Mongolian's Weird Phonology Explained

Just a few fun points bout the Mongolian language's phonology explained.

[Koreley]

That's such a nice a posteriori conlang!
Now, where'd you hid the actual mongolian language?

[parasitius]

I'll tell you exactly why I'm here. About 20 years ago I was in a dorm room during my exchange in Japan full of 4-5 Mongolian guys conversing. I was sitting just... listening. My jaw dropped. The most satanic language I've ever heard in my life, it truly sounded diabolical. I thought zOMG this would be the greatest death metal lyrics language ever created. I need to learn it and become a rock star who sings almost only in Mongolian.

[micheldesjardins]

Hey, Talarkhal is more like "to thank", the actual word for thank you is Bayarlalaa. Your accent is very good by the way

[jan_kisan]

For me, the most challenging part is differentiating between ө/өө and у/уу. Folks on YouTube demonstrate them one way, and it appears distinct enough, but then i ask a local to say words like 30 and 40, and i'm hearing the same vowel. like what the hell.

[Arviragus]

I've heard /g~ɢ/ pronounced as ɣ~ʁ in all back-vowel environments from a number of Outer Mongolian speakers. I'm only a beginner but I haven't found any words that are distinguished on /g/ vs /ɢ/, but /ɢ/ (and by extension ʁ) seem to just be allophones

[frank_calvert]

Loved finally having an explanation for parts of Mongolian I didn't understand, I would love for you to do more.

[topazbutterfly]

I really want to learn Mongolian fluently and become a Buddhist monk in Mongolia when I’m a lot older. At first, I was trying to use the phonology rules to pronounce it correctly, but then I realised that simply speeding through vowels and making it sound as natural as possible was the key. The diphtongs are a real problem, really. Like I really needed a phonetic transcription in order to figure out үй [ʉe̯] and уй [ʊe̯], while I still have no idea what ой [ɞe̯] is supposed to mean. Luckily enough, the Cyrillic script is quite straight forward, but the Mongol Bichig is a nightmare when trying to read anything.

[ChristianJiang]

I feel blessed that my YouTube homepage recommended this gem of a vid!! So basically there’s some vowel harmony going on in Mongolian, right?

[gargamel]

The best feature of Mongolian is the ɮ.

[abarette_]

don't forget to submit it this year!

[Shareenear]

Mongolian is like evil Kalmyk 'cause in Kalmyk it's the other way around: a lot of consonants in a row are written but there are vowels between them that are not written lol

[gregorygreif]

Great video! What advice do you have for someone who wants to learn to speak Mongolian accurately but has little to no linguistic background? Талархал!

[Xnoob]

As soon as you got to the consonants part I was like: hey is this inspired by jan Misali

[shadowxthevampiressofficial]

This language sounds like it was made by Stitch's people

[aidanmokalla]

Did you meant to say "allophones" as 3:30?

[Pining_for_the_fjords]

Is there any reason Mongolian sounds a little like Greenlandic? Is it just coincidence or are they distantly related?

[lingandetyrox]

Are you a native Mongolian? Fungmat Khan

[Seagull]

The only weird thing is the obnoxious presenter.