The Manchu language is a language of the family toungouse of the altaïques Langues, today almost extinct (less than one hundred speakers). It had a great historical importance since it was the Official language of the Manchu dynasty (Qing) which reigned in China. She is also spoken by a not-Manchu population moved by an emperor about the Dynastie Qing (Xibo??). The Manchu language knows neither the definite article, nor grammatical kinds; but it has signs to distinguish the numbers, and indicates the cases using particles Affixe S or isolated. The conjugation, very simple, points out that of the Mongolian . In the verbs, the requirement is the topic or radical in a pure state: syllabic affixes, placed following this topic, are used to mark times, the modes and the voices. There are active voices, passivates negative, reciprocal, inchoative, frequentative, etc Instead of prepositions, mandchou has postpositions. The inverse order dominates in the construction industry: the subject of the proposal is expressed initially, the adjective precedes the substantive, the direct object comes only after the indirect object, and the verb finishes the sentence. This order is rigorously followed.
The pronunciation of mandchou is, in general soft and harmonious. The Manchus did not have a writing until the 17th century of our era, and, consequently, not of books: A Manchu scientist Takhai, composed, by order of the emperor Huang-Taiji, a writing imitated of that of the Mongolian , and whose syllabic groups, very many, are reduced to 24 primitive characters, including 6 vowels and 18 consonants. It is with this writing that one translated into mandchou the majority of the Chinese books.
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