Names of the Months in Middle Mongol

(45th Meeting of the PIAC, Budapest 2002)

Middle Mongolian sources know several designations for the names of the months. Basically there exist three different systems of designation, reflecting indigenious and borrowed traditions. These denotations are examined on a linguistic background, taking into consideration also contemporary Turkic, as well as Modern Mongolic languages.