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Khalkha, Khalka, n. and a.|ˈkɑːlkə|
[Native name.]
A. n.
a. One of a Mongol people in Outer Mongolia; the people themselves.
b. The language spoken by them.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to this people, their language, or the territory they inhabit.
1873Jrnl. R. Geogr. Soc. XLIII. 122 The K of Kuren being pronounced H by the Kalkas,..would leave a word having..a much greater affinity than many Chinese names have to those in use amongst the natives of the soil. 1876H. H. Howorth Hist. Mongols I. viii. 468 Lamaism had spread very greatly among the Mongols, and it was a subject of pride among the Khalkha chiefs to have a..regenerate Buddha among them. 1926A. N. J. Whymant Mongolian Gram. i. 1 The Khalka (or as it is generally spelt according to Russian orthography, Khalkha) Mongolian possesses seven vowels and twenty consonants. Ibid. 4 The Kalmuck presents consonantal difficulties over the Khalkha. Ibid. 5 A common word in all dialects of Mongolian is one mostly heard as chichik (a flower) among the Khalkhas. 1948D. Diringer Alphabet 318 The three principal [Mongolian] dialects, Khalkha, Kalmuck and Buriat. 1967D. S. Parlett Short Dict. Lang. 87 Modern literature based mainly on Khalkha dialect in an alphabet based on Cyrillic. 1970H. Elvin Incredible Mile xlviii. 132 If Bernard Shaw..had known as much about Mongolian costume as about English dialects..he could have told me..that blue and brown meant a Khalka,..that if a woman's sleeves had horizontal pleats they would be of a Khalka. |