Chakhar (ᠴᠠᠬᠠᠷ)

Chakhar is a variety of Mongolian spoken by about 100,000 people in the central region of Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region in the north of China, particularly in the Xilingol League and the Ulanqab region.

Chakhar is also known as Chahar Chaha'er, Chakhar or Qahar. Native speakers call it ᠴᠠᠬᠠᠷ (čaqar).

Mongolian alphabet for Chakhar

Notes

The letters are shown in their isolated, initial, medial and final forms (from top to bottom).
The letter sh and the letters from -er onwards (apart from wa) are used in names and Chinese loanwords

Download an alphabet chart for Chakhar (Excel)

Details of the Chakhar alphabet provided by Wolfram Siegel (PDF)

Links

Information about the Chakhar language
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chakhar_Mongolian
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tchakhar
https://www.ethnologue.com/language/mvf

Mongolic languages

Alasha, Barin, Buryat, Chakhar, Daur, Jarud, Kalmyk, Khamnigan Mongol, Khorchin, Mogholi, Mongolian, Monguor, Santa / Dongxiang

Languages written with the Latin alphabet

Page created: 20.01.22. Last modified: 20.01.22

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