Reconstruction:Proto-Mongolic/bi

Reconstruction
Nugteren derives earlier by comparison with other first-person pronouns, but all descendants clearly derive from  and some authorities even reject *ï as a separate phoneme.

Etymology
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Whether this similarity is due to inheritance (now considered highly unlikely), borrowing or coincidence is a highly contentious question among specialists in these languages which is of crucial significance for the Altaic debate.

Pronoun

 * 1) I personal pronoun

Derived terms

 * *bi-da

Descendants

 * Mongolian:
 * Phags-Pa:
 * Arabic:
 * Chinese:
 * Chinese:


 * Central Mongolic:
 * Classical
 * Ordos: /bi/
 * Oirat:
 * South Mongolic:
 * Shirongolic:
 * Oirat:
 * South Mongolic:
 * Shirongolic:
 * Shirongolic:
 * Shirongolic: