Moghol grammar shows substantial influence from Persian languages, having borrowed even word classes not found in other Mongolic languages: the parts of speech are nouns, verbs, adjectives, pronouns, prepositions, adverbs and conjunctions.
Nouns are marked for number and case. Verbs are marked for person, number, tense-aspect and mode. Adjectives inflect for the comparative and superlative degree with the Persian suffixes -tar and -tariin, but not for number and case.
Phonology[]
Moghol's phonology is influenced by Tajik. It has a system of six vowel qualities with no length contrast: /i e a u o ɔ/.
| Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | voiceless | p | t | k | q | ʔ | |||
| voiced | b | d | g | ||||||
| Affricate | voiceless | t͡ʃ | |||||||
| voiced | d͡ʒ | ||||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | f | s | ʃ | h | ||||
| voiced | v | z | ʒ | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | |||||||
| Approximant | l | j | w | ||||||
| Trill | r | ʀ | |||||||