Mongolian Grammar

-The Mongolian word order is "subject-object-verb." To say, "I am going to the store" in Mongolian would be simply, "I store go” (www.koreanhistoryproject.org)
-There are no definite articles and the language “makes very little distinction between nouns and adjectives” (www.wikipedia.org)
-There are also no prepositions
-Mongolian nouns “have case, meaning that they change form to indicate their role in a sentence” (www.wikipedia.org)
-Eight cases exist including “nominative (marks the subject of a verb), genitive (possessive), dative (indicates the noun to whom something is given),
accusative(marks the direct object of the transitive verb), ablative (marks motion away from something), instrumental (noun is the instrument or means by or with which the subject achieves or accomplishes an action), comitative ( also called associative, it denotes companionship), and directional (indicates motion to a location)” (www.wikipedia.org)
-Mongolian nouns do not have gender
-One distinctive aspect of the Mongolian language is called vowel harmony
-Vowel harmony is “common in Turkish and Manchurian” (www.linguamongolia.co)
-The concept of vowel harmony “means that a word can only contain either back vowels (a, o, u) or front vowels (e, ö, ü), but not both at the same time, with the exception only of a certain limited amount of words” (www.linguamongolia.co)
-“I” is neutral and “can therefore occur in both front and back voweled words”
(www.linguamongolia.co)
-Vowel harmony “affects two sets of letters, γ/q and g/k, with the former being only in back-voweled words and the latter only in front-voweled words”
(www.linguamongolia.co)
-Mongolian is an agglutinative language where “words are often formed from simple roots combined with suffixes that extend or change the meaning” (www.wikipedia.org)