Mongolian Dictionary and Phrasebook: Mongolian-English/English-Mongolian (Hippocrene Dictionary & Phrasebooks)

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Summary: Hippocrene-type, bad transcription
Review: It is a typical in the series, basic vocabulary both ways, basic grammar, and simple phrasebook. But the transcription is rather bad. Russian letter in Mongolian don't have Russian values. It's not "en" but "in" (e is very close). It's not dalai, is sound more like dahhleh (ai is open e). So called u is a close o, u with umlaut much like oo (that's what it says, but why is ue given in transcription). Z is dz but that is not marked either. Guess this language needs good phonetical description. I have Rutledge's tapes, but they are too fast.